We advance value stream-centric ways of working in technology teams.

The next generation of DevOps.

Harness Value Stream Management to Optimize Flow and Supercharge Your Organization

Value stream management means you connect from idea to value realization, integrating your DevOps toolchain end-to-end and gain unparalleled insights into what's happening when your teams are delivering value outcomes to your customers. At the Value Stream Management Consortium, we are dedicated to making this a standard way of working to ensure that all organizations can make the most of what they have.

Introducing Flowtopia 2022

The Value Stream Management Consortium’s inaugural, flagship, in-person event is happening on 17th October 2022

The State of Value Stream Management Report 2022 is here!

Download your copy and learn how people are adopting value stream management practices below.

The State of Value Stream Management Report 2022 is here!

Download your copy and learn how people are adopting value stream management practices below.

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Measuring Organizational Improvement

We know that DevOps principles create higher-performing organizations but it's hard to know what's improving when. When your organizations are built from silos and data is buried, conversations are opinion driven. Thinking and working as value streams means teams obsess about the value their work creates to the customer and that they can measure how their experiments accelerate its flow to be realized in the hands of the customer.

Measuring Organizational Improvement

Founding Members of the Value Stream Management Consortium

Our Board of Directors

Anand Ahire

Head of Product Management - DevOps at ServiceNow

Before ServiceNow, Anand was a VP and GM at Electric Cloud which was acquired by Cloudbees. He led the product management for ElectricFlow Deploy and Release (in the DevOps, CI/CD market). Before that, he has led various products at BMC Software. He holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a Bachelor of Engineering from the College of Engineering Pune.

Sejal Amin

Chief Technology Officer at Shutterstock

Sejal is a senior product development executive experienced in leading teams through significant cultural, operational, and technology transformations for global product developments and portfolios of large size and complexity. Recently, she was Chief Product and Technology Officer for Khoros. Just prior to that, she was CTO for the Thomson Reuters Tax and Accounting Tax Professionals Business.

Helen Beal

Chair

Helen Beal is a DevOps coach and strategic advisor. She is co-chair of the OASIS Value Stream Management Interoperability Technical Committee and Chief Ambassador at DevOps Institute. She hosts the BrightTalk Day-to-Day DevOps webinar series and is an InfoQ DevOps editor. She is listed in TechBeacon’s DevOps Top100 lists and won Top DevOps Evangelist 2020 in the DevOps Dozen awards.

Bob Davis

Chief Marketing Officer at Plutora

Bob is a management and marketing executive with experience leading high technology companies - from emerging start-ups to Global 500 corporations. Beginning his career as an engineer at Intel, Bob quickly became interested in how technologies and ultimately products were used to propel company growth. He got his MBA from Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business.

Jesse DePriest

Lean Leadership and Transformation Coach at DePriest Consulting

Jesse is a lean / six sigma black belt with experience in varied industries and roles with a passion for helping leaders and their teams do their work better - with a spirit of Serious Joy. Jesse has a BS in Mechanical Engineering, MS in Operations Management, and an MBA. He also served eight years in the US Army and is dedicated to working in lean leadership and transformation.

Jeff Keyes

VP of Product, Atlassian

Jeff has spent his career writing code, designing software features and UI, running dev and test teams, and consulting. Outside of six years at Microsoft, he has been primarily focused on growing startup companies. He has extensive experience in product marketing. Jeff holds degrees in electrical engineering from Brigham Young University and the University of Washington.

Laureen Knudsen

Chief Transformation Officer at Broadcom

Laureen works with industry leaders and experts to define the future of business and bring Lean principles to all of an organization, focusing on optimizing end-to-end value stream flows, removing waste, and ensuring executives can make data-driven decisions. She's noted as a 2021 Top 100 Women in Technology, listed in Power50, and is a Forbes Technology Council Member.

Ted Sapountzis

GVP Product Marketing, Planview

Ted joined Planview through the Tasktop acquisition, where he was the CMO. He is an enterprise software veteran, champion of data-driven practices, and lifelong analytics student who started out optimizing networks at American Airlines. He holds an M.S. in Operations Research from Stanford University and a B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Colgate University.

Florian Schouten

VP Product Management, VSI and Platform at Digital.ai

Florian has spent his career in and around software organizations in a variety of technical and product leadership roles, at both startups and very large companies. He is especially passionate about the use of metrics AI/ML to improve outcomes in complex, enterprise-scale processes. Florian holds Master’s degrees from Tilburg University and Delft University of Technology.

Al Wagner

Solution Architect, HCL Software

Al Wagner is a DevOps enthusiast with practical field experience in development roles driving thought leadership, strategic initiatives, and tangible solutions around DevOps and continuous delivery. Al has published many papers and books including Application Release and Deployment For Dummies, Continuous Testing For Dummies, and Service Virtualization For Dummies.

Anand Ahire

Head of Product Management - DevOps at ServiceNow

Before ServiceNow, Anand was a VP and GM at Electric Cloud which was acquired by Cloudbees. He led the product management for ElectricFlow Deploy and Release (in the DevOps, CI/CD market). Before that, he has led various products at BMC Software. He holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a Bachelor of Engineering from the College of Engineering Pune.
Sejal Amin

Chief Technology Officer at Shutterstock

Sejal is a senior product development executive experienced in leading teams through significant cultural, operational, and technology transformations for global product developments and portfolios of large size and complexity. Recently, she was Chief Product and Technology Officer for Khoros. Just prior to that, she was CTO for the Thomson Reuters Tax and Accounting Tax Professionals Business.
Helen Beal

Chair

Helen Beal is a DevOps coach and strategic advisor. She is co-chair of the OASIS Value Stream Management Interoperability Technical Committee and Chief Ambassador at DevOps Institute. She hosts the BrightTalk Day-to-Day DevOps webinar series and is an InfoQ DevOps editor. She is listed in TechBeacon’s DevOps Top100 lists and won Top DevOps Evangelist 2020 in the DevOps Dozen awards.
Bob Davis

Chief Marketing Officer at Plutora

Bob is a management and marketing executive with experience leading high technology companies - from emerging start-ups to Global 500 corporations. Beginning his career as an engineer at Intel, Bob quickly became interested in how technologies and ultimately products were used to propel company growth. He got his MBA from Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business.
Jesse DePriest

Lean Leadership and Transformation Coach at DePriest Consulting

Jesse is a lean / six sigma black belt with experience in varied industries and roles with a passion for helping leaders and their teams do their work better - with a spirit of Serious Joy. Jesse has a BS in Mechanical Engineering, MS in Operations Management, and an MBA. He also served eight years in the US Army and is dedicated to working in lean leadership and transformation.
Jeff Keyes

VP of Product, Atlassian

Jeff has spent his career writing code, designing software features and UI, running dev and test teams, and consulting. Outside of six years at Microsoft, he has been primarily focused on growing startup companies. He has extensive experience in product marketing. Jeff holds degrees in electrical engineering from Brigham Young University and the University of Washington.
Laureen Knudsen

Chief Transformation Officer at Broadcom

Laureen works with industry leaders and experts to define the future of business and bring Lean principles to all of an organization, focusing on optimizing end-to-end value stream flows, removing waste, and ensuring executives can make data-driven decisions. She's noted as a 2021 Top 100 Women in Technology, listed in Power50, and is a Forbes Technology Council Member.
Ted Sapountzis

GVP Product Marketing, Planview

Ted joined Planview through the Tasktop acquisition, where he was the CMO. He is an enterprise software veteran, champion of data-driven practices, and lifelong analytics student who started out optimizing networks at American Airlines. He holds an M.S. in Operations Research from Stanford University and a B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Colgate University.
Florian Schouten

VP Product Management, VSI and Platform at Digital.ai

Florian has spent his career in and around software organizations in a variety of technical and product leadership roles, at both startups and very large companies. He is especially passionate about the use of metrics AI/ML to improve outcomes in complex, enterprise-scale processes. Florian holds Master’s degrees from Tilburg University and Delft University of Technology.
Al Wagner

Solution Architect, HCL Software

Al Wagner is a DevOps enthusiast with practical field experience in development roles driving thought leadership, strategic initiatives, and tangible solutions around DevOps and continuous delivery. Al has published many papers and books including Application Release and Deployment For Dummies, Continuous Testing For Dummies, and Service Virtualization For Dummies.

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