VSM Implementation Services

If you're on a journey, you need to know where you're starting from and where you want to end up. Our VSM Assessment, built by our consulting huddle, measures each of your team's current capabilities and plots their route forward.

Organizations must design their value stream architecture by discovering their value stream network. We use Team Topologies as a pattern language and graph theory as a tool for analysis to establish a Value Stream Reference Architecture (VSRA) to optimize for value delivery by reasoning about the four fundamental dimensions of knowledge workflow. Once you have the architecture designed, you are set up to understand the organizational design implications of adopting VSM and can easily establish where the highest-yielding opportunities lie.

When organizations align around value streams, product managers must re-align their data. They'll take the raw data from multiple sources—the PPM, general ledger, CMDB, business plans, agile tools, etc.) and align the data with the products consuming these resources and assets. This task is very time-consuming and extremely daunting for the uninitiated, but we have an automation solution that removes the pain of reworking your models.

The goal is to create a fully costed end-to-end value stream to which the PM can apply flow optimization practices and measure team and organization performance improvement.

We can help you build an integrated model of a digital product on an ongoing basis. This can be done for a single product manager’s set of products, or the entire portfolio of products can be realigned into an integrated model.

Once a product cost and value baseline is in place, many tried-and-true product management and VSM techniques can be applied around scenario modeling, pricing, relative contribution, etc.

When you embark on any change program, it's imperative that your key decision-makers are on the same page. An Executive Alignment Workshop takes your team through a step by step process to ensure everyone is confident about why Value Stream Management is the right path, the outcomes expected and how you are mobilizing the organization to reach them.

Helping all the individuals in all of the teams across your organization understand what's possible with VSM and know enough to begin experimenting to experience success takes effort. From introductory virtual lunch and learn or 'brown bag' sessions to multi-day deep-dive classroom-based learning, from foundation to expert practitioner level certifications, we've got you covered and can customize what we deliver in line with your organization's unique needs.

VSM seeks to cross traditional silos and flatten hierarchical organizations, so it's essential to see who governs what and why. Mapping your stakeholders helps you organize around your value streams, visualize your value stream network and prioritize where to expend your effort.

Mapping value streams is the classic way to optimize for flow; getting it right from the start is important. Expert facilitators accelerate the process and ensure the outputs drive your desired outcomes.

Flow Engineering is a lightweight, collaborative program for improving the flow of work across organizations. It works remarkably well regardless of scale or industry. It starts with alignment and focuses on a valuable target outcome. Flow is understood by mapping current-state value streams and analyzing dependencies. Then, flow is improved by building a future-state map and creating an actionable roadmap for achieving your future-state targets, including owners and measures of progress. Flow Engineering makes Value Stream Mapping efficient, effective, and valuable.

If you want to view real-time data for your value stream's performance, you will need a VSM platform. We can help you implement the tools that you need to gather the right data, set up the right reports and be confident that what you monitor is the reality of your situation and make the right business decisions.