Strong Value Streams communicate their products and services in a way that is understandable and desirable by their c...

A strong Value Stream has a clear understanding of customer purpose and service level expectations.

Strong Value Streams understand their fitness level in relation to customer purpose and expectations.

A strong Value Stream must have a clear understanding of who its customers and stakeholders are.

Sensing complex adaptive systems such as Value Streams can be tricky.

Using too many metrics creates noise, which distracts you. Using too little, you might miss critical health indicators.

Strong Value Streams have a clear and explicit set of policies to govern and manage their work.

The policies dictate what should happen in different scenarios to ensure the work moves smoothly through the Value Stream, preserving predictability and flow.

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Arguably, value derives from the perception of non-functional quality.

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Forecasting units vs batches.

➙ When forecasting batches of work, you can use Monte Carlo Simulation leveraging delivery rate as input. ➙ When forecasting individual items, you can calculate the Estimated Time of Delivery (ETD), leveraging historical and real-time cycle time information.

Inappropriate batch-size and uncontrolled WIP leads to stale work.

As a result, waiting time goes up, flow efficiency goes down, lead time expands. Windows of opportunities close.

12min of pure wisdom from Dr Ackoff.

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real-time, data-driven governance

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"Improving flow is the most important objective of production" Eliyahu M.

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Which types of analysis can you leverage today to improve delivery governance, delivery management and continuous imp...

We've been building pretty exciting analytics engines at Flomatika, including forecasting and AI-Powered Insights.

How do you visualise Flow Debt today?

If your Value Stream consistently operates with expedites, some work will be completed much sooner than it would otherwise. Who is paying for that?

Making explicit these three key points in your Value Stream is vital to start managing and optimising flow.

→ When ARRIVAL consistently exceeds DEPARTURE, your inventory grows. → When COMMITMENT consistently exceeds DEPARTURE, your WIP grows.

Here is my compilation of Value Stream's top sources of delay and waste.

Which one is hurting you more today? What have I missed?

Connect someone with a need; to a product or service provider that can fulfil it.

Voila! There you have a Value Stream.

I've been studying the flow efficiency of knowledge-work teams for the last six years.

Last week I shared at Kanban Brazil my heuristics on the flow efficiency ranges, and it has been driving great discussions. What's your team's flow efficiency?

This month the inaugural edition of the State of Value Stream Management Report was released.

The report discusses a set of requirements deemed necessary to get the value stream-centric thinking and move towards value stream management. Those requirements are related to your organisational design and ways of working.

Last Friday, the VSM Consortium released the first State of Value Stream Management Report, which, among other things...

One point the report makes is that organisations often believe they are not mature enough for value stream management. In my experience over the past several years working with organisations to optimise their value streams, I find this to be true, but it need not be a blocker.

Flomatika is a fully remote, globally distributed team.

Loving the high-quality coloured illustrations.

I'm so grateful!

This year my books varied widely from business to philosophy and psychology to well being. Check it out!

“Families are the nest where good citizens are formed and people are taught the power of love.”

A snippet from my son’s speech at school this week about the impact of screen time on families and society. It strikes me really hard and I thought I’d share that reflection with you.