Continuous Improvement

How Value Stream Mapping can speed up your cycle time from years to weeks

Explore Value-Stream-Mapping to optimize your development process and enhance team efficiency.

Matthias Marschall

May 30, 2013 • 5 min read

Intermediate

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Continuous Improvement Strategies

Holistic Approaches

System Interdependencies

Waste Reduction

Workflow Improvement

Summary

Discover how the Apollo 13 mission's holistic approach to problem-solving can inspire your development process. By focusing on the entire system rather than individual faults, you can identify inefficiencies and improve productivity. Value-Stream-Mapping is a lean technique that visualizes the development cycle, helping teams pinpoint and reduce waste. Engage your team in this process to foster collaboration, reduce release cycles, and enhance product delivery. Start optimizing your workflow today.

Takeaways

Continuous improvement leads to better quality and customer satisfaction.
Focus on the entire system rather than individual blame to improve processes.
Involve all stakeholders to collaboratively identify and eliminate waste.
Transition to shorter, more frequent release cycles for better efficiency.
Use Value-Stream-Mapping to visualize and optimize the development cycle.
The Value-Stream-Mapping technique easily helps identify waste in a system by looking at the holistic representation of your complete development cycle in visual presentation.
Value-Stream-Mapping can help you shift your focus from fixing individual shortcomings to optimizing the entire system. Thus, during the development process, focus on the whole system instead of blaming each other for the slow releases of new features.
Value-Stream-Mapping is a lean technique, It visualizes the whole process from idea to customer release as a series of connected tasks. Both value and non-value-adding tasks should be defined and tracked from customer requirement to delivery.