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Delivery Management

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

Making waste visible in the development process with a visual representation to engage your team into making clear improvements.

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Matthias Marschall
May 30, 2013 • 4 min read
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Delivery Management
Kanban Systems
Process Optimization
Eliminate Waste
Value-Stream Mapping

Takeaways

  • 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.

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