value stream

The activities done from beginning to end for a specific product or service in order to provide business value.

— Making Work Visible, Second Edition, Dominica Degrandis

the end-to-end set of activities performed to deliver value to a customer for a product or service. At larger organizations, a value stream tends to span multiple teams, specialists, processes, and tools.

— Project to Product, Mik Kersten

An integrated series of activities designed to deliver a specific outcome for a customer who might be the final consumer, stakeholder, or user. This stream encapsulates the journey of work from initial need to the delivery of value.

— Flow Engineering, Steve Pereira and Andrew Davis

Value Stream: The end-to-end sets of activities performed by teams of people and agents to deliver outcomes to customers and other stakeholders

— Output to Outcome, in “Introduction”, Mik Kersten

The value stream is basically a sequence or a stream of activities from end to end that start from some trigger point and go to some value at the end

— John Ediger · Attacking the Fuzzy-Front-End of Value Streams, Las Vegas 2020 · at 9:59

It's essentially a developer journey, an engineering journey for any of these things, and that's what we mean when we say value stream. It's not just the pipeline.

— Klaudia Breslavets, Scott Kellerman · Driving DevSecOps Transformation by Clearing Speed Bumps, Las Vegas 2019 · at 29:41

a series of interconnected steps that allow you to deliver value, whatever that value might be, to your end user or your customer

— Saahil Panikar, Lindy Quick · How Your Value Stream Management Practices Enable DevOps and Data-Driven Organizational Strategy, Europe 2021 · at 2:48

A value stream is a long-lived team of teams aligned to a bounded context of value with value consumers.

— Jon Smart · Organizing for Outcomes, Amsterdam 2023 · at 20:37