value stream mapping

5 of our books and 1 talk define this term — and their definitions are worth reading side by side.

an activity that maps out the whole legacy transformation to support a process including contextual information such as timings, tooling, and other actors.

— DevOps for the Modern Enterprise, Mirco Hering

value stream mapping, a way of measuring wait states and flow efficiency

— Overcoming Transformation Challenges, in the text, Leanne Harper, George Kraniotis, Kamran Kazempour & Sam Yeats

Value stream mapping is a highly effective mapping technique that will help you identify true bottlenecks and waste in your end-to-end delivery processes

— Winning Together, in the text, Dominica DeGrandis, Ana E. Torres, Elisabeth Hendrickson, Levi Geinert & Jeffrey Fredrick

an excellent way of looking at how are things going right now, what's involved, who's doing what, and how is it going, so that we can take all of our capabilities, all of our efforts, and focus them on a constraint

— Steve Pereira, Andrew Davis · Leading from the Middle, Europe 2022 · at 16:45

See also stream · Value · value stream · Flow Efficiency · aged work · behavioral ninja move

Filed under Flow & Lean

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