Value stream mapping (VSM) is a structured technique that helps businesses visualize their processes to identify and improve steps in delivering products or services that meet customer demands. It fosters a customer-centric approach, enabling teams to address pain points and enhance efficiency through collaboration. By defining clear roles and objectives, VSM promotes a unified perspective among team members, ultimately leading to improved product quality and market competitiveness.

1. What are Value Stream Mapping and its benefits,
process and value?

2. ● One of the key challenges of almost all businesses, whether they belong to a production
or service industry, the face is to come up with a product or service that customers
want.
● Businesses always leave no stones unturned to offer the best quality product without
any errors or bugs, by employing the IT test environment management, to lure
customers and to win their trust and loyalty.
● Before we dive into what value stream mapping is, let's understand what a Value
Stream is. If we go by definition, a series of steps identified by the company to provide
the product or service their customers want or need.
● Value stream mapping helps companies by offering a structured visualisation of these
key steps and communicating and corresponding data among the team members to
understand the needs and to make product or service improvements to finally deliver a
product that serves the core purpose.
● It is a technique that documents, analyses and improves the whole process by sharing
information and materials to produce better service or product for customers.

3. What are the benefits of a value stream mapping?

4. ● The cut-throat competition requires enterprises and businesses to come up with products
and services that add some value to the customers by offering them a sense of
gratification.
● A value stream mapping helps to identify and address those pain points customers face in
their day-to-day lives and by offering a solution that meets the customer demands, you can
get a competitive edge over others.
● It is a customer-centric process that helps team members to identify what their customers
want. Even during the IT test environment management stage, this customer-centric
process will help team members to identify issues and errors that make customers unhappy
and irritated.
● You can add a customer's perspective in the production process to make it more efficient,
valuable and useful for your end-users who are going to use the final product or service.
● It gives leaders, team members and other stakeholders a more holistic approach towards
the process and their roles to achieve the end goal, rather than those stereotyped,
bookish predefined roles.
● Everyone can step out from their comfort zones and contribute to the process to make it
more valuable and useful.

5. ● A unified and holistic view that the value stream mapping offers to the process will help
team members to be on the same page rather than disoriented and confused.
● They will have their predefined roles and responsibilities and there will be no scope for
any irregularities, issues and concerns among the teams. Each team will be able to align
with others as their roles are defined perfectly.
The value stream mapping process

6. Define your focus
What exactly you want to achieve through a value stream mapping is the first question you
need to answer. Identify all the steps, a process and the scope of the process to be mapped.
Some of the objectives are efficiency, product or service quality, compliance to the
government regulations and speed or velocity.
Select your team
To meet all the predefined objectives, you need to form a team which might consist of an
owner, scrum master, pipeline engineer, IT test environment management member,
architect, development manager, test manager and the release manager. Choose your team
smartly to make the value stream mapping process more efficient and accurate.
Define the process
Meet all the team members with a customer mindset and know what they can do, how they
do, understand the process, what are the dos and don'ts for them to develop a unified and
holistic approach and perspective for the process.

7. Define the basic value stream
Outline all the process basic and design a rudimentary VSM to get a start point for the team.
It will give you a team rough ideas about the process, steps and objectives.
Team mapping activity
A team mapping activity will give your team members a chance to put their thoughts and
ideas on the table and you will be able to understand their point of views and opinions
related to the VSM.
Develop your target state value stream map
Once a basic VSM is carefully defined, you need to develop a Target State Value Stream Map
which clearly shows a target where you want to end up. It might be government regulations
compliance, quality-focused metrics and others.

8. Develop your future state value stream map
You need to use your current state VSM to develop the Future State Value Stream Map by
identifying pain points, bottlenecks, strengths, weaknesses and other backlogs. Once the
Future State Value Stream Map is defined, your team members can start working on holistic
improvements to the process.
Conclusion
The value stream mapping is a holistic and unified approach to develop customer-centric
products and services. Design a product or service of the customer's choice and ensure its
quality and efficiency with the IT Test Environment Management and rule the market.

9. Contact Us
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Contact Person : Ashley Hosking
Address : Level 5, 14 Martin Place, Sydney, 2000, New South Wales,
Australia
Email : enov8australia@gmail.com
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