If DevOps is the jelly in a pb&j sandwich, what is vsm

1. Images goes here
Peanut butter and jelly sandwich and
Value Stream Management...
Are you okay Lance?
What???
Lance Knight
COO ConnectALL

2. If DevOps is the jelly
in a PB&J, what is
Value Stream
Management?

3. I asked some people.
And this what they
had to say!
It is the
making of
the
sandwich
It is the
colour of
the toast
The knife, to
make sure
that DevOps
goes on
smoothly
Agile is the Peanut Butter
and VSM is the bread. The
bread is what ties both of
those key elements
together. Topped off with
a tall glass of milk, which is
successful digital
transformation.
It is the
plate
It is the
texture and
crispiness
of the toast Peanut
butter?
The
berries in
the jelly?

4. PB&J Maker

5. Let's answer some other
questions first

6. What is value stream management?
Value stream management is a lean
business practice that helps determine the
value of software development and delivery
efforts and resources. It also helps to
improve the flow of value to the
organization, while managing and monitoring
the software delivery life cycle from
end-to-end.
Customer
Planning Design Development Testing
Feature Request Deploy to Production
Deploy
Business

7. Who is a Value Stream Manager?
A value stream manager is responsible to increase value flow across the value stream, eliminate waste, monitor
and make suggestions.
A value stream manager will use best of lean principles to:
● Create a current state value stream map of the end-to-end value stream(s).
● Use lean techniques to eliminate waste and improve process value in the short to mid-term.
● Conduct fact-based analysis of the current state map(s).
● Prepare a future state map showing what the value stream could look like in the long term.
● Create a plan to achieve the future state and lead the implementation of the plan.
● Lead and mobilize the people inside and outside of the value stream to enable the required changes.
● Lead the day-to-day activities within the value stream to ensure that current commitments are achieved
while improvements are being made.

8. A Value Stream Manager uses two
popular Lean Practice
Systems
Thinking
Lean
Thinking

9. Lean Principles
Identify Value
Map the Value Stream
Create Flow
Establish Pull
Seek Perfection
5 Principles
Customer Satisfaction
Employee Satisfaction
Stability
Jidoka
Just in
time Continuous
Improvement
JIT (GO)
● 5S
● Setup
● Kanban
● Cells
● Flow
Jidoka (Stop)
● Andon
● Visuals
● Poka Yoke
● Operator
● Inspections
Reduced Variation
● Level Production
Standard Work
● Kaizen

10. 8 Area of Waste Reduction
Motion
Overproduction
Talent
Transportation
Inventory
Defects
Waiting
Overprocessing

11. Let’s talk about VSM through the lens of
making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
MRP
Production
Control
Weekly
Forecast
Supplier
Monthly
Forecast
Daily
Order
Customer
Peanut Butter
Application
Jelly Application Packaging Shopping
Total C/T = 25 secs Total C/T = 30 secs Total C/T = 42 secs
1 day
25 Secs
0.513 days
30 Secs
0.694 days
42 Secs
0.183 days
VA/ T = 97 secs
PLT = 2.39 days
PCE = 0.15%
700
pcs
359
pcs
486
pcs
128
pcs
Daily Schedule
!
! ! !

12. VSM Metrics

13. Systems thinking

14. Systems Thinking
Interconnectedness
Synthesis
Emergence
Feedback Loops
Causality
Systems Mapping
Interconnect
edness Synthesis
Emergence
System
Mapping
Delivery
Feedback
Loops
Causality
Reinforcing
feedback
Balancing
feedback
The 6 Fundamental Concepts of Systems Thinking

15. Example of a system: A Toaster
Timer Level
INPUT
Bread Color
OUTPUT
System Element
Heating element, Spring, Bread rack, Heat sensor, Timing mechanism/browning control= regulating
knob, calibrating spindle, Electromagnet, Nuts, Bolt, Toaster shell, size of the bread, golden brown
toasted bread

16. Great Lance, what does all this have to do
with Software Development anyway?
By 2023, 70% of organizations will use value stream management to
improve flow in the DevOps pipeline, leading to faster delivery of
customer value. Gartner
“The other 30% will have a totally unmanaged value stream? Or, they
are, and don’t realize it? Ad-hoc and unintentional?” — Andrew
Fuqua, VP of Products, ConnectALL
Value Stream Management is “a combination of process, people, and
technology that maps, optimizes, visualizes, and governs business value
flow (including epics, stories, work items) through heterogeneous
enterprise software delivery pipelines.” — Christopher Condo, Principal
Analyst, Forrester stated at the 2020 Virtual VSM DevCon
“From 2019 onward, businesses will more regularly look in on their IT
processes to determine if what they’re doing drives value for the
business. It’s not enough to simply create a great application. If
people aren’t using it, or are getting to a certain point and then
bailing, that’s not delivering value.” — SDTimes declared 2019 as the
year of the value stream
Customers expect a digital
experience across all aspects of
your business.
Self-service is the new normal, for
employees, customers, partners,
vendors and more.
Speed is the new
currency.

17. Information flow and tracking metrics is key
Tracking the
information flow is
what really separates
mapping value
streams from
traditional process
maps. In addition to
learning about how
material flows we
also want to
understand how
information flows.
MRP
Production
Control
Weekly
Forecast
Supplier
Monthly
Forecast
Daily
Order
Customer
Peanut Butter
Application
Jelly Application Packaging Shopping
Total C/T = 25 secs Total C/T = 30 secs Total C/T = 42 secs
1 day
25 Secs
0.513 days
30 Secs
0.694 days
42 Secs
0.183 days
VA/ T = 97 secs
PLT = 2.39 days
PCE = 0.15%
700
pcs
359
pcs
486
pcs
128
pcs
Daily Schedule
!
! ! !

18. Code Build Test Release Deploy Operate
Operations Flow
Development Flow
Backlog Planned In Progress Done
Request Flow
Intake Approval Design
Developme
nt
Done
MaterialFlowInformationFlow
Busines
s
Feature
Request
Custome
r
E1
U2 U1U3
C1C3
C2
D1
Software delivery Value Streams

19. Just like there are DevOps Tools,
there are VSM Tools as well!
But you can only automate or adjust what the humans have decided to do!

20. DevOps can’t be the jelly

21. If DevOps is the jelly
in a PB&J, what is
Value Stream
Management?

22. VSM is the human
value stream management is human