Value Stream Architecture: What it is and how it can help
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Modern enterprises increasingly rely on software to keep the lights on and lay the foundations for long-term sustainable growth. Among many things, IT leaders are tasked with accelerating the time to value of their software delivery value streams. But when asked, “Do you know what is slowing your software delivery teams down?”, why do IT leaders typically not know the answer? Methodologies such as Agile and DevOps have been adopted to accelerate the time between build to deploy, yet the benefits are often only felt at a localized level (more sprints completed, higher number of deployments etc.) without a tangible link to business outcomes. Enter Value Stream Architecture. During this webinar, Senior Value Stream Architect, Dan Feminella, presents: - The business case for Value Stream Architecture - Why your organization needs it in order to scale Agile and DevOps - How to architect for end-to-end flow of business value from customer request to delivery and back through the customer feedback loop
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Value Stream Architecture: What it is and how it can help
- 1. © Tasktop 2019© Tasktop 2019 Value Stream Architecture What it is and how it can help
- 2. © Tasktop 2019 Senior Value Stream Architect Dan Feminella Presenter
- 3. © Tasktop 2019 Waterfall orientation Flow orientation Project to Product: Planning Project Product
- 4. © Tasktop 2019 Project Product Start Delivery All learning, specification, and strategic decision making up-front Project to Product: Budgets
- 5. © Tasktop 2019 Project 1 Project 2 Project 3 Product 1 Product 2 Product 3 People are brought to work Work is brought to People Project to Product: People Project Product
- 6. © Tasktop 2019 PMO Production is a black box Direct mapping to business strategy Business Technology Project to Product: Visibility Project Product
- 7. © Tasktop 2019 Integrated production lines Managed as products Architected around flow Optimized end-to-end Measurement of business results Car production Disconnected tool chains Managed as projects Architected as technology layers Optimized in siloes Measurement of proxy metrics Enterprise IT
- 8. © Tasktop 2019 BMW Leipzig Plant Architecture Image Source: BMWGroup
- 9. © Tasktop 2019 What flows in software delivery? Features Defects Risks Debts New business value, pulled by customer Quality improvements, pulled by customer Security, availability, compliance, pulled by risk officers Technical debt improvements, pulled by architects Flow Items are MECE* *Mutually Exclusive and Comprehensively Exhaustive
- 10. © Tasktop 2019 Push to Market Debts & Risks Quality Defect Work Feature Work Diagram: Adapted from Gene Kim
- 11. © Tasktop 2019 Death Spiral Debts & Risks Quality Feature Work Defect Work Diagram: Adapted from Gene Kim
- 12. © Tasktop 2019 Debt & Risk Reduction Debts & Risks QualityDebt Work Feature Work :) Feature Work Diagram: Adapted from Gene Kim
- 13. © Tasktop 2019 1 3 True North • Focus is on accelerating the delivery of Business Value • Reduce Flow Time from Business Idea/Hypothesis to Delivery and Feedback • Business Success • Higher Engagement • Innovation
- 14. © Tasktop 2019 SPEED TIME High Acceleration during Design, Develop and Acceptance Testing 0 Teams waiting for work due to disconnected planning processes Delivery slowed down by manual and high ceremony processes Water-SCRUM-Fall Agile Accelerates the Middle of Value Stream
- 15. © Tasktop 2019 Barclays’ Value Stream Image taken with permission from Jon Smart presentation at DOES London 2018 – credit Klaus Leopold
- 16. © Tasktop 2019 Why Value Stream Architecture? Left on their own, vertical silos will naturally create disruption in the flow of value. Organizational and functional affinity negatively disrupts horizontal flow.
- 17. © Tasktop 2019 Value Stream Management Value Stream Visibility Provides Connectivity to the Business Integration provides the paths which enable artifacts to flow A new way to manage a software delivery organization from strategy to delivery focusing on products and their value streams. The Flow Framework™ Tasktop’s structured and prescriptive approach to executing Value Stream Management.
- 18. © Tasktop 2019 1 8 © 2018 Forrester Research, Inc. Unauthorized copying or distributing is a violation of copyright law. Forrester Value Stream Management Report
- 19. © Tasktop 2019 How long did it take for this feature to get through the value stream? How much wait time was there for defects? What is the distribution between defects, features, risk and technical debt? 01 02 03 Measure 12 6 9 3
- 20. © Tasktop 2019 Flow Time
- 21. © Tasktop 2019 Flow Efficiency
- 22. © Tasktop 2019© Tasktop 2019 Integrated Delivery Value Stream
- 23. © Tasktop 2019© Tasktop 2019 Integrated Delivery Pipeline
- 24. © Tasktop 2019 Value Stream Architecture Principles Architect & Integrate for Flow and Speed of Delivery Implement Flow Metrics Utilize metrics in retrospectives and ask “what’s slowing us down, how can we go faster?” Replace request/response/SLAs with Self-Service Create continuous improvement initiatives which are prioritized with other work and made visible
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- 28. © Tasktop 2019 Connect and Flow Your Artifacts FEATURES
- 29. © Tasktop 2019 How long did it take for this feature to get through the value stream? How much wait time was there for defects? What is the distribution between defects, features, risk and technical debt? 01 02 03 Active Waiting Start End Results
- 30. © Tasktop 2019 What’s the point? • Flow metrics are tied to business value • Flow metrics are based on outcomes • Flow metrics provide a feedback loop to improve decisions
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- 32. © Tasktop 2019 Top Priority: New Features Result: Defects & Debt Last year: Unhappiest team This year: Happiest team Less Happy
- 33. © Tasktop 2019 Advice • Business leaders • Ensure product portfolio and Value Stream Metrics are tracked • Empower delivery teams to allocate Flow Distribution to match strategy • Know that hitting north star requires global focus (eg. Debt reduction) • Technologists • Create your value stream network by connecting your tool network • Define your value stream architecture & mapping to product model • Use the flow metrics to identify bottlenecks, dependencies & opportunities • Organization • Align products, applications, agile teams & software architecture
- 34. © Tasktop 2019 Patterns for Success • Start small and experiment • Create Flow Team • Don’t fall in love with a process or technology • Fall in love with getting better – Third Way • Adopt strangler patterns and build scaffolding • Let others take credit and share their stories • Look at what success has been made rather than a focus on how much more could be done • Be truthful – especially with the business – this is hard work – make this work visible • Systems Thinking to optimize the whole
- 35. © Tasktop 2019 Next Steps • Value Stream Architecture Consulting Session (free) • https://go.tasktop.com/Value-Stream-Architecture-Consulting.html • Introduction to Value Stream Training Class (free) • https://www.tasktop.com/value-stream-management-training • Flow 101 Workshop with Dominica DeGrandis • https://www.tasktop.com/value-stream-consulting/flow-workshop
Editor's Notes
- Fredrick Taylor 1900s Henry Gantt 1910s Hoover Dam 1931
- Project – build to get it done and move on Product – build to last and support…BMW
- 308 toolchains analyzed. No wonder we’ve giving people RSI, or making theme give up before they get it No common definition of productivity Saw what the master what the manufacturing age looked like Take more time Challenge is making business leadership see what we see I have seen the heights of productivity, and the lows. How do we know the difference?
- There is a common language of production and value delivery between the technologists and the business. We need to move away from the siloed and disconnected world of enterprise IT and toward what BMW created. Here the business and the architecture are perfect aligned as product value streams. You can see the architecture of the value streams by looking at the plant itself. This is value stream architecture, and you can see it from space
- Gene Kim - DevOps Dean Leffingwell – Creator of SAFe
- Site reliability tanks Customers leave Devs leave because everything is hard
- Bill Gates Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 5:22 PM To: Microsoft and Subsidiaries: All FTE Subject: Trustworthy computing SQL Slammer Could have saved Nokia Now going faster than ever, more secure than ever
- This is Barclays analysis of their 18 month cycle for an idea, and how optimizing Agile alone is inefficient, if that’s not their bottleneck.
- Tasktop provides a framework…VSM from other vendors is just tying things together Work on VSM - FF slide Talk about BMW Satlite view Bottom is plant tied together Top is measure the output that is relevant to the business
- FF is good for talking to business at a high level Arch Principles is how to work with the people on the team
- Crash course in 5 flow metrics – why how and some considerations.
- Happiness Engagement Employee Retention
- Thank you enjoy the book, let me know what you think