I've been digging into and expanding my understanding of value flow in different contexts, and (as I do) visualizing it has been helpful to put it all into context. Have a look and if you're interested in further reading, check... (More)

I wanted to share a comment I made on a great post I saw today, because it's such a common challenge and the typical approaches are a hard sell:

https://www.olivierjacques.com/blog/devops/6-strategies-to-set-time-aside-to-improve

In his post, Olivier outlines 6 common strategies for tackling... (More)

As DevOps, systems thinking and continuous improvement become more common knowledge, more and more people are looking beyond those foundations to how they can be best applied.

More and more, I see people wondering what Value Stream Mapping and Value... (More)

I spent some time today mapping out the similarities and differences between Value Stream Mapping and EventStorming. It's remarkable how similar they seem, and I think the way I've been doing VSM is very close to an EventStorming approach. I... (More)