Let's Build a
Value Stream

Joe Schmetzer • @tumbarumba@techhub.social

Form Groups

• Split into groups of no more than 6 people
• Warm up: Introduce yourselves!
  • What do you do?
  • What are your hobbies, interests?
  • Something unusual about yourself?
  • 3 minutes!
• Decide/elect a value stream expert
  • 1 minute!

Build the Value Stream

• Name the stream (e.g. Add a Feature to Geronimo)
• Start at the end (what is the value?)
• Start a loop:
  • Ask the question:
    • What must happen to allow this?
  • Write that down on a card
  • Repeat
• 20 minutes!

Review

• What's missing?
• For each card:
  • How many people?
  • What roles?
  • How long?
  • It is value add or overhead?
• What about queues? Add them in!

Effort Analysis

Big Visible Value Stream

Waste, Inefficiencies, Delays?

Driving Improvements

1. Metrics?
2. Vision?
3. Experiments

Improvements can Fund Themselves!

• Standard economic measure:
  • Life-Cycle Profits
• Economic model:
  • product value
  • product cost
  • development expense
  • cycle time
  • risk

Toyota Improvement Kata

^*Image from The Improvement Kata, by Mike Rother