When people hear the term “Map the Value Stream,” their thoughts often go to the Value Stream Mapping (VSM) Process. Value Stream Mapping as depicted in “Learning to See: Value Stream Mapping to Add ...

What Is Value Stream Mapping (VSM)? What is a value stream? A value stream represents the series of actions an organization takes to design, create, and deliver a product or service to its customers, ...

Programmers who focus in increments of two-week sprints can be left in the dark on long-term business strategy. Shine a light on processes and potential improvements with visual aids. When ...

Value Stream Maps (VSM) are a powerful tool used in lean manufacturing and other business processes to visualize and analyze the flow of materials and information required to bring a product or ...

When beginning with Lean most of us immediately delve into Value Stream Mapping (VSM) thinking this process alone will make us Lean. It is one of the most requested Lean software tools (even though it ...

While the last chapter discussed how to raise awareness about environmental wastes across your organization, this chapter will show you how to target Lean improvement efforts within a product’s value ...

Value stream management (VSM) is an emerging business process intended to gauge the flow of value into business resources and activities as well as the flow of value back into the business. VSM helps ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. Many discussions around ...

Value stream has become a part of the application development lexicon, having first gained uptake as a manufacturing exercise and now being applied to the process of delivering value to customers ...

Have you ever tried to explain to someone new to your hometown how to get to your favorite restaurant? Doing that verbatim is quite challenging, using a map helps you point to and show what you are ...