Value Stream Management Foundation℠

Workshop Description

Value Stream Management has been around since the dawn of lean – but it’s different in the digital world. Digital value streams need a different treatment, and DevOps toolchains mean we have more opportunities to gain actionable insights and deliver value outcomes to our customers than ever before.DevOps Institute Members can participate in the Continuing Education Program and earn Continuing Education Units through study, certification exams like VSM Foundation and other learning opportunities. VSM is an introductory workshop taking learners through a value stream management implementation journey. It considers the human, process, and technology aspects of this way of working and explores how optimizing value streams for flow and realization positively impacts organizational performance.

Audience

People working in an organization aiming to improve performance, especially in response to digital transformation or disruption. Any roles involved in the creation and delivery of products or services: Leadership and CXO, especially CIO, CTO, CPO, and CVO Transformation and evolution leads and change agents Value stream architects, managers, engineers Scrum Masters, agile and DevOps coaches and facilitators Portfolio, product and project managers, and owners Business analysts Architects, developers, and engineers Release and environment managers IT Ops, service and support desk workers Customer experience and success professionals.

Benefits for Organizations

Improve performance, especially in response to digital transformation or disruption Enhance the creation and delivery of products or services.

Benefits for Individuals

Understand the VSM language, core concepts and key practices Learn how to identify and organize around value streams Learn how to map value streams Learn how to connect your DevOps toolchain and measure it Discover how to apply DevOps practices to accelerate time to value and learning Learn how to effectively use metrics to inspect, adapt and evolve capability.

Topics Covered

The history and evolution of VSM Identifying value streams Mapping value streams Connecting DevOps toolchains Value stream metrics Inspecting the value stream Organizing as value streams Evolving value streams.

Learning Objectives

Describe the origins of value stream management and key concepts such as flow, value, and delivery Describe what value stream management is, why it’s needed and the business benefits of its practice Describe how lean, agile, DevOps, and ITSM principles contribute to value stream management Identify and describe value streams, where they start and end, and how they interconnect Identify value stream roles and responsibilities Express value streams visually using mapping techniques, define current and target states and hypothesis backlog Write value stream flow and realization optimization hypotheses and experiments Apply metrics such as touch/processing time, wait/idle time, and cycle time to value streams Understand flow metrics and how to access the data to support data-driven conversations and decisions Examine value realization metrics and aligning to business outcomes, and how to sense and respond to them (outcomes versus outputs) Architect a DevOps toolchain alongside a value stream and data connection points Design a continuous inspection and adaptation approach for organizational evolution.

Prerequisites

None, although having a working knowledge of lean, agile, DevOps, and value stream principles will be useful.

Professional Development Units (PDUs)

Professional Development Units (PDUs) Attendees may be eligible to apply for 14 PDUs toward their continuing education requirements with the Project Management Institute (PMI) for PMP®, PgMP®, and PMI-ACP® certifications.

Certification Exam

Successfully passing (65%) the 60-minute examination, consisting of 40 multiple-choice questions, leads to the candidate receiving their Value Stream Management Foundation certification and digital badge. The certification is governed and maintained in partnership with DevOps Institute.

Learning Materials

2 days of instructor-led training and exercise facilitation Digital Learner Manual including: Course slideware Value-Added Resources Interactive exercises and discussions designed to apply concepts Case stories Glossary Sample exam(s) Access to additional sources of information Option to join the DevOps Institute and Value Stream Management Consortium membership communities.

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