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The realities of value stream management
SD Times rang in 2019 with a January issue cover declaring this the year of value stream management. The hype machine is in high gear, touting the benefits of removing waste from your production process and assessing every piece of work you do to make sure it’s providing value. The work of W.E. Deming is … continue reading
ConnectALL 2.11 introduces Logic Flow Adapters
ConnectALL 2.11 is the latest release of the value stream management (VSM) company’s flagship VSM platform. ConnectALL is calling this release a “complete overhaul” of the platform, providing a more modern UI and stronger VSM capabilities. Logic Flow Adapters were added to the platform in this release. These allow users to incorporate business logic into … continue reading
Value stream management provides predictability in unpredictable times
In 2019, most business leaders probably wouldn’t have predicted the changes that would be coming their way in early 2020 thanks to a global pandemic. If they had, perhaps they would have been able to make decisions more proactively and wouldn’t have had to scramble to convert their workforce to remote, digitize all their experiences, … continue reading
What role do developers have in value stream management?
From an organizational level, creating and managing value streams plays an important role in eliminating wasteful processes and the time they take, enabling the company to focus on delivering value to their customers. At software companies – which many, many companies are today – the primary role of developers is delivering that value, in the … continue reading
New value stream tool illuminates areas where waste can be eliminated
ConnectALL Wednesday gave a sneak peek into its forthcoming Designer tool that visualizes work from idea through delivery and can illuminate areas where waste and non-value work cost organizations time and money. The sneak peek was demonstrated during an SD Times Live! talk by ConnectALL’s COO and president Lance Knight and principal solutions architect Johnathan … continue reading
How these tools facilitate value stream management
We asked these tool providers to share more information on how their solutions help companies with their value streams. Their responses are below. Laureen Knudsen, chief transformation officer at Broadcom ValueOps from Broadcom is the leading Value Stream Management Platform that allows large organizations to deploy and execute a “true” value stream management strategy. Only … continue reading
Value Stream Management: The practice that finally unites business and IT
Some 86% of respondents to a Broadcom survey on value stream management indicated they are not doing value stream management right now. To that, Lance Knight would say, “Yes, you are. You just don’t know it yet.” Knight, the COO of value stream platform provider ConnectALL, said if a company is already evaluating their processes … continue reading
A guide to value stream management tools
The following is a listing of value stream management tool providers, along with a brief description of their offerings. Broadcom Software: Broadcom’s innovative ValueOps solution delivers on the promise of value stream management (VSM) as the first to combine business and investment-oriented product management, providing advanced operationally focused agile planning and management capabilities. The integration … continue reading
ConnectALL’s VSM platform now offering enhanced test management adapter to accelerate software delivery
ConnectALL LLC, a leading provider of value stream management solutions, announced today that its Value Stream Management Platform has added enhanced test management integration through the development of its Tricentis Tosca Universal Adapter. ConnectALL’s customers are trying to maximize business value by increasing their software delivery velocity without lowering product quality. Effective test automation has … continue reading
VSM DevCon opening keynote: What value stream isn’t
Value stream management isn’t a defined process like Scrum. It’s not a specific thing you can adopt with purpose in the way you could a DevOps culture. Value stream management isn’t a tool you can adopt to manage your value stream. These are some of the points made during the ConnectALL opening keynote at the … continue reading
Value stream is not as easy as it seems
It is time to start rethinking your value streams. Lance Knight, COO of ConnectALL, said the industry is making value stream management sound so much simpler than it really is, when in reality it requires teams to start thinking deeper and differently about how their work flows. The problem is that organizations are looking at … continue reading
ConnectALL takes on software tool proliferation with Universal Adapter
ConnectALL has announced its Universal Adapter has reached patent pending status, and is currently under review by the U.S. Patent Office. The Universal Adapter designed to interconnect software tools and manage flow across the software development ecosystem. “With the Universal Adapter, ConnectALL has the ability to connect to any tool, any solution…anything you use. That … continue reading
Creating value requires feedback loops
While companies are starting down the value stream, assessing and mapping their operations and product delivery to find areas of bottleneck and waste, another critical aspect of value stream management is feedback loops. People discuss applying manufacturing techniques to software creation and delivery, and breaking down their product portfolios into work for the development or … continue reading
