The Lean-Agile Way Unleash Business Results in the Digital Era with Value Stream Management
Discover how mastering Lean, Agile, and VSM principles and practices can enhance your product delivery performance, mitigate risk, and foster business agility, giving you a competitive edge Key Features Learn how to apply Lean practices to eliminate waste and delays, ensuring value for your customer...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Birmingham, England :
Packt Publishing
[2024]
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| Edition: | First edition |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009845437806719 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright and credits
- Foreword
- Contributors
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Part 1: Building on Lean-Agile Foundations: Mastering the Basics
- Chapter 1: Navigating Lean-Agile Transformations
- Charting the digital frontier
- Understanding the digital economy's landscape
- Embracing Lean-Agile and VSM in the digital economy
- Exploring the hallmarks of Lean Thinking
- Foundational principles
- Streamlining flows
- Customer value
- Optimized flows
- Prioritizing Lean methodologies - redefining operational excellence
- Embracing Agile methodologies
- Understanding the origins of Agile
- Expanding Agile - beyond software development
- Iterating to deliver incremental value
- Harnessing the power of small, collaborative teams
- Combining Lean with Agile
- Establishing a strong foundation
- Supporting pillars in our Lean-Agile house
- Finding shelter in our Lean-Agile goals
- Synthesizing modern management principles
- Integrated practices for enhanced effectiveness
- Introducing the BLAST and BASE frameworks for Lean-Agile transformation
- Avoiding local optimization with Value Stream Management (VSM)
- Creating a cadence of continuous value delivery
- Unlocking value with Value Stream Management (VSM)
- The evolving nature of VSM
- Describing the VSM methodology
- Unveiling the versatility of VSM
- Enhancing professional expertise with VSM
- Leveraging IT for Lean-Agile transformation
- Investing in IT value stream improvements
- Evaluating information requirements and flows
- Summary
- Questions
- Answers
- Further Reading
- Chapter 2: Solving Complex Business Problems with Agility
- Technical requirements
- Embodying organizational agility
- Understanding the foundations of business agility
- Applying Agile principles
- Responding with agility.
- Managing COTS implementations: Agile versus Big-Bang
- Embracing Agile frameworks for collaboration
- Rediscovering the Agile Manifesto
- Moving beyond the Agile Manifesto
- Charting Scrum's ascendancy in Agile practices
- Understanding the Scrum Sprint cycle
- Applying Scrum's foundational principles
- Adapting to Scrum's deliberate flexibility
- Amplifying team efficacy with Scrum
- Mastering the art of small teams
- Fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation
- Defining team roles and responsibilities
- Facilitating effective collaboration through Scrum
- Encouraging cross-team collaborations
- Exploring the three pillars of Scrum's empiricism
- Embracing the team of teams (TOT) approach
- Adopting insights from the ToT philosophy
- Summary
- Questions
- Answers
- Further Reading
- Chapter 3: Establishing Lean Flows to Improve Productivity
- Technical requirements
- Unlocking Lean efficiency
- Orchestrating value streams
- Understanding the Lean philosophy
- Delivering value - the core of Lean
- Creating operational efficiency - the Lean way
- Meeting customer needs effectively
- Valuing the human element
- Embracing operational transformation
- Identifying waste and constraints
- Viewing the spectrum of waste
- Tweaking elements of waste by domain
- Constraints - the silent value blockers
- Mapping a value stream
- Amplifying IT's impact - driving operational efficiency and strategic value
- Prioritizing efficiency - the Lean imperative for organizational success
- Streamlining value delivery
- Classifying value streams
- Balancing speed and cost
- Enhancing efficiency by minimizing inefficiencies
- Carving a niche in the professional world
- Installing Lean strategies for a competitive edge
- Prioritizing value flows
- Demystifying organizational value streams.
- The Lean paradigm - where efficiency meets value
- Crafting competitive advantages with Lean
- Paving the way for market leadership
- Driving continuous improvement - fostering sustained enhancements through Lean principles
- An unwavering focus on impactful Lean improvements
- Cultivating a culture of continuous improvement
- Charting the course to sustained efficiency and profitability
- Championing the transformative power of continuous improvement
- Summary
- Questions
- Answers
- Further reading
- Part 2: Attending to our Value Streams: Prioritize Improvements by their Value-Added Impact
- Chapter 4: Driving Improvements with Value Stream Management
- Laying the groundwork for value stream mastery
- Adopting Lean-Agile concepts
- Understanding the taxonomy of value streams
- Applying VSM principles
- Optimizing value flow with VSM
- Avoiding the pitfalls of local optimization
- Defining the VSM process using the E9 methodology
- 1. Embark - beginning the journey
- 2. Educate - Training, communicating, and managing change for success
- 3. Envision - designing the ideal future state
- 4. Examine - assessing the current state and identifying inefficiencies
- 5. Evaluate - assessing inefficiencies and waste
- 6. Engineer - strategies and planning improvements
- 7. Execute - implementing changes and adjusting
- 8. Evolve - evolving through refinement of value stream activities
- 9. End - retiring a product
- Adopting a VSM platform
- Summary
- Questions
- Answers
- Further reading
- Chapter 5: Introducing the VSM Implementation Roadmap
- Introducing the VSM implementation roadmap
- Learning from history
- Examining the need for a VSM roadmap
- Exploring the VSM Implementation Roadmap
- Implementing Value Stream Management
- 1. Start - initiating value stream management.
- 2. Assess - evaluating and baselining current performance
- 3. Vision - creating a unified vision and goals
- 4. Identify - surfacing value streams
- 5. Organize - streamlining cross-functional collaboration
- 6. Map - visualizing process efficiency and opportunities
- 7. Connect - orchestrating people, processes, and tools
- 8. Inspect - using the Plan Do Study Act (PDSA) cycle to improve value streams
- 9. Adapt - communicate, scope, and plan interventions
- Comparing VSM methodology and the VSM implementation roadmap
- Summary
- Questions
- Answers
- Further reading
- Chapter 6: Navigating Value Stream Optimization
- Shifting from projects to products
- Evaluating project-centric behaviors
- Transitioning behaviors
- Contrasting product-centric behaviors
- Understanding flow at organizational and individual levels
- Identifying obstacles to streamlined workflows
- Seeing the organization in terms of flow
- Creating pathways to value - understanding and identifying value streams
- Charting pathways to value - identifying value streams
- Mapping flow
- Inspecting efficiency and effectiveness
- Refining the process - questions for progress
- Optimizing value streams
- Streamlining value delivery
- Managing value stream evolution
- Synchronizing core and supportive workflows
- Transitioning from functions to stream-aligned synergy
- Summary
- Questions
- Answers
- Further reading
- Chapter 7: Connecting the Value Stream Network
- Managing and optimizing value stream networks
- Organizing value stream networks
- Defining customer journeys
- Visualizing value stream proximity to customers
- Visualizing organizational workflow
- Guiding value stream strategy and investments
- Evolving the value stream network
- Improving value streams by performance focus
- Envisioning value stream dynamics.
- Evaluating value stream networks
- Value stream mapping reveals hidden constraints
- Streamlining product and platform value streams
- Cultivating a customer-centric approach
- Summary
- Questions
- Answers
- Further reading
- Part 3: Achieving Lean-Agile and VSM Mastery: For Product-Oriented Business Transformations
- Chapter 8: Implementing the Basic Lean-Agile Solution Team (BLAST)
- Technical requirements
- Harnessing BLAST
- Implementing Basic Lean-Agile Solutions Teams (BLAST)
- Categorizing BLAST work activities
- Defining BLAST increments
- Solution discovery (steps 1 and 2)
- MVI planning (steps 3 and 4)
- Workflow coordination (steps 5 to 11)
- Customer feedback (steps 12 to 17)
- Integrating Lean-Agile development concepts
- Aligning teams for collaborative excellence
- Combining Lean and Agile practices
- Defining BLAST roles
- Facilitating inter-team collaboration
- Balancing decision-making approaches
- Embracing Lean leadership
- Conducting Gemba walks for Lean leadership
- Managing multi-tiered reviews and communications
- Prioritizing value delivery in BLAST artifacts
- Optimizing Development Cadences and Value Deliveries
- Emphasizing customer centricity in Lean-Agile cadences
- Embracing Lean flows in modern software development
- Pursuing a new model for value delivery
- Mastering Lean-Agile Planning and Delivery Cadences
- Exploring planning horizons
- Facilitating collaboration at scale - the team-of-teams approach
- Understanding increments in life cycle management
- Embracing Lean-Agile management practices
- Championing Lean-Agile management
- Harnessing middle management for organizational agility
- Tracing BLAST's history
- Summary
- Questions
- Answers
- Further reading
- Chapter 9: Defining a Business Agility System for the Enterprise (BASE)
- Technical requirements.
- Understanding the BASE conceptual model.
