Value stream mapping (VSM) is a business management tool that documents the steps needed to take a project from inception to customer delivery. Often associated with Lean Six Sigma practices, the tool ...

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 ...

"Process mapping on steroids." That's how John Dyer used to describe value stream mapping back when VSM was just beginning to assert itself as a new continuous improvement tool and process mapping was ...

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 ...

In today’s digital world, organizations often say they’ve gone from customer-centric to customer-obsessed. They’ve embraced continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment (CI/CD) and other ...

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 ...

A successful business is focused on delivering value. Therefore, the projects that you are running need to be aligned to the strategic objectives of your organization. With the influx of new ...

At Broadcom’s recent Spark VSM Summit, the theme was “VSM evolution meets AI revolution.” After the event, SD Times sat down with Broadcom’s Jean Louis Vignaud, the head of ValueOps at the company, to ...

Organizations that have begun a digital transformation either use value stream management (VSM) or plan to use it to help them make better data-driven decisions and facilitate faster product delivery ...

Process mapping is a powerful tool to help businesses understand, manage, and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their operations. This 2-day workshop will focus on Value Stream Maps for ...

Value Stream Mapping: The Current State provides an introduction to the tools and process of value stream mapping. This course explains common value stream mapping (VSM) icons, the steps to creating a ...