Value Stream Management (VSM)
Optimizing Flow from Idea to Deployment
In today's fast-paced economy, Agile, Lean and DevOps are no longer sufficient to get the full benefits of digital transformation. Enterprises must adopt VSM to deliver value better and faster than their competitors to thrive and survive. This shift involves moving away from temporary project teams, organized around functional silos that produce outputs — to cross-functional teams, organized around long-lived value streams — which continuously and predictably deliver outcomes.
This introductory course equips professionals, leaders, and transformation agents with the mindset, methods, and metrics needed to manage and optimize value streams in a digital environment. Participants will explore how VSM helps break down silos, expose bottlenecks, reduce lead time, and ensure that teams are delivering the right value to the right customers at the right time.
Through interactive sessions and hands-on exercises, participants will learn:
- What is Value Stream Management (VSM)
- Why VSM is critical for delivery success
- Understand the different types of value steams
- How to define value and value streams
- How to organize teams around value with cross-functional Agile teams, optimized for flow
- How to organize value streams in portfolios
- Understand the value stream mapping process
- Understand the difference between value stream and process mapping
- Understand how to make value flow without interruption
- Measure and apply flow metrics
- How to get started with VSM
Designed for leaders, and change agents, this course is your gateway to building high-performance delivery systems that deliver continuous value at scale.
Your instructor, Richard Knaster, is the co-author of The Lean-Agile Way and the SAFe Distilled book series, as well as the author of Value Stream Management for the Digital Age and SAFe Explained. With over 35 years of experience, Richard has helped organizations worldwide transform and accelerate value delivery across many different industries.