Part 2 – Identifying Bottlenecks
Once Team Toaster Strudel completes the mapping of the current state value stream, Dorothy has the team review it to identify bottlenecks in the flow of value. She asks where the team sees the biggest areas of delay. Rosko, a tester on the team, points out that the Wait Time between the Test and Deploy states is the largest delay (20 days) followed by Wait Time between the Define and Design states (10 days). The team unanimously agrees and decides to address these two areas first. Dorthy applauds the team for attacking the Wait Time between steps before looking at how they can shrink the Active Time per step. See Figure 1.