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The emergence of Value Stream Management (VSM) as a concept applicable to software delivery signaled a change in the winds for traditional enterprises in a tech-driven world. Finally, “non-tech” organizations have a practice available that is focussed on extracting more business value from IT.

While the two “VSMs” are different concepts, they are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they’re complementary. To understand how both practices work, we need to define what they are and what they can do.

Instead of reveling in their passion for building great products, developers find themselves too often wasting countless hours on non-value adding work.

Countless meetings, logging in and out of tools to copy/paste information, rummaging through emails and chat threads, filling in timesheets - - everything but coding. Meanwhile the business and their management are on their backs; “Faster! Better! More!”

Such a high-pressure environment is a surefire way to kill your passion, turning your dream into a nightmare. It shouldn’t be like this, nor does it have to.

As traditional enterprises struggle to transform in the Age of Digital Disruption and compete with tech giants and startups, the need to accelerate the flow of business value through software is now a critical business priority. Leading organizations, many of whom are in the Fortune 100, have taken key steps to architect their software delivery value stream around flow to successfully reduce the time to value of their software products.