Chapter 11: Identifying VSM Tool Types and Capabilities
In Predicts 2021: Value Streams Will Define the Future of DevOps Report (published October 5, 2020), Gartner states that "By 2023, 70% of organizations will use value stream management to improve flow in the DevOps pipeline, leading to faster delivery of customer value." (https://www.gartner.com/) Clearly, Gartner believes that VSM, as an IT improvement strategy, is rapidly becoming mainstream.
As you can see from the preceding Gartner quote, VSM tools are rapidly gaining traction in the IT industry. But it would be a mistake to start implementing the tools before understanding the larger objectives of VSM, as well as how to implement a VSM activity across a value stream. The problem is that the data and metrics that VSM tools provide have little practical use unless we first understand Lean value stream improvements' goals and principles. That is why you spent the first four chapters learning how to apply a...