Going all-in on Lean
By now, you should fully understand the premise behind this book:
Understanding the bigger VSM picture
Our modern VSM tools-oriented industry will have a very short life if organizations do not fundamentally understand that VSM is not limited to making flow improvements to CI/CD and DevOps pipeline flows. Those are critical objectives. However, the much larger opportunity is to deploy our improved IT pipeline flows and resources to improve the products and value streams across the organization. Otherwise, companies will spend much money, time, and effort installing integrated, automated, and orchestrated toolchains only to find they have little impact on the organization's bottom line and its value delivery capabilities.
At issue is the fact that improving one of the organization's value streams, from a systems-thinking perspective, is a form of local optimization if we don't look at its contribution to the system as a whole. Thus, we need...