The Lean-Agile Way: Unleash business results in the digital era with value stream management

by Cecil 'Gary' Rupp, Richard Knaster, Steve Pereira, and Al Shalloway

Mik Kersten (Foreword)

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Discover how mastering Lean, Agile, and VSM principles and practices can enhance your product delivery performance, mitigate risk, and foster business agility, giving you a competitive edge

Key Features

Learn how to apply Lean practices to eliminate waste and delays, ensuring value for your customers
Master Agile practices to address problems and create value-centric products and services
Explore VSM methods and tools to identify and prioritize improvement opportunities that maximize value addition
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Book DescriptionIn the fast-paced business and IT landscape, efficiency is key to success. To excel in delivering value to customers, reducing waste, and resolving pain points, identifying the right tools and strategies is paramount. Unlocking the secrets of Lean, Agile, Value Stream Management (VSM), and various digital enhancements, this book offers a roadmap to optimize processes, improve products, and elevate service delivery.
You’ll start with an introduction to foundational Lean and Agile practices, recognizing the significance of digital enhancements in modernizing business processes. As you progress, you'll learn VSM techniques to identify and prioritize work and investments to provide maximum value to customers. Moreover, you'll grasp Lean-Agile practices aimed at promoting collaboration among teams and ensuring the continuous flow of product-oriented deliveries tailored to address customer needs. Finally, you'll gain executive-level insights on how organizations must access timely information for decision-making and foster a culture of continuous business transformation.
Armed with this knowledge and a robust toolkit, you'll be empowered to drive meaningful change, optimize resources, and stay ahead in the rapidly evolving marketplace.What you will learn

Understand how to integrate the seemingly disparate practices of Lean and Agile
Integrate Lean, Agile, and VSM to accelerate value flow, enhance efficiency, and drive improvements
Drive product-oriented transformations with business increments, Lean-Agile teams, product lifecycles, VSM, and IT alignment
Leverage the VSM implementation roadmap to drive digital value stream enhancements
Investigate advanced VSM tools/platforms, AI insights, and VSMP selection criteria
Explore Lean-Agile/VSM success stories to gain implementation insights

Who this book is forThis Lean-Agile book is for business and technology professionals striving to optimize value delivery while minimizing costs. Whether you're a VSM manager, a member of a product delivery team, DevOps engineer, or an IT specialist, this book offers proven methods for effectively identifying and implementing improvement opportunities. Product owners looking to prioritize backlog items and corporate executives aiming to demonstrate positive returns on information technology investments will also find this book helpful.
  • ISBN10 1835461476
  • ISBN13 9781835461471
  • Publish Date 30 August 2024
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Packt Publishing Limited
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 386
  • Language English