3 Roadblocks to Measuring the Flow of Value in Enterprise Software Delivery

To continuously improve and accelerate delivery of value to customers, organizations need to establish their current state by measuring the end-to-end flow of value. Value Stream Management is the practice of taking a systematic approach to measuring and improving flow to help organizations shorten time-to-market, increase throughput, improve product quality, and optimize for business outcomes. The first step in measuring the end-to-end flow of value is ensuring all software-related work is assigned to a particular value stream that is aligned with a specific business outcome. The next step is tracking all that work across the value stream from concept to delivery and subsequent operations. The tricky part of Value Stream Management is overcoming three key roadblocks preventing organizations from measuring and managing their software delivery value streams to accelerate business value delivery: data fragmentation across multiple tools, different work states across multiple workflows, and multiple frameworks and multiple measurements.