Value Stream Thinking for Product Development

This site is dedicated to exploring and sharing insights into Value Stream Thinking – a discipline that helps organizations understand how value is truly created and delivered. Rooted in Lean Manufacturing principles, Value Stream Thinking has evolved into a powerful approach for enabling focus, flow, and performance in today’s fast-paced world of product development1, Agile, and DevOps.
Our goal is to provide a space for learning, discussion, and continuous improvement – of both the ideas presented here and our collective understanding of this essential topic. Feedback is welcome!

Why Value Stream Thinking?


Why value stream thinking and organizing around value is essential for modern organizations .

How to start with a Single Value Stream


How to begin by selecting, identifying, and setting up your first value stream.

Working with Large Value Streams


How to manage large and complex value streams and value stream landscapes

Visualization of Value Streams

There are different ways to visualize a value stream. How do you select the right one for your purpose?

The Assembly Line Approach

Whitepaper that explains the „New model for Product Development“ end-to-end.

Value Stream Identification (VSI)

An introduction to Value Stream Identification and the power of combining VSI and Organizing Around Value.

Assembly Line for Value Stream Identification

How to use the Assembly Line Approach for value stream identification.

Assembly Line for Value Stream Optimization


How to add performance metrics and systematically improve your value stream.

Setting Value Streams up for Organizing Around Value



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Breakout Articles/Special Topics

Types of Value Streams – Explaining Operational and Development Value Streams and other common types

Variant Management – and its Strategic implications

Notes & References

  1. Our focus is on Development Value Streams, as we see a clear need to adapt traditional value stream thinking to the specific challenges and dynamics of modern product development. ↩︎