Webinar Recording Now Available: How to Design Complex Systems for Maximum Flow
The recording of the May 20 webinar How to Design Complex Systems for Maximum Flow: Applying Value Stream Thinking at Mercedes-Benz is now available.
In this 90-minute session, Peter Vollmer and Simon Kienzle (Transformation Design Lead, Mercedes-Benz) walked through how Value Stream Thinking concepts are being applied in one of the world’s most complex cyber-physical product development environments. Topics covered included:
- The Assembly Line Model as the structural foundation for seeing, designing, and steering complex systems
- The four structural lenses of Value Stream design — Dynamic, Architecture, Fracture Planes, and Conway’s Law — and how each reveals a different class of constraint
- The four Value Stream Landscape types and how each supports a different steering decision
- The challenge of cross-domain functionality in automotive product development, illustrated with real examples from Mercedes-Benz MB.OS
- Three structural models for handling cross-domain integration: Cascading Backlogs, Dynamic Scaling, and Cross-Functional Teams
The webinar was co-hosted by SAFe (Scaled Agile) and adesso.