In many organizations, every department works hard and most status reports are green, yet the overall result falls short. People act rationally from where they stand: they pursue their department’s goals, protect its budget and headcount and compete for priority and capacity. The system rewards this – and those who play it best rise and…
AI capabilities are advancing faster than operating models are adapting. A common reason: organizations treat AI adoption and their operating model as two separate topics, often with separate responsibilities. But they are inseparable. AI accelerates execution – yet without adapting structures, funding, and ways of working, the results fall far short of what AI could…
Peter Vollmer (Agile Point of View), Zack Brown (Atlassian), and Renaud Granier (Accenture) met at the SAFe Summit in Amsterdam for an in-depth conversation about Value Stream Management and Value Stream Thinking. What is Value Stream Thinking? While Value Stream Management focuses on tooling and automation, Value Stream Thinking is about applying a new model…
Value Stream Thinking has always been shaped by two things: what happens in real value streams, and what the research on flow, systems, and organizational design already tells us. Over the past months both have pushed in the same direction, and the site now reflects that. None of what follows replaces earlier material. The Assembly…
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…
Until now, the Assembly Line Model was introduced within individual articles – as part of Value Stream Identification, Optimization, or Visualization – but there was no single article that explained what the model actually is, how it looks, and what it can be used for. This new article closes that gap. It describes the key…
The Assembly Line Identification article introduces the blue boxes as stages in the value stream, but it deliberately keeps the focus on the big picture – the structure and flow between stages rather than what lives inside them. In practice, I have found that this is exactly where many teams get stuck: they understand the…
On March 26th, I presented From Chaos to Clarity: Building Value Stream Landscapes to Steer Enterprise Performance at the SAFe & AI Summit in Amsterdam. I was delighted to have Simon Kienzle from Mercedes-Benz alongside me, sharing first-hand how Value Stream Thinking is being applied in one of the world’s most complex product development environments….
Value Stream Thinking didn’t emerge from theory – it grew out of one of the largest SAFe transformations in enterprise software, built from the inside over more than 10 years. At the SAFe & AI Summit in Amsterdam, Renaud Granier, Accenture, sat down with me to explore how that experience gave rise to VST, why…
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