Agile/Lean/DevOps Has Gotten You Close – VSM Can Take You Over The Line
Enterprises are well on their way with Agile/Lean/DevOps and have made substantial gains but are they focused on the right thing. Adoption of value stream management (VSM) has been on a slow rise, but this year’s “State of Value Stream Management” report shares that it is apparently “Crossing the Chasm” - moving from early to main-stream market. So, let’s talk about the opportunities VSM adoption presents to an organization and go beyond the technical pipeline truly aligning teams to delivering on the desired business outcomes. The time has come to embrace VSM and move beyond the perceived barriers. The time has come to just start doing!
Al Wagner
Al Wagner is an HCL Software Solution Architect and DevOps Enthusiast with more than twenty-five years of practical field experience in numerous development roles driving thought leadership, strategic initiatives, and tangible solutions around DevOps adoption. Focusing primarily on value stream management, deployment automation, and continuous testing, Al has practical knowledge of DevOps solutions having assisted, mentored, and enabled teams to help solve their IT challenges. He has spoken at numerous conferences around the world on software development – principles & techniques and authored/co-authored numerous papers and books including Application Release and Deployment For Dummies, Continuous Testing For Dummies, Service Virtualization For Dummies, and most recently contributed to Gary Rupp's "Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management".