The Value Stream Mapping solution can be used while working in the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and drawing software to visualize the needed information flow. The eVSM Software is the easiest, most automated way to draw, analyze, and share value stream maps. It’s used to reduce waste, balance lines, save costs, increase capacity, and reduce lead times. Three standout aspects of the software.
DevOps is for everyone
Azure DevOps Use a value stream map to help you examine your existing processes and technologies. Value stream maps can be created with flowchart software, and many products will have the core symbols necessary embedded within their symbol libraries. The example below shows what a typical value stream map might look like. Value Stream Mapping Definition. Value Stream Mapping (VSM): – Special type of flow chart that uses symbols known as 'the language of Lean' to depict and improve the flow of inventory and 2 information.
Software is becoming increasingly integral to the operation of every business in every sector in every market. Therefore, almost every business today has become a de facto digital enterprise. And each is vulnerable to the disruptions caused by new competitors leveraging digital technology to quickly enter markets and overturn existing business models. The Scaled Agile Framework serves the business imperative of making organizations more agile in responding to digital disruption. The DevOps and Release on Demand competency’s focus on enabling the business to release on demand plays a key role in ensuring greater enterprise agility. It is a critical enabler for the ability to release on demand, because it helps overcome traditional misalignments across the Value Stream.
Moving value through the enterprise
DevOps is a mindset, an enterprise-wide culture and practice. Although it does not have a commonly accepted manifesto or playbook, core capabilities of successful DevOps implementations can be identified. The five core concepts of DevOps and Release on Demand include:
- Value Stream Mapping
- Gaining alignment with Continuous Exploration (CE)
- Building quality in with Continuous Integration (CI)
- Reducing time-to-market with Continuous Deployment (CD)
- Delivering business value with release on demand
In SAFe DevOps, we also have a tool called the SAFe DevOps Health Radar. The health radar was built to help Agile Release Trains (ARTs) assess their ability to deliver continuous value to their customers. The assessment allows the ART to drill down into the 16 sub-dimensions of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline and rate their proficiency in more than 50 specific skills. After identifying gaps using the health radar, ARTs upskill in the areas that improve value flow the most and conduct periodic follow-up assessments to manage their ongoing improvement. The DevOps Health Radar is a popular, free tool that helps ARTs manage the long term evolution of their Continuous Delivery Pipelines.
You can also go to our partner’s site, AgilityHealth, to take an online version of the assessment at https://agilityhealthradar.com/safe-devops-assessment.
Value Stream Mapping
When implementing DevOps, the problem is that even after a good action plan is created, the team is not sure how to act on it or whether the right people are even working on it. Value Stream mapping is a multifaceted tool for identifying problems with the flow of value and building a better future map and action plan. This draws clarity to where the bottlenecks lie and where the improvements are most needed.
Build the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
Gaining alignment with continuous exploration
Continuous exploration is the process of continually exploring the market and user needs, as well as defining a Vision, Roadmap, Architecture, and set of Features that address these needs. CE helps to build alignment across the organization about what should be built or what hypothesis should be evaluated.
Building quality in with continuous integration
Stakeholders need to see work turning into tangible, working solutions. Continuous integration ensures that development teams are not only busy, but productive, by delivering working software and systems each Iteration. Without CI, teams may be sprinting, but the system as a whole might not be iterating.
Reducing time-to-market with continuous deployment
Enterprises deploy continuously to get to market quickly and enable the business to release value on demand. In SAFe, deployment is decoupled from release. Therefore, continuous deployment focuses on deploying continuously to production, not going live to end users.
Delivering business value with release on demand
Releasing value on demand provides the business with the capability of getting value into the hands of users when there is market and user demand for it. The final part of every hypothesis learning cycle is evaluating with customers and users, and learning for further exploration. Responsibility for operating the solution is shared across the organization.
A CALMR approach to DevOps
Approaches to implementing DevOps are diverse, without a standard playbook or central manifesto. But successful DevOps organizations do tend to have certain capabilities in common. They help inform the principles on which SAFe DevOps is based. SAFe calls these principles a CALMR approach to DevOps.
Culture
Establish a culture of shared responsibility for development, deployment, and operations.
Automation
Automate the continuous delivery pipeline.
Lean flow
Keep batch sizes small, limit WIP, and provide extreme visibility.
Measurement
Measure the flow through the pipeline. Implement application telemetry.
Recovery
Architect and enable low risk releases. Establish fast recovery, fast reversion, and fast fix-forward.
Ready to accelerate value delivery?
The core concepts of DevOps are tested, proven, and straightforward. But their successful application is based on learning new skills to help map an organization’s current value stream through its delivery pipeline from concept to cash. It is also critical to learn how to identify practices that will eliminate bottlenecks to flow. With the tide of digital disruption continuing to roll through every industry and enterprise, training in SAFe DevOps is growing in importance. Certification in these skills enables leadership to quickly assemble teams who can help the organization achieve greater agility.
SAFe DevOps training helps you…
- Explain how DevOps enables strategic business objectives
- Apply a CALMR approach to DevOps to avoid automating broken processes
- Understand how successful DevOps requires continuous exploration, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and the ability to release to end users on demand
- Incorporate continuous testing and continuous security into the delivery pipeline
- Use value stream mapping to measure flow and identify bottlenecks in the end-to-end delivery process
- Select DevOps skills and tools strategically for the fastest, most compelling results
- Prioritize DevOps solutions and investments for greatest economic benefit
- Design and implement a multi-phased DevOps transformation plan tailored to their organization
- Work with all roles and levels in the organization to continually optimize the value stream
Accelerate your DevOps understanding
Scaled Agile partners offer two-day training courses privately at your location or in a public setting for anyone to attend. The course provides a comprehensive overview for understanding the DevOps and release on demand skills needed to accelerate time-to-market by improving the flow of value through the continuous delivery pipeline. Attending the class also unlocks access to the Scaled Agile Community and prepares students to take the exam and become a Certified SAFe® DevOps Practitioner.
Supply Chain Management software. Supply Chain software. Supply Chain Mapping software.
How is supply chain mapping software different?
Anyone that has ever attempted to make a supply chain map knows...
the math is different
The symbols in supply chain software look similar to regular value stream mapping software
(which is used for mapping a value stream that is contained within the four walls of your own organization)
but the math is different.
Some of the math is similar
For example — takt time, cycle time, lead time, pitch, distance between...
If any of these terms are unfamiliar, you can refer to the on-line Lean Glossary and on-line training for Value Stream Analysis
And there is optional math
- Is processing time important?
- Is attention to value add time non-value-add itself?
- Effective Cycle Time? Distance Within?
And there is new math
Demand Screen, Quality Screen, Demand Amplification...
Supply chain math done right
With your Systems2win supply chain mapping tool, all of this similar, optional, and new math has been been (correctly) done for you.
Supply Chain Map Example
Sample Supply Chain Mapping Example
Supply Chain Mapping is now in the VSM Template
As of version 13, the stand-alone Supply Chain Map template was discontinued, and all supply chain mapping charts and functions were merged into the standard Value Stream Mapping template.
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Charts as Supply Chain Management Tools
When you read the book that introduced supply chain value stream mapping,
(Seeing the Whole Value Stream, by Dan Jones and Jim Womack)
you will notice that the most difficult new concepts (to both understand and program) are the charts that are especially useful for supply chain value stream mapping.
If you try to use entry-level value stream mapping software that does little or no math...
then you experience the pleasure of attempting to program these charts yourself.
When you use your Systems2win Supply Chain Value Stream Map...
the charts are pre-programmed and ready to use for Demand Screen, Quality Screen, Demand Amplification Screen, and more.
And because you are working in Excel, you can use everything that you already know about Excel to extend what Systems2win has started — by easily adding your own formulas and charts.
In addition to all of the standard charts for value stream analysis,
you can also optionally unhide 3 additional charts for supply chain management
Quality Screen
Quality Screen is a measure of defects WITHIN each of the processes in the supply chain.
(Often measured in Parts Per Million,
but you can optionally use a different unit of measure)
In addition to the chart... in the 'Chart Data' section, next to the 'Quality Screen' header, you will find the bottom-line 'Quality Screen' number:
Quality Screen = ppm defects farthest from customer divided by ppm defects nearest to customer (rounded to nearest whole number)
In the sample data, this number is 400, which was calculated as: 2000 ppm for Delta Supplier / 5 ppm for Alpha Supplier
Delivery Screen
Delivery Screen is a measure of defects BETWEEN each of the processes in the supply chain.
(Usually measured as a percent of units shipped that are found to be defective upon receipt)
In addition to the chart... in the 'Chart Data' section, next to the 'Delivery Screen' header, you will find the bottom-line 'Delivery Screen' number:
Delivery Screen = % defective shipments farthest from customer divided by % defective shipments nearest to customer
(rounded to nearest whole number)
In the sample data, this number is 5, which was calculated as: 10% for Raw to Delta / 2% for Alpha to Alpha Distribution Center
Demand Amplification Screen
The variability of order size increases as orders move up the supply chain (farther away from the customer), because each system recalculates its schedule based on its own (inherently inaccurate) forecasts based on incomplete and stale information from its downstream customers.
For full training on this concept, refer to the book Seeing the Whole Value Stream, by Dan Jones & Jim Womack — near the end of Part II.
Are you a supply chain captain?
After getting their own Lean act together, so many of our customers have told us that their suppliers became their weak link.
Why not stop complaining about 'forces beyond your control' and start playing a leadership role to coordinate the efforts of your entire supply chain?
This template is not for beginners because supply chain management is not for beginners.
The assuring thing to know is that you can start with the easy tools in your Systems2win toolkit —and you can rest assured that you are mastering a toolset that you will never outgrow.
Supply Chain software in multiple languages
Probably more than any of your other 150+ Systems2win templates for continuous improvement, the Supply Chain template is most likely to benefit from language translations.
Click a button, and now the same template is in Chinese, now Portuguese, now French, now German, now Spanish...
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