Your organisation wants to deliver sooner, create value faster, produce less waste; it wants to be more "lean" than its competitors. But how do you get there from here? First of all, you have to know where you are, where you lose time, and where you create value or waste. A value stream map gives you a clear view on your whole process, so that you can find the places to optimize and see the effects of your ongoing improvement efforts. In this session, we apply value stream mapping to real situations brought in by the participants.

In this session, we are going to use value stream mapping to analyse one or more existing processes or product lines brought in by the participants. The goal of this workshop is to apply and evaluate value stream mapping as a tool for understanding business value creation in a complete software development organisation from requirements to delivery. With the participants, we will look for delays and non-value adding work. Participants have an opportunity to share experiences in a structured way. We use simple tools like index cards to prevent discussion about drawing techniques and enable all attendees to participate in creating a value stream map.

Please note, this session has a maximum of 40 participants. Places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.