Understanding Enterprise Organization 4 Key groups - 2 Types of work - 5 Chapters across a transformational journey

1. Why Is It Hard To Start Enterprise Software Conversations?
Paul@Peissner.com

2. Why Is It Hard To Start Enterprise Software Conversations?
So, Where Exactly
Do We Start, To Fix
Enterprise Software?
And Why?

3. Everyone Has A Different Perspective to Make Software Better

4. There Are Many Different Agendas In Making Software Better

5. Forrester Report Jan. 2020 – Holistic Solutions Drive The "Value" In Value Stream Management - Where’s the “Value” in your Value Stream?
There Are Many Different Roles Involved…In Making Software Better

6. Leadership Supporting Growth/ProfitsLeadership Monitoring Processes (Risk, Cost…)
IT Engineering and Software Services Product-driven / Customer-centric App-Dev
Let’s Break The Conversations Into 4 Key Groups And Understand Their Focus

7. Leadership Supporting Growth/Profits (External)
 A holistic view of the processes and practices with
visibility across all engineering with guardrails,
guidance and detailed activity traceability
 VSM monitoring and notifications tied to
custom thresholds across Streams of work
supporting continuous (process) improvement
 Consolidated strategies leveraging a unified data
model to make all work visible and trackable
 Scaling and sustaining VSM engineering practices
with global teams and diverse types of different
kinds of work, toolchains, methodologies and
continuous (quality/systems) improvements
Leadership Monitoring Processes (Internal)
Engineering and Software Services
 Iterative releases that adapt and adjust to make high-
performing teams more visible and predictable across
portfolio disciplines
 VSM managing high-velocity team-oriented
outputs to support collaboration and continuous
(team performance) improvements
Dev Product-driven and Customer-centric
 Visibility and alignment of changing and pivoting
team flows and portfolio streams
 Industry validation (Forrester Wave and Gartner Magic
Quadrant™ positioning, comparisons and Thought
leadership, and focused on helping continuous (go-to-
market) improvements
Value Streams Mgt: Business ConnectedValue Stream Services: Optimization
Value Flow Systems: Connecting Pipelines/Tools Value Flow Management: Full-flow Visibility
Understanding Agendas And Perspectives Of The 4 Key Groups

8. There Are 2 Types Of Work That Need To be Managed By The 4 Key Groups

9. There Are 2 Types Of Work That Need To be Managed By The 4 Key Groups
Team (activity) Flow
Foundational
Process (toolchain) Flow
Foundational
Strategic
Stream Guidance
Strategic
Streaming Portfolio Mgt
Foundational
Strategic

10. A Stream Journey With 5 Chapters That Build Value
1 2 3 4 5
Monitoring, Managing and Measuring Across A Holistic Process

11. A Collaborative Journey Across 4 Key Groups
Value Stream Portfolio:
Business Connected
Value Stream Services:
Process optimization
Value Flow Systems:
Connecting Pipelines
Value Flow Mgt:
Full-flow Visibility
Flow Success Metrics
- KPI’s Key Performance Indicators
- Team Output (i.e. velocity…)
Stream Success Metrics
- OKR’s Objectives and Key Results
- Business or Corporate Outcomes
1 2 3 4 5
Monitoring, Managing and Measuring 2 Types Of Work By The 4 Key Groups

12. How To Get Holistic Software Conversations Started With The 4 Groups
Agile
Lean
Foundational
Strategic
Opportunity to Outcome
#2 What
#3 Who #4 How
#1 Why
The more you know the why behind
what you’re creating, the more
effective the outcomes will be. Design sustainable streams of continuous
flow from prioritized opportunities, through
build, delivery and linked to outcomes, where
collaborative teams can easily navigate
through changes and challenges, to deliver
quality and value with optimal efficiency.
Define A Flexible Lean-Flow System of Record
with the Intelligence and traceability to support
your processes, tools and the toolchain flows
that can fit your Software Strategies
Create A Flexible Agile-Flow Model
that accommodates your practices, teams,
skills and the flows that support your
practices and Software Strategies
Starting Your Value Stream Efforts…

13. Value Stream Management is key for both
- internal lean optimization and
- external pivot-ready business agility!
Holistic Enterprise Software Conversations Flow Better With A VSM Strategy
Questions?