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How Value Streams Help You See and Improve Flow

 

You can’t improve what you can’t see.

This is the fourth article in our series, From Busy to Flowing, which explores how to unlock sustainable agility by improving how work flows through your organization—not just how busy your teams are.

So far, we’ve:

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Want More Work Done Sooner? Remember, Cash Can’t Code!

Cash Can't Code!Cash Can’t Code!”  A colleague of mine (Chris Conrad) once told me this. The context of our discussion was about leveraging more resources to complete a large book of work by the end of the year. His main point is clear, having money to throw at the problem wasn’t going…

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Cross-Functional vs. T-Shaped: Are They the Same Concept?

As an agile coach I work with many companies and the terms “cross-functional” and “T-Shaped” get tossed about quite a bit. Do they mean the same thing? Certainly, many people use them synonymously.

To avoid confusion when organizing agile teams and larger agile…

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