Cross-talk hurts VSM adoption
Value stream management has a messaging problem. That was a key takeaway from the recent {virtual} VSMcon 2022, hosted by SD Times last month. What is a value stream? What is value? Which metrics matter? Is it a tooling thing? A people thing? We empaneled some industry experts at the conference to look at the … continue reading
Report: Digital Product Management finds its footing
The relatively new practice of digital product management is helping organizations better achieve their objectives by shifting to a product-focused business model, according to a new report from Dimensional Research, sponsored by Broadcom Software. Digital product management (DPM) encompasses traditional product management, but adds continuous improvement through experimentation and validation, as well as relying on … continue reading
SD Times Healthcare Industry Handbook
Table of Contents: 3 Technology takes health care into the 21st century 4 Cyber security steals the limelight as health care goes digital 6 Solving the data interoperability problem 8 The future of smart hospitals beyond COVID 10 CData tackles health data connectivity 12 Customer-centric cosmetics: How digital solutions can deliver a health care experience … continue reading
What role do developers have in value stream management?
From an organizational level, creating and managing value streams plays an important role in eliminating wasteful processes and the time they take, enabling the company to focus on delivering value to their customers. At software companies – which many, many companies are today – the primary role of developers is delivering that value, in the … continue reading
Infrastructure as Code: Keeping developers productive, keeping organizations safe
Developers have always had a need for infrastructure. But with the need to update applications or websites quickly to take advantage of changing market conditions, the idea of asking IT to spin up an environment and having to wait sometimes days for it no longer works for organizations trying to keep pace. In short, developer … continue reading
All work and no play makes developers burn out
Remote and distributed work. The COVID-19 pandemic. The rise of millennials into the workplace. The complexity of tools. “We saw these trends, and it was leading to things like burnout, and people having negative experiences at work, because the tools and the day-to-day experience weren’t keeping up with these trends,” said Jennifer Dennard, co-founder of … continue reading
Developers need learning, skills to tackle security
Pieter Danhieux has an impressive background in cybersecurity. And he acknowledges that when it comes to building software, problems in the code lead to security issues. Yet he blames this problem not on the developers themselves, but on what he has seen as “a lot of things we’ve done wrong with developers.” Organizations, he said, … continue reading
Melissa adds Profiler to its Unison customer data platform
Data is becoming ever more important to organizations that do heavy customer service and outreach, yet the quality of that data often is poor. Whether it’s users intentionally filling fields with garbage, or the user’s lack of understanding of how the system wants an address filled out, companies find that much of their outbound communication … continue reading
Remember ‘people over processes’
Here we are, late January, with a “bomb cyclone” weather pattern about to drop a foot or more of snow on us here in New York. What better time to hunker down and reflect on the last year and to determine what is really important in the year ahead? Many – if not most – … continue reading
Accurate data isn’t enough — it needs to be actionable
As the COVID-19 pandemic has shut down offices, people have taken to working remotely, and many have even moved from locations where the cost of living is high to places where it’s more manageable. This raises the issue of data quality, not only in terms of the accuracy of data being input into fields in … continue reading
How these tools facilitate value stream management
We asked these tool providers to share more information on how their solutions help companies with their value streams. Their responses are below. Laureen Knudsen, chief transformation officer at Broadcom ValueOps from Broadcom is the leading Value Stream Management Platform that allows large organizations to deploy and execute a “true” value stream management strategy. Only … continue reading
Value Stream Management: The practice that finally unites business and IT
Some 86% of respondents to a Broadcom survey on value stream management indicated they are not doing value stream management right now. To that, Lance Knight would say, “Yes, you are. You just don’t know it yet.” Knight, the COO of value stream platform provider ConnectALL, said if a company is already evaluating their processes … continue reading
