Tag: flow

Value Stream Management: Treat Your Pipeline as Your Most Important Product

Carmen DeArdo | November 5, 2020 | end to end, flow, technical debt, value, value stream management

When it comes to accelerating customer value, it’s dangerous to focus only on the development and delivery of a digital product. For many enterprises, most time is invested before a single line ...

Does Agile Methodologies Work for IT Infra?

Aditya Vadaganadam | September 18, 2019 | agile infrastructure, flow, infrastructure, IT infrastructure, Lean, WIP limits

Recently, I had a fascinating conversation with my old friend Joe–the name has been changed but the conversation is real and unedited–an IT Infrastructure program manager from a large IT service provider ...

DevOps Best Practices: Break Down Silos, Avoid Drift and Optimize for Flow

John J Balena | May 16, 2014 | best practices, drift, flow, process, silos

In organizations trying to achieve agility with stability and quality, silos (of teams, tools, and processes) create major stumbling blocks to managing configuration drift between pre-production and production systems. Breaking down those ...