UpskillingVSM

- Employee engagement surveys :)

I am curious too... to know of any tools for this....

I will say it Employee Experience Survey @lbmkrishna

- Engagement vs Experience? @mbiswajit

Employee experience survey based on organization's core values!!! :)

- How culture could be measured? Is n't the organization how it responds to opportunities and issues?

Engineeribg DevOps Consulting www.engineeringdevops.com assessment model includes 9 pillars including leadership and culture practices.

The Westrum Generative Model is a great model to use as a starting point: https://cloud.google.com/solutions/devops/devops-c... #TheDigitalCoach

- Do not tell me you have Excel spreadsheet :)

I am not aware of any universally agreed scale of cultural readiness/maturity. Surveys and such will give you an indicator of the cultural levels but certainly falls way short of a formal "assessment"

@lbmkrishna hahaha!

:-)

Phoenix Project

Pheonix project and unicorn

I recommend the following: @DEVOPSINST community channel resources and Value Stream Management SKIL Up micro-conferences communities, which are all FREE. Besides, DevOps blogs, Udemy, Coursera, and Pluralsight are all offering FREE resources as well this April.

Come and do a virtual DevOps Foundation course with me....😂 #TheDigitalCoach

Project to Product by Mik Kirsten.

DOI and eBooks for best practices, UDEMY and Linux academy for tech training. my book "Engineering DevOps - from Chaos to Continuous Improvement" by Marc Hornbeek

none I am aware of. Curious if others have seen any

Great question!

I am not aware if there is any but I believe we follow the lean techniques about VSM and who knows we will be having a DevOps VSM after a while and after these conversations? Let me know if you know anything. I am only aware about Value Stream Mapping from DOI. #UpskillingVSM

no silver bullet

We all have unique challenges and every organizations is different.

@DevOpsLeaderPH Do we believe we should initiate a VSM framwork standard?

- I would definitely want to have one. We are all after continuous learning and improvement of quality of life after all. :)

TWo great resources for VSM: The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) and the Scaled Agile Framework: https://www.scaledagileframework.com/value-streams...

I've used Atlassian JIRA to create stories and features and measured how they flow through the development value stream. You can use cumulative flow diagrams to understand where you may need to optimise.

I have an DevOps Assessment sevice using a seven step alignment blueprint that leads organizations to focus on the specific waste that will best serve their business goals for the next leg in the journey of a specific organization.

You can also do the same with a physical Kanban, but it becomes very manual to measure.

KanBan is good anywhere.

This is a great article to follow for some great tips on using Kanban in the context of Agile: https://www.scaledagileframework.com/team-kanban/

@DigitalColmer i am fully in favourable for physical kanban. Ofcos it ends up as a lot manual work, but helps to visualise... Great way to start with..

Improved collaboration and painted the big picture.

I use Kanban as an implementation management tool while in the "realize" phase of the Seven Step Transformation process

I use Kanban to manage all the work for small, medium and large initiatives. The most important thing is to visualise ALL the work...including people development activities.

Automate as much as possible.

- https://www.kaizen.com/blog/post/2018/05/09/muda-m... @DEVOPSINST

But then be aware of the waste in choosing the tools as well. I face this a lot of tines.

Great question! For me it start with value stream mapping and the mindset of the whole organization about shifting left and using lean techniques as guide. Deming cycle or continuous improvements efforts and automation are helpful! ;)

I've always depended on the "Why" question. I was surprised how many people do stuff just because without understanding the WHY.

My top tips are....don't overuse email and try 30 minute meetings instead of 1 hour meetings.

- Here is great post basedon Mary and Tom Poppendieck https://www.equinox.co.nz/blog/mary-poppendieck-wh...

@DEVOPSINST - Here is the book :) https://www.amazon.com/Leading-Lean-Software-Devel...

@DigitalColmer

I find easier to see bottlenecks and opportunity for improvements when I draw a VS. Management loves it as they can see what is happening.

It will be great to start with specific product that which is visible but with manageable risk. The benefits is that you will be able to build things right and build the right things. You will be able to improve the end to end flow from idea to business value realization.

Every industry and every business area can gain value from VSM. It allows you to understand the flow of information and value, and help your teams identify and talk about forms of waste....#TheDigitalCoach

VSM is all about continuous improvement and evolution as we introduce changes to our value delivery flow. The starting point is to assess the current state, find gaps, calculate gains and incrementally build upon.

I find the best way to show the value of VSM is with any onboarding activity, where there are so many activities, tools, data and people interconnected. Easy to loose track.

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Define governance policies and use VSM to automate them

@DEVOPSINST - I am fan of Muda, Muri, Mura - example how many variations we have in our processes, how many forms to get the single thing done in your organizations - a good start