Creating Stream Teams around Value Streams

You’ve run an event storming session and identified a lot of independent value streams. Now what?

The first step is to prioritise the value stream to identify which ones need more or less funding. There are three dimensions you can use to prioritise:

1. Strategic importance - does the value stream contribute to your growth, cost cutting or other strategic goals?

2. Market differentiation - does the value stream represent novel functionality or is it table-stakes?

3. Cognitive load - does the value stream contain simple or really complex business rules, logic and other complexities?

With your prioritise in place you can start to identify the people required to support the value stream and therefore how much funding you need. I go into more detail in the article, Creating Stream Teams around Value Streams, below.

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The question was: Do you have visibility of the end-to-end business process for the product you are working on?

63% of people said that there is a lack of end-to-end understanding of the business processes in their company.

As I highlighted last week there are great efficiency gains to be made when people identify the unnecessary duplication and complexity that handoffs create. It might be a tough sell but try pitching an event storming workshop, even with a limited attendee set of attendees. You’ll be surprised by some of the things that you learn.