Value stream management. Okay, I admit it. I hadn’t heard of this term before – and I have three business degrees. It definitely rings of a B-school term and sounds interesting. I have also listened to Helen Beal’s previous All Day DevOps sessions, so I knew she would be interesting. Side note: she mentioned today that she has presented at every ADDO except one, which she intended to but hoped to present from a rickshaw in Sri Lanka, which ended up not being possible. I think we need the rest of that story.
Thankfully Helen presented this morning at the 6th annual All Day DevOps conference in a talk entitled Flow Acceleration, Value Realization. Helen was recognized as the Top DevOps Evangelist in 2020 because of her extensive work in the space. She is currently a DevOps and Ways of Working coach, Chief Ambassador at DevOps Institute and an ambassador for the Continuous Delivery Foundation. Or, as she says, a Herder of Humans (apparently the only one).
Helen’s…