DevOps & Product Thinking - Improving the Whole Value Stream

Organizations are looking to deliver more ideas more quickly.  DevOps, for many, seems to be the silver bullet, streamlining the time from code complete to into production. But is that enough?  What if we are building the wrong thing?

In this 2-day, hands on workshop you will experience how to visualize your complete value delivery (value stream).  From there you will understand how to optimize not only your operational aspects of your products but also this creative side - giving you a product development flow that allows rapid learning in context of delivering value to your customers.

You will learn:

• What is a product, how it differes from a service, and how to set up flows to support both
  

• Visualizing the delivery of value in your organization and identifying constraints
  

• Strategies for measuring impact of choices
  

• Blending product thinking into architecture and delivery, in one team and across teams
  

You will use:

• Value Stream Mapping to visualize the delivery of value and identify bottlenecks
  
• System thinking to understand the dependencies across groups
  
• Process control charts to understand the voice of the process and identify special case variance
  
• Modeling to show how DevOps and Product Thinking intersect

All exercises will be done in small groups.

Who should attend:

• Managers and executives lookign to understand the real constraints in their organization
• Product Owners / Managers looking to understand how to blend product thinking into delivery within and across teams
• People of all backgrounds that want to understand how to create meaningful measurements for change
  

About the instructor:

Joel Tosi is a hands-on technical product coach.  He coaches and pairs with teams to apply XP, lean, and agile practices to drive product learning, quell the noise around environments and tech, and help teams build more impactful products.  Joel's history as a builder spans roles from financial companies such as CME to open source companies like Red Hat.