Value Stream Mapping Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Value Stream Mapping Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Value Stream Mapping related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Value Stream Mapping specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Value Stream Mapping Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 994 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Value Stream Mapping improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 994 standard requirements:


1. Which is the process of continuously improving and detailing a plan as more detailed and specific information and more accurate estimates become available as the project progresses?
   
   

2. What can be done to eliminate or reduce the identified wastes in the product customization Value Stream and what impact would that make on shortening the total lead time?
   
   

3. What baseline metrics do you need to establish in order to enable a sustainable method of measuring the outcomes of your transformation actions?
   
   

4. Are your value streams full of waste triggered by repetitive negative testing outcomes and/or by a weak testing process itself?
   
   

5. How do industrial engineers identify the challenges faced in the everyday application of lean and Six Sigma in manufacturing?
   
   

6. What happens if the chain is broken and a prior step cannot provide the needed product to the next step in the process?
   
   

7. What other issues has the Value Stream Mapping process surfaced that may have otherwise gone unnoticed or unresolved?
   
   

8. How does the VSM relate to your organizational chart and, the other way around, your organizational chart to the VSM?
   
   

9. What are the most critical wastes in a software product customization Value Stream and what typically causes wastes?
   
   

10. Is VSM an appropriate technique to develop the lean implementation strategies under high product mix environment?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Value Stream Mapping book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Value Stream Mapping self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Value Stream Mapping Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Value Stream Mapping areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Value Stream Mapping Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Value Stream Mapping projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Value Stream Mapping Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Value Stream Mapping project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Team Member Performance Assessment: What are best practices for delivering and developing training evaluations to maximize the benefits of leveraging emerging technologies?
   
   

2. Probability and Impact Matrix: Which of your Value Stream Mapping projects should be selected when compared with other Value Stream Mapping projects?
   
   

3. Schedule Management Plan: Are schedule performance measures defined including pre-set triggers for specific actions?
   
   

4. Change Management Plan: What risks may occur upfront, during implementation and after implementation?
   
   

5. Communications Management Plan: Will messages be directly related to the release strategy or phases of the Value Stream Mapping project?
   
   

6. Activity Duration Estimates: Are Value Stream Mapping project activities decomposed into manageable components to ensure expected management control?
   
   

7. Activity Duration Estimates: What are the three main outputs of quality control?
   
   

8. Project Charter: Review the general mission What system will be affected by the improvement efforts?
   
   

9. Closing Process Group: Does the close educate others to improve performance?
   
   

10. Project Performance Report: To what degree are sub-teams possible or necessary?


 
Step-by-step and complete Value Stream Mapping Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Value Stream Mapping project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Value Stream Mapping project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Value Stream Mapping project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Value Stream Mapping project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Value Stream Mapping project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Value Stream Mapping project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Value Stream Mapping project with this in-depth Value Stream Mapping Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Value Stream Mapping projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Value Stream Mapping and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Value Stream Mapping investments work better.

This Value Stream Mapping All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.