Value Streams Toolkit

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Head Value Streams: architecture and develop large scale interactive systems with the latest applications and languages.

More Uses of the Value Streams Toolkit:

  • Steer Value Streams: coach and develop leaders from the front line to the leadership team on performing lean Value Streams through leadership culture and behavior changes, process operating rhythm, and method changes.

  • Use Continuous Improvement methodologies to map current state processes and Value Streams.

  • Manage work with other Product Owners and the Product Management to determine impacts and interdependencies with other teams, programs or Value Streams.

  • Analyze Value Streams performance measurements and communicate opportunities to eliminate barriers, improve production flow, and implement Continuous Improvement projects.

  • Manage work with other Product Owners and the Product Management to determine impacts and interdependencies with other teams, programs or Value Streams.

  • Secure that your organization establishes the Value Streams in scope for the program, and for each Value Stream creates a current state view of Value Stream, capabilities, Master Data, personas, applications, and key Data Flows.

  • Make sure that your organization supports the integration of processes (departments) into appropriately interconnected extended Value Streams.

  • Establish appropriate working relationships with existing and new strategic vendors, deriving the maximum value from negotiated contracts for technology services and products.

  • Orchestrate Value Streams: consistently drive for value in sound engineering decisions.

  • Identify Value Streams: you are known for implementing Process Improvements and adding value to your current organization and see yourself as able and wanting to do more.

  • Pilot Value Streams: articulate the value of BI and analytics solutions across your organization partnering closely with Key Stakeholders in functional areas.

  • Coordinate Value Streams: design specific communication programs to make sure all value produced through the account is rightfully communicated and perceived by all Key Stakeholders (users / c levels / partners/ potential new users and business units).

  • Provide insight and design expertise  to increase the value of service.

  • Ensure your organization stays informed of emerging Cloud Technologies and evaluates value to your organizations operations.

  • Make sure that your enterprise fosters advocacy continues contact with customer after the sale through adoption, deployment, and value review.

  • Be certain that your operation identifies opportunities to increase profits and create value by challenging existing processes, encouraging innovation and driving necessary change.

  • Warrant that your group identifies opportunities to increase profits and create value by challenging existing processes, encouraging innovation and driving necessary change.

  • Ensure your design complies; as appropriate in maintaining independence of the Internal Auditor, provide Consulting Services to management that add value and improve your organizations governance, Risk Management, and control processes.

  • Establish Value Streams: high value on leading with empathy and awareness.

  • Develop, maintain, and continuously improve customer churn, customer acquisition, and customer value models to inform go to market strategy and drive improved profitability.

  • Be accountable for utilizing earned Value Management and other Performance Evaluation systems to control and evaluate acquisition investments.

  • Methodize Value Streams: through all the activities, Data Governance and privacy domain experts ensure that customers understand the uniquE Business value that informatica solutions provide by achieving tangiblE Business outcomes.

  • Write great User Stories by capturing and translating customer stories into product features that deliver value and delights users.

  • Drive value added value engineering projects through your organization that are addressing part obsolescence, quality improvements, and/or Cost Reduction initiatives.

  • Perform Threat Modeling, Security Architecture review to assess security implications and requirements to safeguard high value assets/systems.

  • Ensure your organization builds relationships with Product Development organizations and is recognized by organizations as a key product champion who adds value through exposure to client situations.

  • Initiate Value Streams: act as a key member of the executive leadership team working with all functions on overall Corporate Strategy, tactical implementation of the strategy and adding value across the enterprise.

  • Be accountable for identifying motivators and drivers for Cloud Adoption, identifying systemic Governance challenges and unlocking business value for your customers; Creating compelling Business Cases for the transition to the cloud.

  • Lead Value Streams: many financial advisors are now realizing the value of this product as one of several overall Financial Planning tools.

  • Be accountable for forging and improving positive relationships with internal customers by understanding requirements, expectations and deliver value consistently.

  • Oversee Value Streams: responsibility for portfolio financials, scope, schedule/milestone, resource and Risk Management across multiple projects/work streams e.

  • Ensure your organization monitors and audits user access by gathering information from System Administrators in systems outside the Identity Management Solution.

 

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Value Streams Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step Work Plans and maturity diagnostics for any Value Streams 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 Streams specific requirements:


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Value Streams 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 999 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 Streams improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:

  1. What systems/processes must you excel at?

  2. Why should people listen to you?

  3. What measurements are possible, practicable and meaningful?

  4. Is it clear when you think of the day ahead of you what activities and tasks you need to complete?

  5. How do you verify if Value Streams is built right?

  6. What is it like to work for you?

  7. What do employees need in the short term?

  8. How and when will the baselines be defined?

  9. How can you best use all of your knowledge repositories to enhancE Learning and sharing?

  10. Are the units of measure consistent?


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 Streams book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

Your Value Streams 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 Streams Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Value Streams 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 Streams 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 Streams projects with the 62 implementation resources:

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Cost Management Plan: Eac -estimate at completion, what is the total job expected to cost?

  2. Activity Cost Estimates: In which phase of the Acquisition Process cycle does source qualifications reside?

  3. Project Scope Statement: Will all Value Streams project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?

  4. Closing Process Group: Did the Value Streams Project Team have enough people to execute the Value Streams project plan?

  5. Source Selection Criteria: What are the guidelines regarding award without considerations?

  6. Scope Management Plan: Are Corrective Actions taken when actual results are substantially different from detailed Value Streams project plan (variances)?

  7. Initiating Process Group: During which stage of Risk planning are risks prioritized based on probability and impact?

  8. Cost Management Plan: Is your organization certified as a supplier, wholesaler, regular dealer, or manufacturer of corresponding products/supplies?

  9. Procurement Audit: Was a formal review of tenders received undertaken?

  10. Activity Cost Estimates: What procedures are put in place regarding bidding and cost comparisons, if any?

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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


2.0 Planning Process Group:


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 Streams 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 Streams 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 Streams project with this in-depth Value Streams Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Value Streams 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 Streams 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 Streams investments work better.

This Value Streams 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.