Category Flow
The Theory of Constraints and the Flow Framework
I last posted about The Theory of Constraints (ToC) back in 2022 (see https://davebrowettagile.wordpress.com/2022/01/04/the-goal/). Eli Goldratt wrote “The Goal” back in 1984 (forty years ago!) and used a novel-like format to tell a story in which a production plant manager found ways to improve performance by focussing on the constraints, the bottlenecks that limited production […]
Flow@Scale – Dynamic Realtime Data to drive a set of Financial Throughput Generators
For his Flow@Scale approach Steve Tendon proposes instead of Value Stream Mapping we should look to produce “Dynamic Realtime Data to drive a set of Financial Throughput Generators”. This post is to explore this in more detail. Flow@Scale considers a portfolio as a set of financial throughput generators – that is to say products, services […]
Flow@Scale – Throughput Economics
Throughput Economics is a methodology based on the Theory of Constraints that challenges conventional thinking about evaluating costs, risks, and rewards in business decisions. Developed by Eli Schragenheim, Henry Camp, and Rocco Surace, it addresses the misuse and abuse of traditional cost accounting practices. Within the Flow@Scale context Steve Tendon describes Throughput Economics as “the ratio […]
Flow@Scale vs SAFe
In my last post I introduced Flow@Scale which was recently launched by Steve Tendon. In the past I’ve written several posts on SAFe, my thinking being that it is the most established Scaled Agile Framework. Steve Tendon has recently written several posts comparing Flow@Scale with SAFe and I will attempt to summarise them here – […]
Flow@Scale
I posted about Tameflow a couple of weeks ago and last week posted about Probabilistic Forecasting. This wasn’t random 🙂 – I was waiting for the launch of Steve Tendon’s new initiative “Flow@Scale”! With Flow@Scale Steve obviously builds on top of principles that he’s championed with Tameflow, most significantly the “Theory Of Constraints” is key. […]
Tameflow
I’ve recently been introduced to the world of Tameflow (https://tameflow.com). Maybe I should have known about it earlier but for some reason it’s the first I’ve heard about it. The author of Tameflow is Steve Tendon and, as you’d expect, he has a lot of points to make and examples to provide in a compelling […]
Achieving Organizational alignment from Ideation to Customer Value Realization
Related to my previous post, Laureen Knudsen (Chief Transformation Officer of Broadcom) recently posted an article in Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2024/01/24/organizational-alignment-from-ideation-to-customer-value-realization. No coincidence this as the content chimes closely in step with my last post on Broadcom’s VSM Maturity Model. It’s a well-written article that makes some clear and compelling points, including the importance of getting business […]
Value realisation (6) – five steps to value
So – to summarise this last series of posts, here are my five steps to value 1) We need to be able to describe the value that is being delivered. If we can’t describe it then how are we going to know when it’s been delivered? We also need to be able to describe this […]
Value realisation (5) – does delivering features mean delivering value?
In my last post I wrote about imagining where we were able to deploy weekly and had quarterly governance. I outlined a delivery schedule where are were able to deliver features across these weekly deployments. But does delivering features directly equate to delivering value? In previous posts I’ve described the “goldilocks” size for features (see […]
What is Value (2023) (10) – Summary
It’s very difficult to assess and compare value! Over my last few posts I’ve looked at several perspectives and each one has a dimension and/or impact to value. It is “easier” to compare in monetary terms, far harder to compare in any other way. There is always likely to be a time element to value […]
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