I am fascinated with presentation on Value stream mapping as i am from mechanical background transitioned to IT it was amazing explanation on TIMWOOD just awesome!!!!

I feel like the student who is turning in his homework 4 years late. I just re-read 8:22 Toyota Kata by Rother (all the cool guys are named "Mike"). It occurred to me that the perfect metaphor for the Software Manager is the (American) Football Coach. Sure, he will tell you to give "110%". He barks orders just like a budgets and schedules driven Manager who is only interested in putting checkmarks in the task completed box. But there is the other side to Football Coaches. They are happy to give players advice on health, diet, strength and agility training and strategic thinking. They even give extensive exercises to improve in these areas. Coaches live and die by how well their players play. They REALLY want them to be number one. They eat, sleep and breath football. Unlike managers (and software developers) who have an utter distain for domain knowledge (just put it in the specification). Supporting the player and improving his abilities is his number one job. Assuming that the intersection of Football Players and Software Developers is not the null set, would you want your old Football Coach as your Software Manager?

I started looking about the value stream mapping recently. This talk from you provided a very good overview from practical point of view. Thank you very much!

Great presentation Mike! Good overview on how to start a VSM on software development

Thank you sir, that was useful!

Great will be if you can provide links to the books and other recommended materials, videos

Hi Mike, Great presentation. Did you ever got the time to make the video about how to create the VSM in Visio with data coming from an Excel?

Looks very waterfall