Value Stream Management has been around since the dawn of lean – but it’s different in the digital world. Digital value streams need a different treatment, and DevOps toolchains mean we have more opportunities to gain actionable insights and deliver value outcomes to our customers than ever before. DevOps Institute, a member of PeopleCert Group is pleased to offer this certification in partnership with the VSM Consortium.
An introduction to value stream management principles, practices, and tools. Designed to optimize value flow and realization in digital value streams and develop individuals’ skills. Digital value streams include the software applications and services in addition to the platforms that support them e.g., cloud infrastructure or DevOps toolchains.
OVERVIEW
The Value Stream Management Foundation course from Value Stream Management Consortium, and offered in partnership with DevOps Institute, is an introductory course taking learners through a value stream management implementation journey. It considers the human, process, and technology aspects of this way of working and explores how optimizing value streams for flow and realization positively impacts organizational performance.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
With Value Stream Management Foundation, you will learn about:
- The history and evolution of VSM
- Identifying value streams
- Mapping value streams
- Connecting DevOps toolchains
- Value stream metrics
- Inspecting the value stream
- Organising as value streams
- Evolving value streams
- Describe the origins of value stream management and key concepts such as flow, value, and delivery
- Describe what value stream management is, why it’s needed and the business benefits of its practice
- Describe how lean, agile, DevOps, and ITSM principles contribute to value stream management
- Identify and describe value streams, where they start and end, and how they interconnect
- Identify value stream roles and responsibilities
- Express value streams visually using mapping techniques, define current and target states and hypothesis backlog
- Write value stream flow and realization optimization hypotheses and experiments
- Apply metrics such as touch/processing time, wait/idle time, and cycle time to value streams
- Understand flow metrics and how to access the data to support data-driven conversations and decisions
- Examine value realization metrics and aligning to business outcomes, and how to sense and respond to them (outcomes versus outputs)
- Architect a DevOps toolchain alongside a value stream and data connection points
- Design a continuous inspection and adaptation approach for organizational evolution
Benefits for Organisations
- Improve performance, especially in response to digital transformation or disruption
- Enhance the creation and delivery of products or services
Benefits for Individuals
- Understand the VSM language, core concepts, and key practices
- Learn how to identify and organise around value streams
- Learn how to map value streams
- Learn how to connect your DevOps toolchain and measure it,
- Discover how to apply DevOps practices to accelerate time to value and learning
- Learn how to effectively use metrics to inspect, adapt and evolve capability
LEARNER MATERIALS
● Digital Learner Manual including:
○ Course slideware
○ Value-Added Resources
○ Interactive exercises and discussions designed to apply concepts
○ Case stories
○ Glossary
○ Sample exam(s)
● Access to additional sources of information
● Option to join the DevOps Institute and Value Stream Management Consortium membership communities
AUDIENCE
People working in an organization aiming to improve performance, especially in response to digital transformation or disruption. Any roles involved in the creation and delivery of
products or services:
● Leadership and CXO, especially CIO, CTO, CPO, and CVO
● Transformation and evolution leads and change agents
● Value stream architects, managers, engineers
● Scrum Masters, agile and DevOps coaches and facilitators
● Portfolio, product and project managers, and owners
● Business analysts
● Architects, developers, and engineers
● Release and environment managers
● IT Ops, service and support desk workers
● Customer experience and success professionals
CERTIFICATION EXAM
Successfully passing (65%) the 60-minute examination, consisting of 40 multiple-choice questions, leads to the candidate receiving their Value Stream Management Foundation certification and digital badge. The certification is governed and maintained in partnership with DevOps Institute.
PREREQUISITES
None, although having a working knowledge of lean, agile, DevOps, and value stream principles will be useful.
What else is included with your exam purchase
This certification offers the free-of-charge Digital Badge service.
The digital badge will allow you to showcase your professional certification acquired through PeopleCert to potential employers, colleagues and your business network. It can be added on your email signature, your CV, your LinkedIn and other social media accounts.
Sample Certificate:
