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    What is Value Stream Management and why is it important?

    Agile teams play a key role in value stream management, but not all agile solutions provide the visibility and collaboration it requires. See what Agile teams need to be VSM-ready.

     

    Value Stream Management is the key to accomplishing digital transformation

    Value Stream Management (VSM) capabilities allow even the most complex organizations to reduce misalignment, waste, and poor operational visibility. Common enterprise challenges that VSM solves:

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    Business leaders are often blind to delivery issues like real capacity, dependencies, and risks.

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    Engineering teams often don’t see the long-term strategic roadmap, or the business outcomes they are delivering against.

    Sound familiar? You’re not alone:

    96% of companies have digital transformation initiatives.
    92% are still challenged with poor product visibility and delivery inefficiency.

    Rally Software is a Pillar of VSM

    VSM depends on end-to-end visibility. Rally is the only agile management solution that can manage and steer delivery as it happens by aggregating and clearly presenting data from all your global teams.

    • Reason 1

      Rally - Episode 2 learn how to prioritize product strategy related to execution
      Purpose-driven, enterprise-wide plans – for everyone

      When teams are working in silos with disconnected tools, it’s easy to get sidetracked or misinformed. Unlike many agile management solutions that are solely focused at the team level, Rally’s portfolio-level features empower organizations to prioritize product strategy related to development and optimize the flow of value across all of your company’s products and services.

      78% of employees feel that the business and project requirements are out of sync.1

      Watch the Webinar >

      1. Actuation Consulting Study of Product Team Performance

    • Reason 2

      Rally Episode 3 Learn how product capabilities relate to execution outcomes
      Full traceability across the dev lifecycle – no data scientist required

      Thousands of global teams and planners use Rally to understand how capabilities relate to development outcomes. Only Rally has the trust, maturity, and ability to aggregate and present data that’s critical to guide your value streams, so you can ensure resources are not wasted on unwanted features or anything else that doesn’t obviously and immediately add value.

      “Tie every decision back to the data."
      - Tim Storbierski, Harvard Business School Online

      Watch the Webinar >

    • Reason 3

      Rally Episode 4 Learn to visualize how capabilities processes former planning to delivery
      Unite strategy and execution – from concept to cash

      With Rally, everyone has visibility into how capabilities progress from planning to delivery. Rally directly ties user stories to features to take the guesswork out of status and ROI. You have a better sense of the work that needs to be done and can focus on the efforts that matter most.

      “Good execution starts with making sure information flows where it needs to go.”
      - The Secrets to a Successful Strategy, HBR

      Get Access >

    • Reason 4

      Rally Episode 5 Lear how to identify opportunities to optimize flow for your value streams
      Identify and eliminate bottlenecks to optimize flow

      Rally gives teams (and teams of teams) all the analytics they need to identify issues and accelerate the flow of value through their organization – all in one place. Because Rally is fully integrated with Clarity, you can scale the optimization from individual projects to entire portfolios.

      $1M is wasted every 20 seconds due to the gaps between strategy, design and delivery.2

      Watch the Webinar >


      2. Project Management Institute 2018 10th Global Project Management Survey

       

    Rally - Episode 2 learn how to prioritize product strategy related to execution
    Purpose-driven, enterprise-wide plans – for everyone

    When teams are working in silos with disconnected tools, it’s easy to get sidetracked or misinformed. Unlike many agile management solutions that are solely focused at the team level, Rally’s portfolio-level features empower organizations to prioritize product strategy related to development and optimize the flow of value across all of your company’s products and services.

    78% of employees feel that the business and project requirements are out of sync.1

    Watch the Webinar >

    1. Actuation Consulting Study of Product Team Performance

    Rally Episode 3 Learn how product capabilities relate to execution outcomes
    Full traceability across the dev lifecycle – no data scientist required

    Thousands of global teams and planners use Rally to understand how capabilities relate to development outcomes. Only Rally has the trust, maturity, and ability to aggregate and present data that’s critical to guide your value streams, so you can ensure resources are not wasted on unwanted features or anything else that doesn’t obviously and immediately add value.

    “Tie every decision back to the data."
    - Tim Storbierski, Harvard Business School Online

    Watch the Webinar >

    Rally Episode 4 Learn to visualize how capabilities processes former planning to delivery
    Unite strategy and execution – from concept to cash

    With Rally, everyone has visibility into how capabilities progress from planning to delivery. Rally directly ties user stories to features to take the guesswork out of status and ROI. You have a better sense of the work that needs to be done and can focus on the efforts that matter most.

    “Good execution starts with making sure information flows where it needs to go.”
    - The Secrets to a Successful Strategy, HBR

    Get Access >

    Rally Episode 5 Lear how to identify opportunities to optimize flow for your value streams
    Identify and eliminate bottlenecks to optimize flow

    Rally gives teams (and teams of teams) all the analytics they need to identify issues and accelerate the flow of value through their organization – all in one place. Because Rally is fully integrated with Clarity, you can scale the optimization from individual projects to entire portfolios.

    $1M is wasted every 20 seconds due to the gaps between strategy, design and delivery.2

    Watch the Webinar >


    2. Project Management Institute 2018 10th Global Project Management Survey

     

    Value Stream Management is the key to accomplishing digital transformation.

    Value Stream Management (VSM) capabilities allow even the most complex organizations to reduce misalignment, waste, and poor operational visibility.

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    Increase Visibility

    Business leaders are often blind to delivery issues like real capacity, dependencies, and risks.

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    Increase Visibility

    Engineering teams often don’t see the long-term strategic roadmap, or the business outcomes they are delivering against.

    Rally supports the Four Core Values of SAFe® in multiple ways.

    The four core values of alignment, built-in quality, transparency and program execution represent the fundamental beliefs that are key to the effectiveness of the Scaled Agile Framework. Rally supports all four.

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    Brief: Using VSM to Speed Digital Transformation and Eliminate Silos

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