Accelerating Value Delivery in Highly Complex Domains

This paper provides practical guidance on how to apply Lean, Agile, and Industrial DevOps (IDO) concepts to enable organizations developing large solutions in complex domains to organize around value, so they can maximize the delivery of value with the least amount of time and effort.

This paper provides an example, based on a missile system, of how to go from an operational value stream to the nested development value streams that build and deliver the solutions within the operational value stream, to an organizational design and Lean/Agile operating system that enables optimal execution of those value streams. If you are experiencing challenges in value stream identification, decomposition, and organization design, our intent is that you can use the information in this paper to help guide your reasoning process.

The paper concludes with a discussion on additional topics to consider when designing value streams to ensure that the time investment made is set up to deliver high-quality solutions at the speed of relevance. By sharing this information, we hope to deepen the understanding in our community on how to leverage the power of value streams in the delivery of large solutions in complex domains.

Special gratitude to our reviewers. We appreciate your time and contributions: JB Brockman, Rune Christensen, Nicolas Friberg, Harry Koehnemann, Marc Rix, and Glenn Smith.