Inspire, develop, and guide a winning organization.
Create visible workflows to achieve well-architected software.
Understand and use meaningful data to measure success.
Integrate and automate quality, security, and compliance into daily work.
Understand the unique values and behaviors of a successful organization.
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Learn how to enhance collaboration and performance in large-scale organizations through Flow Engineering
Learn how making work visible, value stream management, and flow metrics can affect change in your organization.
Clarify team interactions for fast flow using simple sense-making approaches and tools.
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Learn how to enhance collaboration and performance in large-scale organizations through Flow Engineering—a systematic approach for identifying value, building clarity, and enabling smooth delivery across teams. This comprehensive course teaches you five powerful mapping techniques that help teams visualize workflows, uncover constraints, and implement targeted improvements. Through hands-on exercises and real-world examples, you'll learn how to:
- Align teams around clear, valuable outcomes
- Map and measure value streams to identify bottlenecks
- Analyze dependencies that impact performance
- Design improved future states
- Create actionable roadmaps for change
Whether you're an IT leader, manager, engineer, product owner, or agile coach, this course will equip you with practical tools and techniques to break through organizational inertia and lead transformative improvements. Join us to discover how Flow Engineering can help your teams collaborate more effectively and deliver greater value to customers. The course includes detailed instruction, interactive exercises, and expert guidance from experienced practitioners Andrew Davis and Steve Pereira. Start your journey toward better flow today.
Master proven techniques to break down silos and enable seamless coordination across departments, turning organizational complexity from a burden into an advantage.
Learn to create powerful visual maps that reveal hidden bottlenecks, dependencies, and improvement opportunities in your workflows.
Develop essential skills to guide teams through transformative change while building trust and maintaining momentum across the organization.
Acquire concrete methods to identify, measure, and systematically improve the metrics that matter most to your organization's success.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Flow Engineering Lesson 2: Common Challenges of Collaboration at Scale Lesson 3: The Three Elements of Action Lesson 4: Overview of the Five Key Maps Lesson 5: Flow Engineering as Leadership Training Exercise 1: Identifying Flow Engineering Opportunities
Lesson 6: Introduction to Outcome Mapping Lesson 7: Outcome Discovery: What is Our Target? Lesson 8: Defining the Target Outcome: Setting Goals Lesson 9: Identifying Benefits: Why Does This Matter? Lesson 10: Identifying Obstacles: What Could Get in the Way? Lesson 11: Determining Next Steps: How to Proceed Exercise 2: Creating Your Team's Outcome Map
Lesson 12: Introduction to Value Stream Mapping Lesson 13: Stream Selection: Identifying Your Value Stream Lesson 14: Mapping Activities: Laying Out Steps and Processes Lesson 15: Adding Timing: Cycle Times and Wait Times Lesson 16: Adding Dimensions Lesson 17: Highlighting Constraints & Identifying Hot Spots Exercise 3: Creating A Rapid Value Stream Map
Lesson 18: Introduction to Dependency Mapping Lesson 19: Digging Deeper: Dependency Diplomacy Lesson 20: Dependency Mapping Exercise 4: Creating Your Team's Dependency Map
Lesson 21: Introduction to Future State Mapping Lesson 22: Reviewing Target Outcome and Current Findings Lesson 23: Identifying Improvement Opportunities Lesson 24: Redesigning the Stream: Proposed Changes Lesson 25: Measuring your Future State: Expected Benefits Exercise 5: Creating Your Team's Future State Value Stream Map
Lesson 26: Introduction to Flow Roadmapping Lesson 27: Identifying and Prioritizing Improvement Opportunities Lesson 28: Assigning Ownership and Measuring Progress Exercise 6: Creating Your Team's Flow Roadmap
Lesson 29: Practical Tips for Facilitating Mapping Sessions Lesson 30: Common Traps and How to Avoid Them Lesson 31: Scaling Flow Engineering in Your Organization Exercise 7: Review Your Flow Engineering Program
Andrew is Chief Product Officer at AutoRABIT, focused on the next generation of DevSecOps on the Salesforce platform. He is also the author of the leading book on the Salesforce development lifecycle, Mastering Salesforce DevOps. He was formerly Senior Director of Methodology and Training at Copado.
Steve Pereira has spent over two decades improving the flow of work across organizations. He’s worked through tech support, IT management, build and release engineering, and as a founding CTO for enterprise SaaS. He serves as lead consultant for Visible Value Stream Consulting, as a board advisor to the Value Stream Management Consortium, Chair of the OASIS Value Stream Management Interoperability technical committee, and co-founder of the Flow Collective to bring flow-focused professionals together. Since 2017, he has been developing and facilitating Flow Engineering to make flow improvement in large organizations accessible, collaborative, and actionable.
Associate Director, Cloud at EBRD
Founder & CEO, Sussna Associates, and Author of Designing Delivery