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Value Stream Canvas Exercise

By Dominica Degrandis, Carmen DeArdo, Mik Kersten

A Companion to Project to Product

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This companion exercise to the book Project to Product is designed to help teams visualize problems that occur during handoffs as work flows across a value stream. In other words, it shows leaders and teams decide how to make important and necessary connections visible to provoke necessary conversations for change. It provides a practical learning experience for how teams can start applying concepts from the Flow FrameworkTM, a framework created by Mik Kersten, as detailed in Project to Product.

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  • Pages 11

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This companion exercise to the book Project to Product is designed to help teams visualize problems that occur during handoffs as work flows across a value stream. In other words, it shows leaders and teams decide how to make important and necessary connections visible to provoke necessary conversations for change. It provides a practical learning experience for how teams can start applying concepts from the Flow FrameworkTM, a framework created by Dr. Mik Kersten, as detailed in Project to Product.

Dominica Degrandis
Carmen DeArdo
Mik Kersten
Dominica Degrandis

Dominica Degrandis

Dominica DeGrandis is the foremost expert in Kanban Flow within the IT industry today. Her work has shown working IT teams how effectively improve workflow and optimize throughput to produce the best result throughout the value stream. Her passion involves the use of visual cues and transparency across teams and organizations to reveal mutually critical information. As Director of Training & Coaching at LeanKit, Dominica combines experience, practice and theory to help teams level up their capability. She blogs at ddegrandis.com and tweets at @dominicad.

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Carmen DeArdo

Carmen DeArdo

Author, VSM Consulting

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Mik Kersten

Mik Kersten

Dr. Mik Kersten started his career as a Research Scientist at Xerox PARC where he created the first aspect-oriented development environment. He then pioneered the integration of development tools with Agile and DevOps as part of his Computer Science PhD at the University of British Columbia. Founding Tasktop out of that research, Mik has written over one million lines of open-source code that is still in use today, and he has brought seven successful open-source and commercial products to market. Mik’s experiences working with some of the largest digital transformations in the world has led him to identify the critical disconnect between business leaders and technologists. Since that time, Mik has been working on creating new tools and a new framework for connecting software value stream networks and enabling the shift from project to product. Mik lives with his family in Vancouver, Canada, and travels globally, sharing his vision for transforming how software is built.

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