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Steve Pereira - The Value Stream Guy
CEO at Visible
Toronto, Canada
Helping teams see, build, and enable Clarity, Value and Flow across the organization.
For over 20 years I've been empowering business with tech and humanizing software. I advise ambitious (and struggling) software delivery teams to increase their performance, agility, and delivered value. How? I map their path from current state to true north.
I focus on two primary areas to drive exceptional business outcomes: Flow and value. Value Stream Thinking and methodologies, augmented by continuous improvement and performance.
Available For: Advising, Authoring, Consulting, Influencing, Speaking Travels From: Toronto, ON Speaking Topics: Technical and Strategic Leadership, Flow Engineering, DevOps, Digital / Cloud / Delivery Transformation, Software Delivery / Value Stream Automation,
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Unlocking Organizational Potential: The Power of Collective Value Stream Mapping
IT Revolution
July 30, 2024
In the world of chess, mastering the game involves developing a deep understanding of the board, the pieces, and the countless strategies available. As players progress, they begin to form mental models, allowing them to visualize the entire game in their minds. This ability to think and strategize without relying on the physical board is what separates the masters from the novices.
Calculating the ROI of Flow Engineering
IT Revolution
June 18, 2024
Let’s say after mapping using the techniques from Flow Engineering you identify three high-priority, relatively simple improvements to implement right away. It will likely take at least three months to see measurable progress. Then, with three more months of progress and operation, you’ll have enough data and experience with the current state that you can map it again and look to a new outcome. In six months, you’ll have made enough progress that you’ll have a new desired outcome and will have found new bottlenecks to identify and tackle.
We Can Only Improve What We See
IT Revolution
May 28, 2024
The primary challenge in business is how to enable a group of people to work together effectively to deliver value to customers. Value is defined as benefit compared with cost. Large organizations tend to organize people into functional groups and hand work across in a sort of relay race from customer need to customer satisfaction. The problem with these functional silos is they end up operating not as a single relay team but as entirely separate teams that train independently and may have differing goals.
The Three Elements of Effective Action
IT Revolution
May 21, 2024
As we presented in a previous post, scale brings many challenges. But perhaps the most insidious are the difficulties of developing and sustaining value, clarity, and flow, the fundamental elements of effective individual and collective action.
Value, Clarity, and Flow
Value informs direction, clarity provides understanding, and flow lets us get things done.
Introducing Flow Engineering
IT Revolution
May 14, 2024
Five key Flow Engineering maps enable the three elements of action:
1. Outcome Map: To identify your target outcome.
2. Current State Value Stream Map: To reveal the current state and constraints of your workflow.
3. Dependency Map: To identify dependencies by studying constraints.
4. Future State Value Stream Map: To create a future state definition of flow.
5. Flow Roadmap: To organize insights, actions, and ownership into an improvement roadmap.
Why We Wrote Flow Engineering
IT Revolution
April 30, 2024
We have both traveled very different professional journeys. Yet from our experiences and our dialogue, three big ideas have emerged: the need for value, clarity, and flow in our work. These ideas felt familiar to both of us, but we’d never been able to articulate them before. Over the course of our careers, we have found that many of the people we’ve encountered have had similar moments where an ah-ha or piece of the puzzle has fallen into place, and they, too, recognized the need for value, clarity, and flow. Here are our stories, which might feel familiar in some way, shape, or form to your own. They provide the backstory to how the practice of Flow Engineering came to be.
Moneyball for Flow
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September 15, 2022
Moneyball is a book (and movie - such a good soundtrack!) I come back to as a framework to approach knowledge work. In both cases, teams are facing incredible challenges with little resource...
Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation
Question time! How do you transition your operating model from waterfall to something more agile?
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September 14, 2022
From a recent community post:
Does anyone have any ideas or references for setting up the operating model (or team structure) when we are trying to move an organization from waterfall ways ...
Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation
The Flow Engineering Course - End to End Case
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August 17, 2021
Case: Ambitious Software Delivery Team
Let's look at the example of a team aiming to boost their performance:Mapping connects all the perspectives involved in improvement and brings them to...
Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation
DevOps is dead, long live DevOps
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June 29, 2021
By now, #DevOps shouldn't be a word you hear in your organization, and if you do, see if you can steer conversation towards specifics:Focus and get specific!
Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation
The Who of Value Stream Mapping
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June 25, 2021
Who participates in mapping?
It’s important to involve representation from at least the responsible and accountable parties within a given value stream. That means if design is a part of th...
Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation
Outcome Mapping 101
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June 25, 2021
The highest performing companies build alignment around three questions: Why are we doing this? What should we do? How do we implement the transformation?
Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation
Model Challenge
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March 10, 2021
Hey folks, I've been running into this mental model challenge more and more recently. Thinking about how to explain how we got here, and how we've struggled for so long with agility and real...
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How is Value Stream Mapping different from EventStorming?
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March 09, 2021
I spent some time today mapping out the similarities and differences between Value Stream Mapping and EventStorming. It's remarkable how similar they seem, and I think the way I've been doin...
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Value Stream Link is live!
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February 18, 2021
The ultimate Value Stream resource page has just launched! Jump over to valuestream.link to find everything related to clarity, value, and flow you need to level up.valuestream.link
Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation
Flow Engineering - A Kickstart Workflow
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January 06, 2021
Flow Engineering in 4 Maps
The biggest outcome of 2020 for me was expanding beyond Value Stream Mapping to an entire suite of maps focused on delivering positive outcomes, starting from whe...
Tired of misalignment, friction, and stalled workflow? Flow Engineering is a practical guide to using value stream mapping techniques to align teams, unlock innovation, and optimize performance.
Based on foundations from Value Stream Mapping, cybernetics, and the Toyota Production System, Flow Engineering’s lightweight and iterative practices build the value, clarity, and flow required for effective collaboration and collective action. Written by Value Stream Mapping experts Steve Pereira and Andrew Davis, Flow Engineering provides a step-by-step guide for running fast-paced mapping workshops that rapidly build shared understanding.
Using five key maps to facilitate collaborative “flow conversations,” Pereira and Davis show how teams can surface tangled process dependencies, conflicting priorities, and unspoken assumptions that grind progress to a halt. The result? A clear roadmap owned by the people doing the work to accelerate innovation cycles, optimize workflows, and achieve more effective coordination.
Applicable across any industry, Flow Engineering’s techniques have helped leading organizations improve critical workflows like customer onboarding, product development, and hiring.
It’s time to stop trying one-size-fits-all frameworks to find value, clarity, and flow to improve culture and performance. Flow Engineering meets your organization where it’s at and shows you how to move it where it needs to go.
Readers Guide: Flow Engineering
IT Revolution
May 14, 2024
Based on foundations from Value Stream Mapping, cybernetics, and the Toyota Production System, Flow Engineering’s lightweight and iterative practices build the value, clarity, and flow required for effective collaboration and collective action. Written by Value Stream Mapping experts Steve Pereira and Andrew Davis, Flow Engineering provides a step-by-step guide for running fast-paced mapping workshops that rapidly build shared understanding.
This companion reader’s guide to the book includes chapter summaries and chapter-by-chapter discussion questions. Perfect edition to use in your own book club or to expand your understanding of the material.
Steve Pereira (@SteveElsewhere, Value-Stream Whisperer @ Visible) talks about measuring, understanding business and technology process through Value-Stream Mapping.
Product Roadmaps and Tooling Planning with Steve Pereira
The Frontside Podcast
February 01, 2021
In this episode, Steve Pereira—the founder of Visible—talks about how his unique approach to mapping helps customers get products out of the door fast and efficiently. Maps flow to build alignment, clarity, and confidence, and Steve focuses on two primary areas to drive exceptional business outcomes: Flow and value. Value stream thinking and methodologies, augmented by continuous improvement and performance.
Tags: Agile, Digital Transformation, Future of Work
Steve Pereira - Becoming a Completed Nerd
The Hot Mic @ Arch DevOps
February 01, 2021
From an early age, today's guest was just built different. As a kid, Steve Pereira found great value in experimentation and process improvement. While other kids would spend their time goofing off, Steve found ways to spend less time cleaning his room. It's carried forward to now, where his business focuses on helping software companies deliver faster and at higher quality. It turns out that he's found that problems in corporate technology companies aren't tech-related at all.
Interview with Steve Pereira
Software Crafts Podcast
January 27, 2021
This week, Steve Pereira will be challenged with the heuristic “Remove bias and duplication” from the Wardley Doctrine repository (https://wardleypedia.org/mediawiki/index.php/Doctrine_Patterns#Remove_bias_and_duplication). We will discuss different contexts where duplication can hinder or accelerate, and the importance of value streams. He shares his experiences about using weak signals to detect friction within organisations, helping them to reorganise to enable the flow.
Tags: Change Management, Digital Transformation, Future of Work
How to Use Value Stream Mapping to Optimize your Processes
IT Tank
January 20, 2021
This is a great interview with The Value Stream Guy, Steve Pereira. We chat about how VSM can help with process optimization. You will see why Steve is not a huge fan of the term DevOps and DevSecOps, as he prefers to think more in a holistic way.
Five Reasons Value Stream Thinking Is the Future of DevOps
UtahGeekEvents
November 20, 2020
This session introduces the benefits of Value Stream Thinking and techniques, how an organization should go about implementing it and why it's the next logical step for organizations on a DevOps journey.
25: The Concept of Value Stream Management
The Humans of DevOps Podcast Series
October 15, 2020
Jayne Groll, CEO of DevOps Institute, speaks with Steve Pereira, Founder of Visible Value Stream Consulting, about the need to understand, map, manage, and focus on value streams as part of the "new normal".
Tags: Agile, Digital Transformation, Future of Work
Remove bottlenecks and optimize workstreams with value stream mapping
On Cloud
September 23, 2020
Value-stream mapping isn’t just about eliminating work, it’s about looking at processes across the organization, finding bottlenecks, and then using a team approach to understand and remove them—in other words, it’s about finding the value in workstreams. In this episode of the podcast Mike Kavis and guest, Visible Value Stream Consulting’s Steve Pereira, talk value-stream mapping—why it works, how to get started, and what it should look like long term.
How to manage your value stream mapping journey with Steve Pereira - Episode 52
What The Dev?
September 10, 2020
In this week's episode we talk to Steve Pereira, the founder and CEO of Visible, about the importance for value stream mapping, how to get started, how to take it beyond 101, and what to look out for along the way. You can also listen to Pereira's Virtual VSM DevCon talk on value stream mapping here, register for next year's Virtual VSM DevCon conference on March 10, 2021, or continue the conversation on our Slack community.
Value, Stream, Mapping or All! with Steve Pereira
Lean On Agile Show
August 22, 2020
In this episode, Steve joined Shahin to talk about Value Stream Mapping. For the first time, we had a live audience recording the episode. Peter, Ali, and Nasima from the audience asked questions from Steve by the end of the show.
#6 - Steve Pereira "The Value Stream Guy"
Ways of Working
May 27, 2020
In episode 6, I welcome special guest Steve Pereira! Steve is a colleague of mine and I was very grateful for him joining this episode to talk about how to actually accelerate digital transformation in organizations.
The 4x4 Method of DevOps Traction
Blueprint LDN
March 10, 2021
This session describes a winning approach to making progress with any key initiative, framed within the context of DevOps adoption and improvement. It has evolved through many iterations across several mediums and now in the age of remote-first collaboration, is finally easy to share, and easy to start. The system is collaborative and remote by default, but works equally well in a room full of people and post-its. It can even provide value as a solo investigation. It requires no specific tooling. It can be leveraged to drive both continuous improvement and innovation.
EP16: Value Stream Mapping for Development w/ Steve Pereira, CEO of Visible | The Ops Show
CTO ai
August 19, 2020
In the best episode yet, Steve Pereira, Founder/CEO of Visible, explains VSM, #ValueStreamMapping, for technical teams. VSM is a way of modeling your workflows in order to find where the most friction and value is created. Then optimize it.
Value Stream Mapping: Questions Answered - Steve Pereira
Visible
August 13, 2020
This talk is the Value Stream Mapping 101 you never knew you needed for Software Development. I'll share the who, what, where, why, when and especially how of VSM.
Ship Better Software Faster: 3X the Velocity of Your Dev Team
Traction Conf
May 03, 2020
Times are tough and we’re all trying to do more with less to save money.
Some of the highest performing companies we’ve talked to are using this time to make their products better and release features that move the needle for their customers. Ultimately, happy customers will keep your engine going and spread the good word.
In this session, we will share how to surface inefficiencies and bottlenecks in your software development efforts so you can ship more products faster using Value Stream Mapping.
Where's The Map Of Your Pipeline? - Steve Pereira - Deliveryconf 2020
DeliveryConf
January 24, 2020
My first delivery pipeline was shipped through the mail. I couldn’t avoid the mail at the time, but I did shrink the delivery process from 1 week to 4 hours in a few days. We’ve come a long way since then, and yet in many ways, many teams are often driving blind. In an age of near-limitless instrumentation, automation, and observability, we can still miss the forest for the trees. Many teams are drowning in data, and blindly automating their way under a pile of expensive errors. Implementing massive or disconnected systems is a huge, costly undertaking.
Tags: Agile, Digital Transformation, Future of Work
DevOps Days Montreal 2019 Keynote
DevOps Days
November 26, 2019
How can you make time for real innovation and improvement? How do you know what to automate or invest in? How do you escape process prison? How can you get everyone aligned to make a difference? How can you start to drive revenue from cost?
Tags: Agile, Digital Transformation, Future of Work
FutureMakers - Time For What's Next - Steve Pereira
FutureMakers
August 02, 2019
Lean Value Stream Mapping (LVSM) is a software and tech focused version of a classic technique you can use right now, with materials you already have to discover opportunities, build and share your vision and save hours of toil every week so you can invest in what’s next.
5 Keys of DevOps + Value Stream Assessment
Plutora
June 11, 2020
Investing in improvements without assessing your organization is an excellent way to waste time, money, and morale. With 70% of transformation efforts failing it pays to understand your surroundings, strengths, and gaps before you invest in what's next.
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Unlocking Organizational Potential: The Power of Collective Value Stream Mapping
Calculating the ROI of Flow Engineering
We Can Only Improve What We See
The Three Elements of Effective Action
Introducing Flow Engineering
Why We Wrote Flow Engineering
CTO Craft Con
Rose Diagram
Podcast Episode
Agile Practices
Flow Engineering
Readers Guide: Flow Engineering
Steve Pereira on Value Stream Management
Value-Stream Mapping
Product Roadmaps and Tooling Planning with Steve Pereira
Steve Pereira - Becoming a Completed Nerd
Interview with Steve Pereira
25: The Concept of Value Stream Management
Remove bottlenecks and optimize workstreams with value stream mapping
How to manage your value stream mapping journey with Steve Pereira - Episode 52
Value, Stream, Mapping or All! with Steve Pereira
#6 - Steve Pereira "The Value Stream Guy"
The 4x4 Method of DevOps Traction
