Overview
The ability to visualize the flow of work from the business to customers and track the status of products and features is a crucial capability that drives high software delivery and organizational performance.
Visibility of work is an essential aspect of lean product management, which involves working in small batches, experimenting as a team, and obtaining customer feedback. These capabilities not only predict software delivery performance but also organizational performance, which is measured in terms of profitability, market share, and productivity.
Visibility of Work in the Value Stream Practices
- The team understands how work moves through the business from idea to customer.
- The team has visibility into the flow of this work.
- The flow of work, including its current state, is shown on visual displays or dashboards.
- Information about the flow of product development.
Adoption expectations
| Steps | MVP | MVP+ |
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Visualize and share the flow of work |
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Establish a practice of continuous review and improve the flow of work |
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Tools
| Functionality | Tool name |
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Collaboration, visualization and documentation |
Confluence
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Roles
| Name | Responsibilities |
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Scrum Master/Team Coach |
Coach and support usage of the best engineering practices to support release on demand |
Release Train Engineer |
Streamline delivery process encouraging automation and shortening manual verification steps
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