At Visible, we are a boutique consulting firm dedicated to transforming the way you work.We help organizations address the complexities of scale, globalization, and the rapidly changing work environment to ensure your teams are working smarter rather than harder.Using Flow Engineering, we are able to quickly get from problem to solution efficiently and effectively. Through collaborative mapping workshops, we collect real-time data from your team, and turn that into streamlined, actionable strategies. Our expertise lies in delivering rapid, tailored solutions that cut through complexity, enabling businesses to operate smarter and achieve lasting success in today’s dynamic landscape.

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At Visible, we help you rebuild that loop of effective action to clear feedback, from employee to customer, optimizing workflow and improving team alignment along.

According to Gallup's State of the Global Workplace: 2023 Report, disengaged employees cost the world an unbelievable $8.8 trillion in lost productivity.

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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.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.

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"Flow Engineering offers approachable, flexible, and scalable practices to address the challenges of scale, visibility, and misalignment in modern organizations. By providing a simple, digital-native starting point on-ramp to effective action through value stream mapping, it meets teams where they are today: distributed, distracted, disoriented, and disconnected.With it, teams can gain a comprehensive understanding of their workflow, identify improvement opportunities, and align their efforts with the value they can deliver."

Karen Martin, Author Value Stream Mapping

At Visible, we leverage the principles of Flow Engineering to optimize organizational workflow and drive efficiency. Through collaborative mapping, we work closely with your teams to gain valuable insights and map out end-to-end workflows across the enterprise. This approach is designed to be simple to implement, adaptable to your unique needs, and quick to identify key opportunities for improvement. The result is a set of customized actionable recommendations that deliver significant, measurable benefits, helping your organization achieve smoother operations and enhanced performance.

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Flow Engineering is not a copy-and-paste methodology, which we know doesn't work. It's not a heavy framework that imposes a specific structure or operating model. It uses five different distinct maps to charter a course from your current state to a target state.

Align all members of a team around the value they need to deliver.

Investing in irrelevant improvements.

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Clarify the most likely constraints in an end-to-end workflow

Optimizing a process that is not the constraint.

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Enhance the team's clarity around likely constraints.

Inadequate understanding of the constraint.

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Jointly envision a value stream with imroved flow.

Failing to create a visible target for change.

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Define the minimum set of steps to achieving improved flow.

Failing to effectively act on insights.

Key Success Metrics

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Flow Engineering vs. Other Techniques

Flow Engineering makes it possible to incorporate any flow-improvement techniques that can help deliver value, and provides a clear structure to layer them in. There are two main advantages that Flow Engineering brings to any practice: Initial clarity on a target outcome, and an actionable, owned, measurable roadmap to achieve the outcome.

Example: "Before" Value Stream | Current state: 64 weeks at $2M per release

Example: "After" Value Stream | Future state: 32 weeks at 50%, $1M cost savings in year one

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Steve is obsessed with making tech human, and leveraging it to deliver continuous value.
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.

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Steve is a passionate and dynamic speaker, specializing in Flow Engineering, who captivates audiences with innovative insights into optimizing processes and improving organizational efficiency. With a deep understanding of flow principles, Steve skillfully breaks down complex concepts, making them accessible and actionable for diverse audiences. Whether speaking to corporate teams, industry leaders, or conference attendees, Steve inspires listeners to embrace Flow Engineering as a powerful tool for driving performance, enhancing collaboration, and creating sustainable growth. With a commitment to empowering others, he continually explores new strategies to help organizations unlock their full potential through the science of flow.

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With workforce demands at an all-time high, optimizing efficiency is crucial for maintaining a healthy, productive, and profitable business. At Visible, we recognize these pressures, which is why our Flow Engineering program swiftly identifies and addresses the key factors hindering your progress, delivering meaningful solutions that drive performance.

What drives us?

VALUE - Our approach maximizes ROI with minimal investment. We ensure quick, actionable insights, making it easy to start and delivering results swiftly.CLARITY - We begin by gaining a deep understanding of your current business landscape. This clarity enables us to pinpoint key focus areas, prioritize effectively, and define metrics that align with your goals.FLOW - We promote continuous improvement by helping you establish sustainable processes for regularly evaluating and adapting your workflow as new opportunities arise.

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Chapters

List of Figures
Foreword by Karen Martin
Introduction

part 1 The flow landscape

• The Problems with Scale

• Solutions to Scale

• The Elements of Action

• Flow Engineering

part 2 mapping the landscape

• Outcome Mapping

• Current State Value Mapping

• Dependency Mapping

• Future State Value Stream Mapping

• The Flow Roadmap

part 3 navigating the landscape

• Principles of Flow Engineering

• Leading Flow Engineering

• Traps to Avoid

• Value Stream Management

• Scaling Flow Engineering

Conclusion
Appendix
Glossary

Why This?

Value, clarity, and flow are the currency of knowledge work, but they’re difficult to describe, build, and measure and so are usually left implicit. Failing to optimize for these concerns risks teams that are confused, disengaged, and ineffective.

• Guide your team, in-person or remotely, in co-creating clear visualizations of your work processes.

• Re-connect business and technology by re-framing value delivery with alignment and empathy.

• Understand how to sustain states of psychological flow in the pursuit of increasing the flow of benefit to customers.

Why Now?

Study after study has shown that 70% of digital transformation efforts fail. Why? Not for lack of funding, lack of tools, or lack of effort. Organizations attempting to evolve are limited by their capacity to implement systems of change to adopt new capabilities.

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• An open set of adaptive practices for teams of all types.

• It blends step-by-step instruction with case studies on success (and failure).

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Meet the Authors

Steve Pereira

Steve is obsessed with making tech human, and leveraging it to deliver continuous value.
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.

andrew davis

Chief Product Officer at AutoRABIT and the author of Mastering Salesforce DevOps. He’s a Salesforce architect, developer, and product leader with a focus on the human side of software development.He’s been the leading figure in introducing DevOps concepts to the Salesforce world. Trained as an engineer, he spent fifteen years as a Buddhist monk, teaching meditation and personal transformation and helping develop communities of practice. These days he studies the intersection of business, technology, and psychology through systems thinking. He is co-founder of the Center for Harmonious Living with his wife, Ashley, to promote healthier ways of approaching work and life.

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Why we Wrote Flow Engineering

By Steve Pereira & Andrew Davis (Long Form)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.

Steve

I’ve always had a fascination with complex problems. I grew up among mysterious, discarded technology collected through my father’s work at Bell Telecom. By tinkering with these remnants, I developed confidence in my ability to tackle technical puzzles and get things working, and I became comfortable acting with a healthy degree of uncertainty. But I still sought out frameworks and playbooks to guide my instincts. Sometimes I even read a manual!I broke into tech with a support role at IBM and worked my way from there into desktop support for a brokerage firm, IT management, infrastructure automation, build and release engineering (on compact discs!), and eventually the cloud.After attending my first DevOps meetup in 2011, I felt like I had found a community of fixers like me. I was deep into build and release engineering, Agile infrastructure, and automation in a highly project-oriented organization skeptical of Agile methods. There was a massive rift between business and tech. At DevOps meetups, I heard my challenges echoed by everyone working in large organizations:

I shared experiences of working on complicated and extensive automation that would never be used, attending endless meetings to analyze and explain technical and architectural decisions, and seeing conflict between every department.I took over the DevOps Toronto meetup in 2014 and started to curate a delicate balance between technical and organizational subjects, gravitating toward an area where I saw lots of challenges and little content: the socio-technical aspect of DevOps. I would hear time and time again from individual contributors that they could do such amazing things if only X would get out of the way. X was always something like management, meetings, Scrum rituals, product folks, or sales folks. What I started to hear was that problems with friction, confusion, obstacles, buy-in, dependencies, and misalignment were repeated themes.During this time, key learnings began to emerge within the DevOps community. Books like Continuous Delivery, The DevOps Handbook, and Making Work Visible built a foundation of knowledge we now take for granted.DevOps Days, particularly open space discussion sessions, were my way of connecting with others who focused on the gaps: the “glue work” to bridge silos, automate away friction, and reduce toil. I was focused more on the flow of building than on what was being built. After all, tech changed all the time, but the issues of value, clarity, and flow never seemed to.In 2014, I attended the first DevOps Enterprise Summit. It seemed the most practical event in the DevOps space—no tech in a vacuum, no theory without application, and focused on delivering business value. It opened my eyes to what was possible when DevOps was applied in complex environments, and there was honest conversation about the hard problems still to solve. Although the specific words rarely came up, there was a great deal of conversation about value, clarity, and flow.Over the years, I often consulted and advised founders and leaders as they hit familiar challenges and inflection points. They’d ask for help with pipeline automation, platform implementation, infrastructure management, etc. Their actual needs appeared after a quick conversation: confusion and chaos from growth, misalignment and conflict with stakeholders, and waste and dependencies impacting delivery. I didn’t realize this at the time, but value, clarity, and flow were sore spots in every case.As I stepped into leadership as a CTO, it became increasingly important for me not only to understand the workings of things but to articulate them effectively to my team, to my executive peers, and to that most charitable audience, the board. I had to illustrate the workings, assumptions, and importance of different decisions and how they fit together. I had to communicate with folks who couldn’t care less how the tech worked and only cared what we could do with it—and when.I felt the pressure from the board, CEO, VP of Sales, and others to ensure my team was operating at a high level of performance and that we could always prove it. That always depended on strong collaboration with every other role in the executive suite and the collaboration of all our reports.It became increasingly clear as I collided with these challenges that DevOps wasn’t enough to capture the full scope I needed to address. DevOps lacked a language that would resonate with nontechnical stakeholders across the business. Those needs pushed me to a realization that would unlock a new level of performance and change the way I thought about technical leadership forever.My biggest lesson came when a lucky surge in sales exposed the need to reduce onboarding time to meet demand. When you’re shown a waiting list of fifty enterprise customers and then look at your current onboarding processes, the math quickly reveals a painful truth. I knew it took far too long to get new clients up and running, but I had no idea exactly how long it took. The most painful realization came when I realized that nobody—neither my team nor I—knew why it took so long.To try and figure out what was causing this long onboarding time, I created a sort of Value Stream Map—a map that laid out the full sequence of activities involved in value delivery to customers—in Google Sheets, using my rough understanding of the onboarding flow. But this map was still full of blanks, guesses, and question marks.The breakthrough came when I invited my team and other roles to contribute their perspectives. The picture started to form. The numbers started to add up. We could see lead time, cycle time, delays, problem areas, and a clear bottleneck. Beyond the shock of our actual lead time, we were most surprised by how many opportunities we had within our immediate grasp. We could see many easy fixes waiting for simple action.

After a few changes, we were able to reduce onboarding time from six weeks to four days. The effect on my team was an incredible boost in confidence, clarity, and collaboration. But perhaps the most impactful was a sense of control over performance improvement. We went from individually treading water to rowing together in the same boat with a stopwatch to track our progress. We had before and after metrics that we could easily share to show progress and ROI, metrics that sales and the C-suite cared about.

This milestone served as the first lightning-strike moment for me. It also became a business case, highlighting the tangible difference that efficient workflow could make. Because I worked through this method with my team, they learned to apply these practices without me—individually, with each other, and with other roles across the organization. It took the practical act of mapping out the workflow to drive home those key foundational learnings of measuring end-to-end flow and visualization from Continuous Delivery, The DevOps Handbook, and Making Work Visible.I had finally tripped and fallen into insights that had been there all along. When we had something challenging to tackle, we measured the current state and found the bottleneck. When we had to make a decision, we looked at the data. We applied the playbook across multiple workflows, from our data pipeline to continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) and product development. And all these insights helped us eliminate waste and spend more time on what mattered most.The second lightning strike came when I struggled to share this with folks who cared less about the details than the big picture or folks stepping into the context for the first time. A spreadsheet full of numbers isn’t the most user-friendly interface. Eyes glaze over and interest drains like air from a pierced balloon. To communicate with everyone we collaborated with quickly and effectively, we needed something that was clear enough to enable conversations but would also speak for itself if it was shared with others. I began to play with different visualizations of flow to do that job, and this simplified Value Stream Map is what I began to use.

We turned a corner from being an unpredictable, black-box cost center to being a trusted and data-driven technical organization. We started to bridge gaps to sales, product, the rest of the leadership team, and the board with a new sense of clarity and confidence. Flow Engineering is the product of that experience.

Andrew

I think of myself as a full-stack engineer. But most of the world’s problems don’t originate at the software layer or at the hardware layer. Most problems originate at the view and intention layer.After training in engineering, I spent my twenties and thirties as a Buddhist monk. My focus was on gradually rewiring the way I reacted to and saw the world and on teaching others to do the same. My goal was to reframe my motivation away from chasing my own short-term benefit and toward acting with a good motivation to nourish the social network around me.My fellow monks and nuns were a community of incredibly good-hearted, dedicated people who had forgone other careers and devoted their lives to building an authentic community of practice and helping people improve their inner peace. We worked in the absence of money, prestige, relationships, and most other comforts. That does a lot to filter for sincerity. I came to assume that those I work with should be driven by a sense of purpose, benevolence, and passion. The daily practices of meditation and chanting instilled in us joy and enormous patience. We worked like athletes, striving to make every word and action count, repeating the same trainings day in and day out.This is where I developed my passion for building clarity. The payoff in these practices was in the form of insights, new realizations, and understanding. This journey of discovery and learning was a far more valuable reward than money, comfort, or excitement. I regarded the activities of daily living, including making money, as a necessity similar to going to the bathroom: something that needed to be done but not something to waste more time or energy on than necessary.For fifteen years, I dedicated all of my time and effort to trying to develop the spiritual communities I was part of. But optimizing for hard work is different from optimizing for impact and effectiveness, and I felt far less effective than I wanted to be. It was clear that just working hard and with good intention did not ensure that the work would be effective and sustainable. I had retrained myself to value the organization and our students but had overextended and devalued my long-term well-being.In 2014, I left the life of a monk, in part to learn more about how effective organizations were run. I wanted to understand how to make wise use of people’s precious and limited time and energy and how modern management techniques could be harnessed to create a stable, sustainable flow of benefit for others.A lifelong technologist, I reentered the workforce as a developer with a focus on Salesforce.com, a technology I had implemented for one meditation center. I joined a consulting firm and was quickly tasked with a job no one else wanted to do: the Salesforce deployments. At that time, little information and few tools existed to automate such processes. I gradually realized there must be a way to automate away the toil and free up more time for the creative, interesting parts of the work.This realization inspired me to investigate how techniques like version control, continuous integration, and automated testing could be brought to the Salesforce platform. I knew if we could improve these processes, we could reduce the confusion and inefficiency that was so common for me and my fellow developers.In 2016, a colleague pointed me to the State of DevOps Reports, which I studied meticulously. I started watching videos by Jez Humble to understand technical concepts. But as I listened, I noticed that many of his insights were on the nature of human interactions around software development. Again and again, he redirected credit and blame away from individual engineers and toward the system they were working in.I started to realize that there was a community within software development focused on human and social transformation. I read Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble and then followed Jez’s influence into topics like product management and his book Lean Enterprise. That’s where I first became aware of Value Stream Mapping and began to lead Value Stream Mapping exercises and design Value Stream Management systems. Everywhere I looked, it kept coming up as a theme.In 2018, I attended my first DevOps Enterprise Summit and had my mind blown hearing Dr. Christina Maslach explain the origins of burnout, Dr. Steve Spear explain the ways in which Toyota revolutionized the manufacturing industry, and the CEO of Compuware talk about engineering their turnaround. The content irreversibly expanded my sense of the role that IT could play in making organizations more effective. I felt like I had found my people in the DevOps community.At the 2020 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas, I attended a Lean Coffee on Value Stream Mapping that Steve was hosting. Participants were curious about how to move from talking about Value Stream Mapping to actually applying it in their organizations. The topics of the day included how to get started, what resources could guide the practice, and where it could be applied. Those questions are no less relevant today. In an increasingly distributed, cross-functional, collaborative world, shared clarity is rarer than ever.Soon after the event, Steve and I reconnected. We both agreed that tech leaders needed further guidance on this topic and that we could team up to close the gap. We started meeting for three-to-four-hour jam sessions on weekends. We both shared a preference for digital collaboration tools like Mural or Miro, which provided a spacious canvas for our conversations to emerge and insights to coalesce.Our dialogue revealed an enormous amount of overlap in our interests. It was fantastic to find a collaborator with a common passion. By mapping out our ideas, experiences, and understandings, we built a shared environment that we could easily discuss, revisit, and refine over time.Early on, we both agreed on the importance of shared clarity and how much clarity was lost in typical team interactions. It quickly became a recurring theme in our work together. Lack of clarity was accompanied by lack of alignment around business value. These deficits combined to create a lack of individual and collective flow. Value, clarity, and flow came up day after day.Steve had already started organizing his thoughts into the Flow Engineering scaffold. Our conversations deepened and expanded the relevance of these practices into an open, adaptive, collaborative series of practices that can help align teams around value and move them from complexity to clarity, from friction to flow. We bring these practices to you in this book.

Who This Book is For

We’ve written this book for our peers working in technology in large enterprises. However, we’ve applied and seen the techniques described in this book in contexts far beyond our immediate frame of reference. It’s easy to adapt and tailor to varied situations. It’s flexible enough to help teams of any skill level, and it’s robust enough to be used for ambitious process improvements or day-to-day problem-solving.We’re specialists in digital product development and delivery, but we’ve seen the need for value, clarity, and flow throughout many roles, industry verticals, levels of hierarchy, and stages of growth and scale.This book is written for professionals familiar with the basics of Lean and Agile but unclear how to start, restart, teach, or make measurable progress with confidence. This is a book for curious problem-solvers struggling to help their teams or organizations see the big picture. This is for those grappling with complicated frameworks and operating models and wondering, “How?”We’re aiming to help mid-level leadership in complicated enterprises, but we’ve applied and seen this material used in a broad range of roles and contexts like product management, Agile coaching, technical leadership, architecture, marketing, sales, project management, design, customer success, and more.Why does it work in all these cases? It’s a lightweight, flexible practice of building a path from where you are to where you want to go. Once you’ve grasped the concepts and techniques, you could find yourself applying Flow Engineering in contexts we’ve never imagined. If you’re looking for a clear, approachable, step-by-step system for building value, clarity, and flow across your organization, this book is written for you.

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Considering a Flow Training Session for your team?This PDF provides as overview of our Flow Engineering Training Program to learn everything you need to know about the course. The course can be delivered virtually or in person.This booklet includes a detailed learning summary, an outline of the course structure, and the key benefits of participating.

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Our Free Flow Engineering Template for Mural is designed to help you effectively map and analyze key aspects of your workflows.With five essential maps —Outcome Mapping, Value Stream Mapping, Dependency Mapping, Future State Mapping, and Flow Roadmap — this template provides a clear structure for your sessions. It’s a practical tool for visualizing processes, identifying dependencies, and planning future improvements, helping your team focus on what matters most for better outcomes and efficiency.Ideal for anyone looking to get started with Flow Engineering.

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flow engineering Mapping Template - For Miro

Our Free Flow Engineering Template for Miro is designed to help you effectively map and analyze key aspects of your workflows.With five essential maps —Outcome Mapping, Value Stream Mapping, Dependency Mapping, Future State Mapping, and Flow Roadmap — this template provides a clear structure for your sessions. It’s a practical tool for visualizing processes, identifying dependencies, and planning future improvements, helping your team focus on what matters most for better outcomes and efficiency.Ideal for anyone looking to get started with Flow Engineering.

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The Flow Engineering Game

By Steve Pereira & Andrew Davis

This simple excercise serves as a fun, quick, and effective introduction to Value Stream Mapping and the core of Flow . Using a fictional example stream and randomly generated data, we can quickly introduce collaborative mapping, current state analysis, and future state improvements with groups of any size — whether they work together or not -- in just 30 minutes.The game-like workshop serves as a warm-up for real mapping, so participants can learn the basics before applying the technique to their own context. This also works to demonstrate mapping to participants from varied contexts, where they don’t share a common stream.

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By Steve Pereira & Andrew Davis

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.

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By Cecil "Gary" Rupp, Richard Knaster, Steve Pereira, Al Shalloway

The Lean-Agile Way offers proven strategies to streamline processes, enhance products, and improve service delivery.You’ll start with an introduction to foundational Lean and Agile practices, recognizing the significance of digital enhancements in modernizing business processes. As you progress, you'll learn VSM techniques to identify and prioritize work and investments to provide maximum value to customers. Moreover, you'll grasp Lean-Agile practices aimed at promoting collaboration among teams and ensuring the continuous flow of product-oriented deliveries tailored to address customer needs. Finally, you'll gain executive-level insights on how organizations must access timely information for decision-making and foster a culture of continuous business transformation.Armed with this knowledge and a robust toolkit, you'll be empowered to drive meaningful change, optimize resources, and stay ahead in the rapidly evolving marketplace.

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Intensive Flow Engineering for Leaders

Our first Flow Leadership Retreat in the Yucatan has just wrapped up, and we couldn't be more thrilled with its success. Surrounded by the ocean's rhythm and free from everyday distractions, a diverse group of professionals came together to explore leadership, collaboration, and of course, Flow Engineering in a setting designed for deep work and meaningful connection. The insights, breakthroughs, and shared experiences have left us inspired - and already planning the next retreat. This time, we're taking even more time to incorporate key takeaways, curate the perfect cohort, and find another breathtaking location.We're truly thankful to each and every person who took a chance on this new venture with us, and contributed so deeply to the success of this retreat!

March 2025 retreat Recap

Welcome to an exclusive retreat nestled in the serene beauty of a luxury villa in the Yucatán Peninsula, where innovation, collaboration, and personal growth converge. This immersive experience is designed for leaders dedicated to mastering the art and science of Flow Engineering. We'll dive deep into open space sessions, case studies, and hands-on workshops. Together, we’ll explore the latest strategies and tactics to optimize performance, unlock new potential, and design systems that create sustainable, high-performing flow.Join us for a journey of learning, connection, and tangible growth, all in an environment that cultivates creativity and clarity.

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FAQ's

What is a Value Stream?
It's made of people and what they do to make value happen. It's bigger than a single process. It can be made of many processes (hopefully not too many!).
Value Streams are a system (a single workflow) that live in a larger system (your organization). They often start out messy and complicated, and evolve over time. That is why it's so valuable to step back and look at how they perform to find improvement opportunities. This can save a ton of time and money, uncover new opportunities, and simplify complexity. It also makes it much easier to make decisions about how to improve what you're doing, and what you deliver. The best technique for understanding a value stream is Value Stream Mapping.What is Value Stream Mapping?
A value stream is a mechanism for producing value. Value Stream Mapping is a technique for describing and measuring value streams. This is difficult in knowledge work because you can't just trace a pile of materials all the way through a factory and into a customer's hands. Work flows across many roles in many forms, but we can track a single work item (a story, bug, feature, epic, experiment, etc) through all the activities that produce and deliver it.Why is mapping valuable? Why not just look at the data?
Mapping provides critical visibility into complex software delivery systems that metrics alone can't capture. It enables shared understanding across teams and departments, which is essential for effective collaboration. Visual maps are quickly understood by everyone from new hires to C-suite executives, making them powerful communication tools. Data can take months to get access to, clean, organize, validate, and correlate, and even then it’s still subject to opinion and interpretation. Even without value stream mapping, outcome mapping helps to clarify what data is most valuable, and a flow roadmap translates the data into action.Is this only for software teams?
While focused on software delivery, Flow Engineering can improve outcomes for any process delivering value, including incident response, infrastructure automation, or sales.Who guides this process?
An experienced external facilitator is recommended to provide an unbiased perspective, ask insightful questions, maximize session efficiency and value, and keep teams engaged. An experienced facilitator can save hours of wasted time and effort in each session, and find hidden opportunities worth millions of dollars and months of time.Who participates in mapping?
Include representatives from all responsible parties in the value stream, including leadership. Aim for 12 or fewer participants.When should we do this?
Start as soon as possible to gain performance visibility. Repeat every 6 months to reassess progress and identify new improvement opportunities.How do we get accurate results?
You need accuracy only where it matters. Initial relative measurements are sufficient to find your key opportunities, then we dig into further detail where there’s value. More precise measurements can be added later if needed. We want insights fast, so we focus on just enough detail to understand and act effectively.What does this really look like?
The process involves 4-6 two-hour sessions to define, analyze and design the target value stream. Maps can be combined or kept separate, and easily shared across the organization.

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