Chapter 13: Introducing the VSM-DevOps Practice Leaders

1. Its purpose is to help organizations worldwide deliver customer value by adopting and advancing value stream management tools and practices. The objective of the VSMC is to serve the whole VSM community by helping drive value stream management standards and innovation through leadership and community connectivity.
2. Structurally, the VSMC implements Lean practices and value streams as its operating model. In addition, its funding supports VSMC Research, Learning, and Outreach value streams.
3. The Consortium's initial research offering will be the The State of Value Stream Management Report, which will measure how teams apply value stream management principles, practices, and metrics to influence their value stream management outcomes.
4. PMI acquired Disciplined Agile, which focuses on implementing Lean and Agile practices in software development.

   PMI also acquired NetObjects, the developer of FLEX (Flow for Enterprise...