Summary
In this chapter, you learned about the three phases of future state value stream mapping. These phases include assessing the value stream's ability to manage customer demands, implement continuous flows, and level customer orders to optimize production capacities. In addition, you learned how to develop and evolve the future state map across these three phases.
As part of your learning, this chapter continued with the original IT-oriented value stream example, to show you how the VSM team moves from the continuous state assessment of work and information flows to analyzing a preferred future state. You completed the exercise by noting that the Sprint-based practices of Agile and Scrum implement batch processes inherently, which is a form of waste in Lean. However, you now know that batch processing can be eliminated by moving to Kanban-based production scheduling, as well as by implementing integrated and automated CI/CD and DevOps pipeline flows.
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