Intro to Value Stream Mapping Workshop

What You'll Learn

Practical tools to visualize, analyze and optimize your workflows.

In this hands-on 1-hour workshop, you'll map a delivery workflow, identify bottlenecks, and apply lean principles to improve your delivery’s effectiveness.

What is Value Stream Mapping (VSM)?

VSM is designed to help teams achieve a specific business outcome by improving work processes.

In a series of group mapping activities, teams visualize the flow of work from start to finish, identify inefficiencies, delays, and waste. The team uses what they’ve learned to create a roadmap of measurable improvement actions, in service of delivering more value to the customer.

Originally developed at Toyota in the 1940s, value stream mapping helps teams visualize workflows to eliminate waste and deliver value faster. More info.

Who Should Attend

• Leaders: Visualize what's blocking your business goals
• Product People: Speed up feature delivery and time-to-value
• Designers: Get user feedback faster by removing process roadblocks
• Engineers: Apply DevOps principles to improve deployment workflows
• Anyone who wants to make work less annoying and improve delivery of value to the customer

Workshop Agenda

1. Quick Introduction: Learn about workflow bottlenecks and flow metrics
2. Hands-on Mapping: Discover improvement opportunities in an example value stream map
3. Group Discussion: Discuss the constraints, why they are happening and possible solutions
4. Action Planning: Leave with practical next steps and resources

What do others say?

• Feedback participants: online workshop
• Feedback participants: in-persion workshop in Lisbon with PRODUCTIZED and Patrice Corbard
• Feedback from Patrice Corbard, co-facilitator
• Feedback participants: in-persion workshop in Berlin with Domain Driven Design Berlin
• Feedback from running a full Value Stream Mapping workshop in practice

About Miguel Dias (Independent Technology Consultant):

I’m a Software Engineer with over five years of experience, building and scaling systems for large companies, startups, and a nonprofit.

I spent 2024 leading Value Stream Mapping initiatives at Relex, a global SaaS company, involving individual teams, multiple teams, and an entire technology department.

I’ve partnered with these teams to increase revenue by onboarding customers faster, preventing service disruptions, delivering value 2x more often, and wasting less time due to misalignment and lack of clarity.

A thought leader in the Value Stream Mapping and DevOps space, I’m actively engaged with the international community, and currently launching my own consultancy in Berlin.