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The Flow Engineering Show

Core and Supporting Value Streams

  • S1E12
  • 25:42
  • January 18th 2023
  • Do our customers pay for the outcome? (It's a Core stream)
  • Does it facilitate core stream performance? (It's a Supporting stream)
  • Is there value in improving quality, margins, performance, outcomes? 
  • (If not, it's likely commoditized and should be outsourced)
  • Supporting streams are typically operational unless the supporting streams are highly nascent (Platform development)


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Computers are hard. People are harder. And your job is to make them all work together. The Value Stream Show is right there with you, at the intersection of technology and humanity. We bring clarity to the challenges software teams face, and guide you into the emerging practice of value stream management. Our listeners learn to dissect what’s really happening in their organizations so they can move fast, have fun, and make an impact.

Meet your Hosts

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Andrew Davis
Sr. Director of Methodology

Andrew Davis is 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.

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.

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Steve Pereira
Principle, Visible Consulting

Steve Pereira is 'The Value Stream Guy' and lifelong workflow optimizer. He's been improving flow in organizations ever since his first job making pizza, and after scaling a startup as a founding CTO, shifted to consulting focused entirely on software delivery value streams.

He's run dozens of in person and remote mapping workshops with organizations of all sizes as well as speaking and writing extensively on the subject to share his learning.