Differentiating Value Streams from Other Things artwork
The Flow Engineering Show

Differentiating Value Streams from Other Things

  • S1E10
  • 18:18
  • January 4th 2023
  • Is there a customer? 
  • (If not, it's a process) 
  • Is it repeatable? Are the operating conditions stable?
  • (If not, it's a project or initiative) 
  • Value Stream is a linear process
  • Does it have to include more than one person? No
  • Why do we want to identify value streams?


The Flow Engineering Show

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.