Realizing Effective Value Stream Management Through Integration

Enterprises are under ever-increasing pressure to deliver better quality products faster and provide an outstanding customer experience. In an ultra-competitive world, it is essential to drive digital transformation, leveraging all the resources optimally and stay ahead of the competition. Value delivery to the customer is the cornerstone of software development. Striking the right balance between innovation, speed of delivery, and customer experience loom large on executives’ minds today.

Optimizing the Organizational Ecosystem

Delivering business value has become the goal of IT enterprises, and so they need to consider the following:

Need for Value Stream Management (VSM)

Value Stream Management (VSM) is a methodology that allows enterprises to successfully tackle the modern world challenges associated with the product delivery ecosystem. VSM helps organizations better monitor and manage their Software Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC). Value Stream Management is customer-centric, and therefore IT enterprises are looking to implement it. VSM optimizes the project to product journey of an enterprise by measuring value and enabling its teams to have enhanced visibility and traceability across their ecosystem. It accelerates the software delivery process and enables organizations to deliver higher quality software faster to their customers at reduced risk.

The ecosystem, by nature, is heterogeneous with multiple functional teams involved in delivering the product. These teams choose the tools which enable them to innovate and be most productive. Across a product delivery ecosystem, typically enterprises use Project and Portfolio Management tools, Requirement Management tools, Agile Planning tools, Project Tracking tools, DevOps tools, ITSM tools, etc. There is no single vendor in the marketplace that provides a platform to meet the needs of these functional teams. Hence, the only alternative for the enterprises is to select best of breed tools which let their teams perform in the most efficient and effective manner. However, it presents a different set of challenges:

Siloed datasets

Manual and cumbersome reporting

Delayed planning

Impossible to react in real-time

OpsHub Integration Manager Provides the Fabric to Facilitate Value Stream Management

OpsHub Integration Manager (OIM) provides an integration fabric that helps enterprises organize their value streams productively. OIM supports 60+ tools across different categories and is a single solution to integrate all the tools used by an enterprise. OIM ensures that systems connected through it are always in a consistent state. There is no data mismatch in different systems allowing various stakeholders to manage their value streams and make faster decisions, all in their systems. Some of the other features of OpsHub Integration Manager are as follows:

Cross-System Traceability: OIM allows cross-functional teams to manage end-to-end traceability between various tools in the product development ecosystem. For example, code to requirement, tickets to defects, etc.

Failure Management:  OIM provides automatic failure notification and reprocessing as configured. It can deal with failures impacting the end systems as well as the OIM application.

Workflow/Changeset Support: Different tools have different data models and a different context to the same data. OIM supports data transformation while syncing data from one system to the other.

Conflict Management: OIM automatically detects and resolves the conflict between the source system and the target system, if any. It easily manages the synchronization failures and conflicts.

History Preservation: OIM maintains a complete history of any change in all the integrated tools as desired. It ensures that different stakeholders are looking at the same information in their tools of choice.

Enterprises can also opt to deploy OIM on their own premises as well as on Cloud.

Summary

Value Stream Management (VSM) is a must for enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation journey. However, the first step in Value Stream Management is to integrate and unify the product development toolchain. The right integration platform is crucial to enable Value Stream Management, as it can optimize and elevate the value stream management to provide a strong foundation for digital transformation. Every stakeholder in the toolchain can then effectively manage his/her value stream by choosing the right functional tool coupled with an integration platform like OpsHub Integration Manager. OIM not only enables end-to-end Value Stream Management but also future proofs investments in the value stream management solution as customers can seamlessly transition from one tool to the other without losing any data, history, relationships, or context.
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