target audience: TECH BUYER Publication date: Sep 2024 - Document type: Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight - Doc Document number: # US52625524
Increased Value Stream Management Adoption to Optimize DevOps, Business Visibility, and Execution
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Abstract
This IDC Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight considers IDC's recent DevOps survey with a focus on value stream management (VSM) (see DevOps Practices, Perceptions, and Tooling Survey, 2024: Automation, Observability, GenAI, and Purchasing Trends, IDC #, June 2024).
As organizations must manage flexible work and geographically distributed teams with resource constraints, economic volatility, and competitive pressures, the ability to both focus on value-centric planning and enable an efficient flow of value and improved collaboration is key. IDC's DevOps survey showed that 74.6% of respondents are expanding, using, or piloting VSM, which is a 23% increase over last year’s survey data. VSM includes looking at all steps in the software delivery process, from idea to production, as a value stream. VSM follows value progression, identifying silos, bottlenecks, and other inefficiencies in value flow as it moves toward delivery.
IDC increasingly sees VSM leveraged in both business and DevOps environments as companies seek to identify, prioritize, drive, and assess value throughout their initiatives and better coordinate with one another. Survey respondents cited that the top benefits of using VSM are gaining context about where they need to make improvements and improving the flow and measurement of value. Other advantages include scaling DevOps, tracking efficiency trends, managing the SDLC and better mapping to business strategy.
By making value-centric approaches strategic, rising to the business level, and enabling visibility across teams, VSM can improve collaboration, product and project execution, and coordination to enable teams to work better together to address key priorities. Substantial investments in the process and organizational change for transitioning to VSM (in conjunction with automation) are foundational imperatives for success. We also observe that AI and GenAI will positively impact VSM engagement and adoption in 2H24 or 2025.