Flow Engineering

A world of accelerating change demands a new generation of management with the skills to drive decisive action and elevate performance. Managers tasked with delivering results collide with peers whose conflicting goals, perspectives, and incentives freeze progress and create a glacial pace of change. New thinking and practices are needed to act in alignment. You can't copy-and-paste a solution, and you can't do it alone. To collaborate effectively, you need to create a shared map of the territory; you need to pick your battles; you need Value Stream Clarity.

Readers will discover profound yet practical applications of systems thinking, psychology, and organizational design in this new book by value stream experts Andrew Davis and Steve Pereira. With a step-by-step guide to visualizing the outcomes, processes, and dependencies, Davis and Pereira use case studies from across industries to show readers how to unlock innovation and optimal performance.

Learn how to co-create value stream maps of the hidden relations and interactions that constrain your teams, maps that everyone can align with and act on. Reach across the whitespace in your organization and replace friction with flow using Value Stream Clarity.

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. Beginning in tech support, his quest to experience every aspect of business/tech collaboration and value delivery led him through IT management, build and release engineering, and systems automation. After scaling a startup as a founding CTO, he shifted consulting with a focused entirely on software delivery value streams to share insights and methods with every organization seeking higher performance. 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.

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. He's the leading figure in introducing DevOps concepts to the Salesforce world. 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.