What is a Value Stream?

A value stream is the end-to-end flow of work that delivers measurable outcomes to customers or stakeholders. It is a durable organisational construct with clear ownership, funding, governance, and performance accountability.

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    Our guide to linking strategy, delivery and customer value. Ways of working, value streams operating models, and organisational viscosity - all in one online guide

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What Strategic Value Streams gives you

A single, coherent approach that brings the whole organisation together around the value it delivers.

  • A way of working for the whole organisation, from delivery teams to the wider business.

  • A complete operating model: ownership, governance, funding, flow, and measurement all designed around value.

  • A shared focus on the value delivered to customers, keeping everyone pulling in the same direction.

  • End-to-end guidance to plan, justify, execute, and sustain the change, including the redesign to a value stream based operating model.

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The Professional Pathway

Four levels of professional recognition.

  • Member · Join free and access the Body of Knowledge

  • Foundation · Demonstrates understanding of the standard

  • Practitioner · Demonstrates applied judgement in designing and running the model

  • Fellow · Conferred by assessment of professional contribution and applied work

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