Online Intro to Value Stream Mapping Workshop by Miguel Dias and Ortwin De Witte

What You'll Learn

Practical tools to visualize, analyze and optimize your workflows.

In this hands-on 1-hour workshop, you'll map a delivery workflow, identify bottlenecks, and apply lean principles to improve your delivery’s effectiveness.

What is Value Stream Mapping?

Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is designed to help teams achieve a specific business outcome by improving work processes.

In a series of group mapping activities, teams visualize the flow of work from start to finish, identify inefficiencies, delays, and waste. The team uses what they’ve learned to create a roadmap of measurable improvement actions, in service of delivering more value to the customer.

Originally developed at Toyota in the 1940s, value stream mapping helps teams visualize workflows to eliminate waste and deliver value faster. More info.

Who Should Attend?

• Leaders: Visualize what's blocking your business goals
• Product People: Speed up feature delivery and time-to-value
• Designers: Get user feedback faster by removing process roadblocks
• Engineers: Apply DevOps principles to improve deployment workflows
• Anyone who wants to make work less annoying and improve delivery of value to the customer

Workshop Agenda

1. Arrival and Introductions (5 min)
2. Quick Introduction to Value Stream Mapping (5 min)
3. Hands-on Mapping Exercise (30 min)
4. Group Discussion on Constraints & Solutions (15 min)
5. Action Planning & Next Steps (5 min)

Logistics

The call opens at start time, and it's first-come, first-serve - the first 10 people to join get to participate! If we're at capacity when you arrive, try again next time, or reach out about booking an exclusive workshop for you and your team!

I'm choosing this approach for 2 reasons:

• What counts is whether you show up to the workshop, not how far in advance you've booked it
• Online sessions work best when they're short and small so everyone gets time to participate and ask questions

What do others say?

• Feedback participants: online workshop
• Feedback participants: in-persion workshop in Lisbon with PRODUCTIZED and Patrice Corbard
• Feedback from Patrice Corbard, co-facilitator
• Feedback participants: in-persion workshop in Berlin with Domain Driven Design Berlin
• Feedback from running a full Value Stream Mapping workshop in practice

About Miguel Dias

I’m a Software Engineer with over five years of experience, building and scaling systems for large companies, startups, and a nonprofit. I spent 2024 leading Value Stream Mapping initiatives at Relex, a global SaaS company, involving individual teams, multiple teams, and an entire technology department. I’ve partnered with these teams to increase revenue by onboarding customers faster, preventing service disruptions, delivering value more often, and wasting less time. A thought leader in the Value Stream Mapping and DevOps space, I’m actively engaged with the international community, and currently launching my own consultancy in Berlin.

About Ortwin De Witte

Ortwin loves helping teams work better together by making the flow of work visible and meaningful. He’s been around in IT for a while, mostly in Agile, DevOps, and transformation roles, but what really drives him is seeing people connect the dots, spot what’s getting in the way, and take ownership of real change. He loves creating space for that to happen.