Value Stream Funding
Value Stream Funding
The Value Stream Funding enablers include Value Stream Planning, Lean Budgeting, and Financial Targets. Each capability within the Planview Capability Framework has a distinct set of features and functionality, business processes, best practices, and analytics and reports that deliver value to customers in the form of specific business outcomes.
Value Stream Funding Business Outcomes
Value Stream Planning
- We can define, describe, and categorize the value streams that our organization requires to realize our strategic plan and develop/operate the products, systems, and services that deliver value to our customers.
- We can define how the value stream and associated epics and features will deliver products, systems, and services.
Lean Budgeting
- We can shift our funding model to organize around the value streams that are delivering value to our customers.
- We can capture the costs of our stable team of teams against the relevant value stream.
- We can set the overall value stream budget, providing the context for analyzing and prioritizing epics.
- We can adopt an iterative approach to budgeting and adjust funding based on changing business priorities and outcome-driven indicators.
Financial Targets
- We can define benefits or revenue targets that the value stream must yield while providing the context for analyzing and prioritizing epics.
Value Stream Funding Processes
Value Stream Funding provides a mechanism to define the value streams that will realize their strategic plan. This capability allows organizations to set financial targets in terms of projected benefits and revenue and provides a financial baseline for future investments.
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