Value Stream Analysis and Mapping for Project Management

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Value Stream Analysis and Mapping (VSA/M) is a tool for business process improvement.[1] Value Stream Analysis (VSA) is a tool that implements lean principles for the examination of business processes. The tool, focus on the development of tasks which add value to the final product, efficiently linked together to form a continuously flowing stream of value.[1]


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History

The use of VSA/M began as a tool for manufacturing processes improvement.

Methodology

Application

Discussion

Value Stream Mapping can be thought as a tool which facilitates the transformation from a traditional manufacturing company to a Lean Enterprise. It is a planning tool to target ideal processes and roadmaps to desired improvements.[2]

Advantages

Limitations

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Key references

  1. 1.0 1.1 http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/7333/Value%20Stream%20Analysis%20and%20Mapping.pdf?sequence=1
  2. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.201.6852&rep=rep1&type=pdf
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