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Why “Velocity” Isn’t Enough: Ivan Gekht on the Real Value of Value Stream Management

Svetozar Eliseev

Svetozar Eliseev

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Why “Velocity” Isn’t Enough: Ivan Gekht on the Real Value of Value Stream Management

Agile ceremonies and backlogs won’t fix broken systems. As InformationWeek highlights in its recent feature on Value Stream Management (VSM), high-performing IT organizations are shifting focus from team-level velocity to end-to-end flow of value.

At Gehtsoft, this isn’t new.

CEO Ivan Gekht has long advocated for engineering decisions driven by flow, not rituals:

“If you can’t trace code to business value, it’s process theater.”

In our most complex projects—FinTech superapps, regulated platforms, multi-team refactors—VSM isn’t a framework. It’s survival. We analyze friction points from idea to deployment, eliminate false signals, and optimize for throughput where it matters: value delivered to the user.

Want Agile to mean results? Step out of the silo.

📌 Read the full article: Keep Processes Flowing With Value Stream Management

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The Real Management Failure Is Not Lack of Frameworks. It Is Ideology Replacing Operational Judgment.

The Real Management Failure Is Not Lack of Frameworks. It Is Ideology Replacing Operational Judgment.

Over the last two decades, I have worked with organizations across very different environments: regulated finance, SaaS platforms, operationally constrained delivery, large engineering organizations, transformation programs, and Agile implementations at multiple scales. And one pattern appears repeatedly. Organizations stop managing operational reality and start managing management ideology. Sometimes the ideology

By Nikolay Gekht