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

Svetozar Eliseev

18 Apr 2024 — 1 min read

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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