FFC NL 2025 TALKS

Value stream maps are incredibly useful diagnostic tools for organisations looking to improve their flow, but the time investment required to create and maintain an accurate map is a common barrier to their adoption. Have you ever spent hours, even days with teams to help them build an accurate insightful value stream map, before the conversion finally gets to the key question- “how do we improve this?” What if there was a way to shortcut that up front investment, without loosing the insight it brings? At Atom bank, we are pioneering automated, real time, data driven value stream maps that do just that. In the modern digital age, all product and software development activities are rich with digital footprints; we simply make that data visible and actionable. In this talk, I will share how we have evolved our value stream mapping approach and tooling to allow teams to quickly pinpoint bottlenecks and optimise flow without the traditional overhead, giving us more time to ask - “how do we get better?”