Org charts and software architecture are the best representation of value creation we have. They are failing us and we know it. Software investment and staffing decisions are made anecdotally, using static and stale slivers of data.

What if we could take an fMRI of the organization?

What if we could see the flow of business value in real-time?

See evidence of bottlenecks use them to prioritize IT investment?

Re-architect our software and organization around maximizing flow?

Hypothesis test based on real-time data from every team?

This talks makes this case and also provides Guidance around:

1) Framework focused on end-to-end business value flow

2) Definition of a new role in the organization

3) Set of metrics for measuring flow

Mik Kersten, Founder & CEO, Tasktop

Carmen DeArdo, Technology Director, Nationwide