Stream: Virtual Room 9
Time: 11:15 - 12:00
For decades, mainframe development has operated in the shadows of enterprise visibility. While distributed teams adopted Agile and DevOps with growing transparency into their workflows, mainframe teams — responsible for the most critical business applications on the planet — have been left without the same insight into how work flows from idea to production. Drawing on the principles introduced by Dr. Mik Kersten in Project to Product, this session makes the case that mainframe organizations are overdue for a fundamental shift in how they measure and manage software delivery. Most enterprises still treat mainframe development as a series of projects managed through budgets and milestones, when they should be treating those applications as products delivering continuous business value. The result is a disconnect between business leaders speaking in terms of customer outcomes and technology teams speaking in terms of sprints and deployments — with no shared language to bridge the gap. This session introduces Value Stream Management as the framework that closes that gap. Attendees will explore Kersten's Flow Framework, learn how metrics like cycle time, flow velocity, and flow efficiency surface bottlenecks and drive smarter investment decisions, and see what VSM looks like in practice for mainframe organizations. Mainframe applications deserve the same level of measurement and optimization that any modern product receives. This session shows you how to make that shift. Key Takeaways: Why the project mindset is limiting mainframe visibility and disconnecting technology from business leadership What Value Stream Management is and how the Flow Framework applies to mainframe delivery Which flow metrics matter most and how to act on them How to move from tribal knowledge and spreadsheets to operational, data-driven VSM Target Audience: Development Managers, Mainframe Architects, DevOps Practitioners, IT Leadership
Spencer Hallman is the Lead Product Manager for BMC AMI zAdviser Enterprise at BMC Software. With a career spanning mainframe performance, software development, and enterprise product management, Spencer brings a uniquely broad perspective to the challenge of measuring and optimizing mainframe development productivity. He holds an MBA in Operations Research from Temple University and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Vermont.
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