Listing the leading VSM tool providers

This chapter introduces you to the leading VSM vendors, as identified by various industry analysts, such as Forrester Research, Gartner Inc., GIGAOM, SD Times, and others. However, I have purposely steered away from repeating the views of these other industry reports regarding specific product offerings.

Instead, my goal in this book was to identify the leaders and then let each VSM vendor tell their own story if they chose to do so. Their stories are found in the sections that follow. But, before we get to that section, we need first to learn who the perceived leaders are. So, Figure 12.1 shows the current list of VSM tool and methodology vendors, placed in alphabetical order:

Figure 12.1 – List of Leading VSM Methods and Tools Vendors

I have added three VSM methodology companies, Disciplined Agile, SAFe, and the Value Stream Management Consortium (VSMC), which provide guidance on VSM applied to scaling Lean...