Value Streams Inventory and Attributes - Classification Attributes for the Value Streams Inventory

Value Streams Inventory and Attributes

Chapter 9. Classification Attributes for the Value Streams Inventory

Classification attributes position each Value Stream within the enterprise taxonomy — the broad business domain it serves, whether it is operational or developmental in nature, and its role relative to the enterprise mission.

Attribute Name	Maturity	Description and Notes
Business Classification	Crawl	Description — The broad business domain the Value Stream primarily serves, drawn from the same three-domain scheme used across the IF4IT inventory family. Benefit(s) — Enables portfolio-level analysis by domain. Provides vocabulary consistency with the Capabilities Inventory and other IF4IT inventories. Source — Manual Examples — Industry-Specific, Core Business, Information Technology (IT) Notes — Valid values: Industry-Specific \| Core Business \| Information Technology (IT). Unlike in the Capabilities Inventory — where these three values define a hierarchy — here they are a flat classification tag. Value Streams characteristically cross domains; classify each Value Stream by the primary domain of the value it delivers. An “Idea to Deployed Software” value stream is classified Information Technology (IT) because the delivered value is a technology capability, even though its trigger is a business demand.
Value Stream Type	Crawl	Description — Identifies whether the Value Stream delivers value directly to an external or business stakeholder, or builds and delivers the solutions that enable other Value Streams. Benefit(s) — Distinguishes the two fundamentally different kinds of value stream so that each can be analyzed and governed appropriately. Source — Manual Examples — Operational, Development Notes — Valid values: Operational \| Development. An Operational Value Stream delivers value to a customer or stakeholder in the course of running the enterprise. A Development Value Stream builds the products, systems, and solutions that the operational value streams depend on. This inventory governs both, with operational value streams as the primary construct.
Value Stream Category	Walk	Description — The Value Stream’s role relative to the enterprise mission and competitive position. Benefit(s) — Supports portfolio analysis by separating value streams that deliver the core mission from those that support or enable it. Source — Manual Examples — Core, Supporting, Enabling Notes — Valid values: Core \| Supporting \| Enabling. Core value streams deliver the enterprise’s primary value to its primary stakeholders. Supporting value streams sustain the enterprise’s ability to operate. Enabling value streams build the capacity that core and supporting value streams draw upon.

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