Value Streams Inventory and Attributes - Understand the relationship between the Value Streams Inventory and the Data and Information Inventory

Value Streams Inventory and Attributes

Chapter 35. Understand the relationship between the Value Streams Inventory and the Data and Information Inventory

Authored and Published By: The International Foundation for Information Technology (IF4IT), LLC

Executive Summary: Chapter Overview

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The Bottom Line

This chapter explains how value streams consume and produce Data and Information Types. Connecting Value Streams to the Data and Information Inventory creates value-stream-level lineage, showing what data enters a flow, what data leaves it, and where data quality or availability can affect stakeholder outcomes.

Core Concepts

ConceptDefinition & Strategic Role
Input Data and InformationThe Data and Information Types a value stream consumes to perform its stages.
Output Data and InformationThe Data and Information Types produced by a value stream as evidence, decisions, records, or outcomes.
Value-Stream LineageLinking data to value streams reveals where information quality and flow affect delivery outcomes.

Quick Q&A

Question: Why should Data and Information Types be connected to Value Streams?

Answer: Value streams depend on data to operate and often produce data as part of their outcomes. Connecting the inventories supports lineage, impact analysis, data quality assessment, and AI-assisted questions about how information moves through value delivery.

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Value streams consume input data and produce output data. The Data and Information Inventory and Attributes governs the Data and Information Types of the enterprise. In the Value Streams Inventory, the Key Input Data and Information and Key Output Data and Information attributes record the data a value stream consumes and produces, referencing the Data and Information Types the Data and Information Inventory defines.

This relationship enables data lineage at the level of value delivery: it shows which value streams are the authoritative producers of which data, and which value streams depend on which data as input. That lineage supports impact analysis when a data source changes and clarifies which flows of value are affected by a data quality problem.

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