Click through the job levels and functions to see how value stream management benefits different people within an organization.

Discipline:

Development

Job Level:

Individual Contributor

Job Title Examples:


  • Developers
  • Team Leads
  • Software Development Architects
  • Application Developer

Hayden is a developer at Tiger Corp. He works best when he can focus on coding without interruptions, but he spends a lot of time answering emails about work item updates or gathering data to report to his managers. With HCL Accelerate’s Dots, Hayden’s managers can see the status of his work items without having to bother him and without Hayden having to input any data – HCL Accelerate does that for him automatically!

Pain Points

The bottom line

  • Number of work items per developer is distributed based on workload
  • Time spent in meetings decreases
  • Alignment with business goals improves

Discipline:

Development

Job Level:

Manager / Leadership

Job Title Examples:


  • Development Manager
  • IT Manager
  • Product Owner
  • Scrum Master
  • Application Development Manager

Boris is a development manager at Tiger Corp. He is always scrambling to track down up-to-date work status info and output data from his team to show his bosses. He knows he’s missing crucial information but he doesn’t know how to find it in time to act on it. With HCL Accelerate’s sprint reports, Boris has the most up-to-date information at his fingertips so he can easily spot bottlenecks and act quickly to address problems before they become larger issues.

Pain Points

The bottom line

  • Delivery velocity increases
  • Time spent preparing for meetings decreases
  • Output increases
  • MTTR
  • Quality and security improves

Discipline:

Development

Job Level:

Executive

Job Title Examples:


  • Director of Engineering
  • Vice President of Product Management
  • CIO/CTO/CISO
  • Software Portfolio Executive
  • Transformation Executive
  • COE Leader

Meghan is the Director of Engineering at Tiger Corp. She wants to empower the team leaders and product managers to use the tools and methodologies that best suit their needs, but this variety makes it difficult for Meghan to get a deep knowledge and understanding of team performance and product initiative status. With HCL Accelerate’s automatically generated Insights and Reports, Meghan can get the latest pipeline information at any time, including the status of work items and custom metrics that matter most to Meghan. Using HCL Accelerate’s trend reporting, Meghan was able to identify that the highest performing teams all had the same team structure in common. Meghan was then able to establish this team structure as a best practice and spread its usage to other teams so improve their performance.

Pain Points

The bottom line

  • Customer satisfaction increases
  • Risk decreases
  • IT costs become more efficient

Discipline:

Quality & Security

Job Level:

Individual Contributor

Job Title Examples:


  • Testing Specialist
  • Security Engineer
  • QA Coordinator
  • Quality Analyst / Quality Engineer
  • SRE – Site Reliability Engineer

Sasha is a quality engineer at Tiger Corp. She gets frustrated when she spends a lot of time testing a component, only to find that the development team has pulled it from the release, leaving her behind schedule on testing what is actually going out in the next release. With HCL Accelerate’s pipeline view, Sasha now has an up-to-date picture of what is in the next release and what is top priority for testing. Plus, release gates in HCL Accelerate provide a safeguard so Sasha can see what’s at risk before she approves it for release.

Pain Points

The bottom line

  • Release frequency increases
  • More vulnerabilities detected earlier
  • Release readiness improves

Discipline:

Quality & Security

Job Level:

Manager

Job Title Examples:


  • Product Manager
  • QA Manager
  • Release Manager
  • Development Manager
  • Security Manager

Hank is a security director at Tiger Corp. He uses a homegrown solution to compile security reports and monitor risks. The tool is buggy and doesn’t integrate well with tools used by other teams, and Hank has to devote some of his team members’ cycles to maintaining this tool. With HCL Accelerate, Hank has automatically generated security and risk reports that seamlessly pull data from all the tools the various teams are using. This allows Hank to phase out the homegrown solution and devote more of his team’s time to focusing on security incidents so they can address risk faster.

Pain Points

The bottom line

  • Risk decreases
  • Code quality improves
  • PSIRT – product security incident response time – is faster
  • Identify CVEs faster
  • Convey priority more effectively to development teams

Discipline:

Quality & Security

Job Level:

Executive

Job Title Examples:


  • CISO
  • VP of Security
  • Quality Director

Marcus is the CISO at Tiger Corp. He spends a lot of his working time in meetings, getting updates from security managers across the organization, leaving him little time to deeply analyse performance. The reports that the different security managers give him all report on different metrics, tools, and team structures, making it difficult for Marcus to figure out which tools and methodologies are most beneficial to the company’s security posture and bottom line. With HCL Accelerate, Marcus can see a normalized version of all the security data across teams and departments without having to request it from the security managers. Now, Marcus’s meetings with security managers are more productive because they are focused on taking action on data rather than reporting on and interpreting data.

Pain Points

The bottom line

  • Mean time to remediation (MTTR) decreases
  • Risk posture improves
  • The number of meetings decreases

Discipline:

Business

Job Level:

Individual Contributors and Managers

Job Title Examples:


  • Client Director
  • Finance Manager
  • Operations Manager
  • Business Analyst
  • Portfolio Manager
  • Project Manager

Priya is a release manager at Tiger Corp. responsible for managing release requirements and checkpoints across multiple applications throughout the development cycle. With HCL Accelerate’s release management capabilities, Priya can define and maintain manual and automated release requirements to monitor the status of deliverables and ensure deployment plan rigidity.

Pain Points

The bottom line

  • ROI improves
  • Make better decisions to capitalize on emerging opportunities
  • Easier prioritization

Discipline:

Business

Job Level:

Executive

Job Title Examples:


  • CTO
  • COO
  • CIO

Joan is the CTO at Tiger Corp. Usually, she only hears about technical issues with the product once they’ve been released and has to scramble to assign resources to fix them. With HCL Accelerate, Joan uses automatically generated reports and insights as a single source of truth for pipeline information. This allows her to better analyze what’s causing technical issues to happen so she can align the necessary people, processes, and tools further left in the pipeline.

Pain Points

The bottom line

  • ROI improves
  • Resource allocation improves
  • Strategic goals are met sooner

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