Map Your Career Through Value Streams

摘要

When we first embark on our chosen career paths, we are often told-through college courses, career counselors or vocational training-to map where we see ourselves five or 10 years down the line. By mapping our talents, knowledge base and training, we might get a clear picture of what our future careers hold. But how many of us map our careers at a later point? Have you tried to benchmark your career after 10, 15 or 20 years to determine whether you are still going the direction you chose? A value stream is all actions, both value creating and not, that are required to bring a product from initial launch to delivery. The product is your career-how you started it and where your actions have delivered you until now. As a value stream manager, you have the responsibility for the success of the product. You need to identify your career's value to you as well as to your employer or clients. Value is the inherent worth of something-as judged by the recipient. The value you provide your employer or client is shown through such things as compensation, recognition, opportunity and satisfaction levels.