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Broadcom announced new capabilities for Value Stream Management (VSM) in its ValueOps software portfolio, seamlessly combining the proven investment planning features of Clarity™ with the advanced Agile management capabilities of Rally® software.

This new integration delivers a unified solution for business and IT leaders to create and manage consistent value streams that span the enterprise, eliminating friction between roles, reducing cycle times, and improving quality.

“Our implementation of VSM provides executives with a major leap forward in how they can understand and analyze priorities, capacity, progress, and results within their organizations,” said Serge Lucio, VP and GM, Enterprise Software Division, Broadcom. “ValueOps from Broadcom is the first solution to extend the concept of a value stream beyond DevOps and operational roles. This new leading-edge solution encompasses metrics and capabilities that matter to business leaders most, tracking value through a continuous product lifecycle and demonstrating significant returns on their investments.”

Broadcom Software’s ValueOps solution delivers on the promise of VSM by combining business and investment-oriented product management, providing advanced operationally focused Agile planning and management capabilities. The integration of Broadcom’s proven Clarity and Rally software products enables every role within an enterprise to manage, track and analyze unified value streams with a consistent value orientation and methodology. Combining these leading-edge tools delivers the crucial insights tailored to meet the needs and requirements of each discipline.

ValueOps from Broadcom helps business leaders prioritize and fund their most effective opportunities and articulate them as actionable engineering deliverables, while tracking their overall enterprise value. This innovative new solution demonstrate a substantial return on investment as they progress through the delivery value stream. Highlights include:

- Digital Product Management: flexible organizational tools that work in ways that make sense to the business, such as custom visualization of programs, teams, and other investment objects.

- Context Aware Insights: aggregate real-time data from across the enterprise and external sources such as end-user telemetry to paint a complete picture of value stream delivery, performance, and return on investment.

For technical leaders, ValueOps from Broadcom adds the “value” to the DevOps value stream. It seamlessly connects strategic investment plans, funding, business objectives, and key results, ensuring that resources are efficiently delivering the highest-priority and most valuable initiatives. VSM capabilities include:

- Agile Management Driven Directly from Investment Plans: increases alignment with the business and provides delivery roles with better visibility into dependencies, risks, scope growth, and funding changes.

- End-to-End Traceability: value streams that map to investment decisions and roll up to business decision-makers in meaningful ways, increasing transparency and allowing DevOps leaders to effectively demonstrate efficiency and value.