VSM Workshop Pack — Value Stream Mapping Workshop Kit

Most value stream maps end up on a wall. The current state gets drawn, the future state gets admired, and six months later nothing has changed. Not because the map was wrong, but because nobody planned the workshop to end in decisions, owners and dates.

The VSM Workshop Pack is everything a facilitator needs to run the workshop properly and to keep the plan moving for the 90 days after it. It's built around the free Qlause Value Stream Builder, which draws the maps and does the maths while the team decides.

What's included

• Facilitator Guide (Word + PDF). How to choose the value stream, the sponsor and the team; the data to gather beforehand; a two-day agenda minute by minute (and a three-half-day version); how to run every session, with what goes wrong and what to do; the objections you'll hear and how to answer them; checklists for before, Day 1, Day 2 and after; a symbol reference, a formula sheet with worked examples, and a glossary.
• Workshop slides (PowerPoint, 19 slides with speaker notes). Opening and sponsor slide, VSM in four steps, the symbols, takt time, the walk rules, what to collect, reading the current state, the seven principles, the nine future-state questions, flow or pull, the future state, the action plan, the 90-day rhythm, the A3 report-out and the sponsor's commitments. Bracketed fields to fill in; put your own logo on the slide master.
• Workshop Workbook (Excel). Future-State Design (the nine questions in order, what to look at, typical answers, space for the team's decision and the reason) · Kaizen Actions (one owner, start and due dates, status, next step; overdue actions flag themselves) · Dashboard (done, in progress, stuck, overdue, and which levers the plan relies on) · 30-60-90 Reviews (dates calculate from the workshop date) · KPI Tracker (lead time, stock, on-time delivery and first-pass yield against target, with a chart) · A3 Summary (one printable A3 page for the management meeting).
• Value Stream Walk Kit (Excel). Takt calculator, stopwatch sheet, process data and inventory count sheets, and a walk checklist.

Why it works

• Built around one rule: every kaizen burst becomes an action with one owner and a due date before anyone leaves the room.
• Follows the future-state questions made standard by Rother and Shook's Learning to See, in the same order as the Value Stream Builder's improvement guide.
• A worked example runs through everything (an invented steel-bracket line where lead time falls from 37.5 days to 8), so you can see each step filled in before you do your own.
• Plain Word, PowerPoint and Excel: no macros, no add-ins, nothing to install. Edit everything.
• Instant download, secure checkout (Visa, Mastercard, PayPal).
• Single-organisation licence: every site, every user, no subscriptions.
• 14-day, no-questions full refund.

Who it's for

CI and lean practitioners, operations and production managers, and quality engineers who are about to run their first value stream mapping workshop, or whose last one produced a nice map and no change.

Try the free parts first: the Value Stream Builder is free with no sign-up, and the Value Stream Walk Kit is a free download.