Independent value streams enable fast flow by empowering teams to make most of the decisions that affect their value stream, like giving them more responsibility to deploy and support their applications. However, the extra responsibilities will be counterproductive if the complexity of building, deploying, and supporting code is too high. Teams will spend too much time on extraneous tasks that don’t contribute to product enhancements.
Making it as effortless as possible for teams to build, deploy, and support software through an outstanding developer experience (DX or DevEx) is essential to establishing truly independent value teams. Good DX enables teams to continuously deliver product enhancements rather than getting caught up in a web of intricate tasks just to get their code in front of users.