Nov 19, 2025
When Value Streams Become Bureaucracies: The Hidden Traps of Scaling Flow
Value streams bureaucracy — three words that shouldn’t belong together, yet too often do. What started as a way to make work flow faster, clearer, and more customer-focused slowly mutates into another layer of process, governance, and control. The result? Instead of improving flow, scaling ends up slowing it down. In From Value Streams to Team Streams: Designing for Flow, I explored how…