Product Ownership and Product Management follow an agile framework at many organizations or have been heavily influenced by one. Agile frameworks and industry guidance contain theories for practices, techniques, and events centering on a single product and the team or teams needed to enhance and maintain it. Team-level agile may bring improvement, but it lacks an end-to-end perspective.

That is where Value Stream Management can solve many of the challenges in the flow of value delivery, the entire flow, compared to agile frameworks that focus primarily on just one part, the development team.

A localized or siloed improvement, such as the development team, often results in a smaller improvement in flow than expected. Significant opportunities are frequently found in how value increments are identified and brought to a state of readiness to implement. Portfolio Management, Product Management, and Product Ownership can unlock the untapped potential flow of a value stream.