The value stream is depicted as an end-to-end collection of value-adding activities that create an overall result for a customer, stakeholder, or end-user.
From this outside-in view, value streams can be cross-mapped to enabling business capabilities that describe what and how, respectively, an organization must do to deliver value to the stakeholder.
For clarification: The Lean value stream is a diagrammatic representation of the sequence of activities required to design, produce, and deliver a good or service to a customer.
[9] The concept of a value stream is especially important to agile methodologies, which often seek to maximize a focus on customer or business value.
This approach encourages a common level of understanding that allows multiple disciplines to interact, creating a more consistent, simplified view of the organization.