Inside the Messy Middle of a Value Stream Network
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Most conference talks pitch the polished win. Ja'Mesa Dixon, Senior Delivery Stream Lead at Zayo Group, is at Flowtopia Live 2026 to tell a different story — the messy middle. Ja'Mesa joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to preview her first-ever conference talk, where she'll walk through what it actually looks like to move an organization from old ways of working into a real value stream network. She and Alan trade notes on her non-traditional path into tech, why Lean and value stream thinking finally clicked for her, and how she's pairing human intelligence with AI as she builds out the session. If you've ever been told a transformation story that felt too clean to be true, this is the one to watch.
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