In order for the team to properly visualize a Common Vision and work towards establishing that, is to equip them with a Common Mission, which would allow them to identify the work that needs to be done and enables them to properly prioritize their work and distinguish among different classifications (from 911/Firefighting work items to business-as-usual).
In DevOps, and pretty much every Lean-Agile methodology, when speaking of Flow, it is referring to the end-to-end production chain of software, from ideation, through development and testing, into the Production release, and extension of that to maintaining and sustaining it in a reliable, high performing state.
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