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Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management

By : Cecil 'Gary' Rupp
Book Image

Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management

By: Cecil 'Gary' Rupp

Overview of this book

Value Stream Management (VSM) opens the door to maximizing your DevOps pipeline investments by improving flows and eliminating waste. VSM and DevOps together deliver value stream improvements across enterprises for a competitive advantage in the digital world. Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management provides a comprehensive review and analysis of industry-proven VSM methods and tools to integrate, streamline, and orchestrate activities within a DevOps-oriented value stream. You'll start with an introduction to the concepts of delivering value and understand how VSM methods and tools support improved value delivery from a Lean production perspective. The book covers the complexities of implementing modern CI/CD and DevOps pipelines and then guides you through an eight-step VSM methodology with the help of a use case showing an Agile team's efforts to install a CI/CD pipeline. Free from marketing hype or vendor bias, this book presents the current VSM tool vendors and customer use cases that showcase their products' strengths. As you advance through the book, you'll learn four approaches to implementing a DevOps pipeline and get guidance on choosing the best fit. By the end of this VSM book, you'll be ready to develop and execute a plan to streamline your software delivery pipelines and improve your organization's value stream delivery.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Section 1:Value Delivery
7
Section 2:VSM Methodology
13
Section 3:VSM Tool Vendors and Frameworks
18
Section 4:Applying VSM with DevOps

Questions

  1. What is the purpose and objective of the VSMC?
  2. Structurally, the VSMC practices what it preaches by aligning its work around three value streams. What are they?
  3. What is the initial research offering provided by the VSMC?
  4. PMI acquired two companies to jump-start its Lean-Agile practices. What were those two companies, and what were their offerings?
  5. What is Disciplined Agile's approach to assisting Lean-Agile teams?
  6. What is the purpose of process blades within the DA toolkit?
  7. What are the four layers of the DA toolkit?
  8. What role does FLEX play within the DA toolkit?
  9. State the importance of value streams within the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®).
  10. What are the key elements of Lean value streams within SAFe?
  11. In a broader, enterprise context, how does SAFe define value stream management?
  12. What are the flows that contribute to SAFe's Continuous Delivery Pipeline (CDP)?
  13. What is the relevance of DevOps to SAFe...