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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. Helen Beal instructs us not to create DevOps teams. What does she think we should do instead?
  2. Scott Ambler suggests we can't limit our thinking to just Dev and Ops. What are the six key aspects of enterprise-class DevOps defined in PMI's DA toolkit?
  3. Pramod Malhotra suggests we shouldn't even consider initiating a DevOps initiative unless we have what?
  4. Al Wagner hears one common complaint from his customers. What is that complaint?
  5. Joel Kruger identified Configuration Management (CM) as the means to protect an organization's IT assets. While he notes CM is not a new concept, what is relatively new about CM practices in a CI/CD and DevOps pipeline context?
  6. What are the four fundamental DevOps implementation approaches an organization might take?
  7. When corporate executives mandate a rapid transition to implement DevOps, what is usually the best strategy?
  8. Jez Humble created the CALMS framework as a conceptual model for integrating...