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Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management

By : Cecil 'Gary' Rupp
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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

Using VSM for DevOps improvements

In Chapter 5, Driving Business Value through a DevOps Pipeline, you learned how to apply a generic eight-step VSM methodology to any VSM improvement initiative. We used that same eight-step approach in our CI/CD pipeline improvement use case in Chapter 6, Launching the VSM Initiative (VSM Steps 1-3), through Chapter 10, Improving the Lean-Agile Value Delivery Cycle (VSM Steps 7 and 8). There is no reason we cannot use that same eight-step methodology to guide DevOps pipeline improvements.

Still, the VSM Consortium recommends a slightly different roadmap for VSM implementations related to making improvements across DevOps activities and toolchains, as shown in the following figure:

Figure 16.1 – VSM Consortium – A VSM Implementation Roadmap

In the VSM Implementation Roadmap, you can see similarities to both Lean and Agile improvement concepts. In fact, it's an amalgamation of both practices.

Implementing...