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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 OKRs to drive business transformations

The concepts behind OKRs were created by Andy Grove, the former CEO of Intel, whose leader transformed the company into the world's largest semiconductor company. Early advocates of OKRs, first at Intel, followed by other technology companies, including Google. The employment of OKRs by Intel and Google was chronicled in the book Measure What Matters, by John Doerr (Doerr, 2017).

John Doerr learned about the use of OKRs from Andy Grove as an employee at Intel before he left to become a venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins. During his tenure with Kleiner Perkins, he taught the principles behind OKRs to the companies he invested in, including Google.

OKRs are fairly simple in concept. Objectives state what is to be achieved by the organization, while Key Results are the targets we set and monitor as objective measures of successful outcomes. More than a set of goals and measurements, OKRs serve as a management methodology and...