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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

Chapter 2: Building On a Lean-Agile Foundation

The IT industry undergoes constant evolution to deliver customer-centric value more quickly and efficiently and with higher quality. Some improvement concepts, such as Agile and DevOps, came directly from the software industry. However, Lean, Systems Thinking, and Value Stream Management all have their origins outside the software industry. Still, all these practices are now mainstream in the software and digital products and services delivery industries.

Though this book is about applying VSM and DevOps practices to accelerate digital value delivery, it's essential that each organization establishes a base of foundational practices. Specifically, IT organizations need to build their VSM and DevOps capabilities upon a solid value-centric foundation of Agile, Lean, and Systems Thinking practices.

This chapter will help Lean-Agile practitioners understand how to build this integrated foundation. We'll explore Systems Thinking...