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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

Instilling the values and principles of Agile

In the previous chapter, you learned that the Manifesto for Agile Software Development (also known as the Agile Manifesto, https://agilemanifesto.org/) laid out 4 values and 12 principles for improving software delivery. If you are new to Agile, you may not know that Agile is not a specific or single methodology. There is no guidance in the Agile Manifesto on how to instill Agile's values and principles, only a description of desirable outcomes or objectives.

Another way to think about the Agile Manifesto's values and principles is the notion of being Agile and not doing agile. In other words, while there are many things we can do to improve software development agility, the Agile Manifesto does not provide prescriptive guidance on how to do Agile.

Many methodologies claim to be Agile. For those who need a primer, I introduced Agile's history and the industry-leading Agile and Lean-Agile methodologies in my previous...