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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

Breaking down barriers

Nowadays, with a quick search on the internet, you will find many industry analysts and other commentators who will agree that DevOps has become the table stakes to effectively compete in our modern digital economy (Dietrich, 2019). Those organizations that master the integration and automation of tools of activities across the IT value streams of development and operations have orders of magnitude better velocity in software delivery and better quality and efficiency.

Just as Lean practices transformed the competitive landscape in manufacturing and other services-based companies, DevOps has similarly transformed the IT industry. Specifically, DevOps pipelines implement a software development strategy that is equivalent to the Lean production flow concepts in manufacturing and other industries. As a result, those organizations that effectively implement DevOps pipelines have significant competitive advantages when responding to new market opportunities, evolving...