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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

Improving flows with CI/CD pipelines

In Chapter 6, Launching the VSM Initiative (VSM Steps 1-3), through to Chapter 11, Identifying VSM Tool Types and Capabilities, we will use the concepts you learn in this section as a use case to introduce how you can use an eight-step VSM methodology to improve work and information flow across a CI/CD pipeline. However, before we get to that use case, we need to have a basic understanding of the purpose of a CI/CD pipeline, its component activities, and the complexities of implementing a fully integrated and automated toolchain. Those are the topics that we'll cover in this subsection.

CI/CD toolchains enable the pipeline flows of work items and information during the software development life cycle. Another helpful way to think about CI/CD pipelines is that they enable the implementation of Lean-oriented production concepts across IT value streams. Before we discuss the components of a CI/CD pipeline, let's review the purposes of...