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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

Summary

This chapter introduced the complexities of implementing CI/CD and DevOps pipeline flows. The information is a precursor to Section 3 of this book, where you learn how to employ the methods and tools of VSM to implement and improve Lean production flows across your IT value streams.

Specifically, in this chapter, you learned the complexities of implementing mature CI/CD and DevOps pipelines. You learned that virtualization, primarily through container-based technologies, is crucial in order to support the efficient use of IT infrastructure resources and enable the rapid delivery of small increments of new software capabilities. Finally, you learned that CI/CD pipelines integrate and automate the traditional SDLC processes, but DevOps extends the CI/CD pipeline to include service management functions.

With this knowledge, you are now well prepared to understand how to use VSM methods and tools to implement and improve DevOps activities as Lean production-oriented flows...