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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

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

SAFe is the leading framework for scaling Agile across the enterprise. It provides four configurations to implement Lean-Agile practices in a large enterprise where the small team structures of traditional Agile approaches are insufficient to manage work in large economies of scale. With more than 20,000 enterprises worldwide practicing SAFe and more than 800,000 individuals trained to date, SAFe is the world's leading framework for scaling Lean-Agile practices across the enterprise.

Relevant to the topic of this book, value streams are a core construct of a SAFe portfolio and are woven into the fabric of the framework and provide execution guidance for all people and levels within the organization. In this section, you will learn how SAFe employs Lean-Agile concepts, including the alignment of human talent and business resources around delivering value as horizontal flows. You will also learn how SAFe implements value stream management as part...