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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)
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Section 1:Value Delivery
7
Section 2:VSM Methodology
13
Section 3:VSM Tool Vendors and Frameworks
18
Section 4:Applying VSM with DevOps

Avoiding DevOps implementation pitfalls

While preparing to write this chapter, I interviewed several people whose opinions I value as expert practitioners in deploying DevOps tools and toolchains. They are Scott Ambler (Vice President and Chief Scientist for Disciplined Agile at the Project Management Institute), Al Wagner (HCL Software VSM and DevOps Evangelist), Helen Beal (Chief Ambassador at DevOps Institute and Chair of the VSMC), Pramod Malhotra (DevOps Services Executive), and Joel Kruger (Senior DevOps Engineer specialized in developing reusable software factories).

Helen Beal's credentials in the DevOps and DevOps communities are immense. She explains how DevOps implementations typically evolve to include multiple tools and the need for VSM tools to both improve and orchestrate software delivery workflows. Scott Ambler approaches DevOps from a Lean-Agile perspective and choosing your Way of Working (WoW) when implementing DevOps platforms.

Pramod Malhotra discusses...