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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

In this chapter, you had the chance to hear from five industry experts on their views about potential DevOps implementation pitfalls and various DevOps platform implementation strategies. These five individuals were selected to provide as broad a base of hands-on experiences as possible.

Next, you learned about four fundamental approaches to implementing DevOps platforms. This included building a custom DevOps platform, purchasing a cloud-based DevOps as a Service (DaaS) solution offering, employing VSM tools to integrate and orchestrate your DevOps toolchains, and building software factories by constructing self-service CaC, downloadable via Git or another SCM tool.

Finally, you reviewed 18 implementation scenarios that can create issues for your DevOps platform implementation program. As you read through these scenarios, you were encouraged to identify how you can leverage what you've learned about VSM and DevOps methods, as well as the tools to overcome these...