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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

Further reading

  • Krafcik, J. (1988). Triumph of the Lean Production System. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Sloan Management Review. Vol 30, Number 1. https://www.lean.org/downloads/MITSloan.pdf. Accessed November 16, 2020
  • Womack, James P., Jones, Daniel T. (1996, 2013). Lean Thinking: Banish Waste And Create Wealth In Your Corporation, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 9781471111006.
  • Womack, James P., Jones, Daniel T., Roos, Daniel (1990). Machine that Changed the World. New York: Rawson Associates, ISBN 9780892563500.
  • Poppendieck, Mary, Poppendieck, Tom (2003). Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit. Addison Wesley, Boston, MA. ISBN 0-321-15078-3.
  • Rupp, Cecil G. (2020). Scaling Scrum Across The Modern Enterprise. Implement Scrum and Lean-Agile techniques across complex products, portfolios, and programs in large organizations. Packt Publishing. Birmingham, UK.
  • Liker, Jeffrey K. (2004). The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-139231-0.
  • Rother, M., Shook, J., (1999). Learning To See: Value Stream Mapping to Create Value and Eliminate Muda, Brookline, Massachusetts: Lean Enterprise Institute.
  • Martin, K., Osterling, M. (2014). Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation. McGraw-Hill. New York, NY.
  • Tapping, D., Luyster, T., Shuker, T. (2002). Value Stream Management: Eight Steps to Planning, Mapping, and Sustaining Lean Improvements. (Create a Complete System for Lean Transformation!) 1st edition, Productivity Press, New York, NY.
  • Tapping, D., Luyster, T., Shuker, T. (2003). Value Stream Management for the Lean Office. Productivity Press, New York, NY.
  • Hines, P., Lamming, R., Jones, D., Cousins, P., Rich, N. (2000). Value Stream Management. Strategy and Excellence in the Supply Chain. Pearson Education Limited. London, England.
  • Forsgren, N., Humble, J., Kim, G. (2018). Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations. IT Revolution. Portland, OR.