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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

Uniting VSM initiatives

Lean concepts are not new. For example, arguments could be made that Henry Ford's Model T production assembly lines embodied several of the concepts applied in modern Lean practices. For example, Ford created continuous and streamlined flows across automotive assembly lines and sequenced parts to arrive just before assembly. But it was the founder and future leaders of Toyota who took these concepts to the next level, led by these three individuals primarily:

  • Sakichi Toyoda – Toyota's founder

    Developed and implemented the concepts behind Jidokaautomation with a human touch – as the means to facilitate quality at the source.

  • Kiichiro Toyota – Sakichi Toyoda's son

    Founded the Toyota Motor Corporation and developed just-in-time (JIT) concepts for manufacturing.

  • Taichi Ohno – Shop-floor supervisor, industrial engineer, and executive at Toyota

    Integrated Toyota's JIT system with its Jidoka System...