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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)
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

Questions

  1. What is a common use of VSM and DevOps tools and related implementation initiatives?
  2. Ture or False: Lean and VSM are new concepts.
  3. What problem did the leaders at Toyota face when they evolved the concepts that we describe today as Lean production?
  4. What set of problems did the software community set out to address through the values and principles behind the Manifesto for Agile Software Development?
  5. Which three steps of the VSM Implementation Roadmap correlate most closely with the generic eight-step VSM methodology introduced in this book?
  6. Which step within the VSM Implementation Roadmap helps provide visibility across DevOps pipelines?
  7. What are common improvement horizons and levels of authority for Agile and Lean?
  8. Implementing a VSM or DevOps toolchain in isolation from evaluating improvements in other value streams is an example of what, and why do we care?
  9. What is the purpose of portfolio management, and why do we care?
  10. Why do...