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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

Chapter 6: Launching the VSM Initiative (VSM Steps 1-3)

  1. Implementing Lean concepts within an organization and making Lean development and delivery processes a way of life.
  2. Lean companies are more competitive than others because they continuously improve their business operations. Lean enterprises are more employee-friendly because they have respect for their work, and delegate responsibilities to the people doing the work. They also help to minimize the bureaucracy and hierarchical organizational structures that get in the way of productivity and ultimately cause employee stress and burnout.
  3. Ask questions to determine the states of flow, order processing, lost sizes, customer demands, state of cleanliness and orderliness, inventory management, equipment setups, and product changeovers.
  4. Demand, Flow, and Leveling
  5. When you are just starting your VSM initiative, you may not yet know what good looks like in Lean performance and waste metrics.
  6. Heijunka is a load...