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Accelerate DevOps with GitHub

By : Michael Kaufmann
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Accelerate DevOps with GitHub

By: Michael Kaufmann

Overview of this book

This practical guide to DevOps uses GitHub as the DevOps platform and shows how you can leverage the power of GitHub for collaboration, lean management, and secure and fast software delivery. The chapters provide simple solutions to common problems, thereby helping teams that are already on their DevOps journey to further advance into DevOps and speed up their software delivery performance. From finding the right metrics to measure your success to learning from other teams’ success stories without merely copying what they’ve done, this book has it all in one place. As you advance, you’ll find out how you can leverage the power of GitHub to accelerate your value delivery – by making work visible with GitHub Projects, measuring the right metrics with GitHub Insights, using solid and proven engineering practices with GitHub Actions and Advanced Security, and moving to event-based and loosely coupled software architecture. By the end of this GitHub book, you'll have understood what factors influence software delivery performance and how you can measure your capabilities, thus realizing where you stand in your journey and how you can move forward.
Table of Contents (31 chapters)
1
Part 1: Lean Management and Collaboration
7
Part 2: Engineering DevOps Practices
14
Part 3: Release with Confidence
19
Part 4: Software Architecture
22
Part 5: Lean Product Management
25
Part 6: GitHub for your Enterprise

Chapter 18: Lean Product Development and Lean Startup

Until now, we have only focused on how you should build and deliver software and not on what you should build or how you can determine whether you are building the right thing. But lean product development practices have a great positive impact on software delivery performance, organizational performance, and organizational culture (Forsgren N., Humble J., & Kim G., (2018), p. 129). Therefore, many DevOps transformations start by analyzing the value streams and try to optimize product management alongside the engineering practices. But, in my opinion, this results in too many moving pieces, and it is also a chicken and egg problem. If you are not able to deliver frequently in small batch sizes, it is hard to apply lean product management practices.

In this chapter, we'll have a look into how you can apply lean product development and lean startup practices to build products that delight your end users. This chapter covers...