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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

Lean product development

Building the right things is hard and often underestimated. You cannot just ask potential customers what they want. What people say they want, what they really want, and what they are willing to pay for, are three completely different things.

Lean product development was introduced by Toyota to address challenges in their product development approach, notably the lack of innovation, long development cycles, and many reproduction cycles (Ward, Allen 2007 p. 3).

Lean product development is built on cross-functional teams that take an incremental approach. The main characteristics are as follows:

  • Work in small batches.
  • Make the flow of work visible.
  • Gather and implement customer feedback.
  • Team experimentation.

As you can see, this completely aligns with what we've learned in Part 1, Lean Management and Collaboration. The new dimension is customer feedback and experimentation. But without the ability to work in small batches...