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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

Improving your product management skills

Product management is a skill that is crucial to successful DevOps teams that want to practice lean product development. Many agile projects fail because the product owner is not able to drive the vision and make tough decisions that are often necessary. Product management is based upon three pillars:

  • Understanding your customers
  • Understanding your business
  • Understanding your product

Understanding your customers

To build products that delight customers, it is necessary to have deep empathy for the persons that use the product. In software development, we use personas (fictional characters) to represent user segments that use our product since the 90s (Goodwin, Kim (2009)). Having specific characters in mind when designing a feature helps us to be more empathetic to the needs and limitations of our customers compared to just thinking of the customers as a big group with mixed characteristics.

But today, we can do...