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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

Summary

Experimentation, A|B testing, and hypothesis-driven development are difficult topics as they require a high level of maturity in many areas:

  • Management: Your teams need the autonomy to decide on their own what to build and how to build it.
  • Culture: You need a culture of trust where people are not afraid to fail.
  • Cross-team collaboration: Your teams must be able to work interdisciplinarily, as experimentation often requires the collaboration of different departments.
  • Technical capabilities: You must be able to release changes in a very short time to production and target individual customer segments.
  • Insights: You must have strong analytics capabilities and combine data and metrics from different sources.

If you are not there yet, don’t worry. Many teams I work with are not. Just keep on improving your capabilities and check that your metrics show results. DevOps is a journey and not a goal, and you must take it one step at a time.

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