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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

Limiting WIP

One of the goals of Kanban is to limit WIP. With less WIP, you have less context switching and more focus. This helps you to get things done! Stop starting and start finishing!

Even when coaching Scrum teams, I’ve seen teams that start to work on all the user stories they had planned during the first days of the sprint. Every time a developer was blocked, they just started to work on another story. At the end of the sprint, all stories had been worked on, but none was finished.

In Kanban, you work on a small number of items – and in a constant pace.

Set WIP limits

Most Kanban boards support WIP limits. A WIP limit is an indicator of the maximum number of items you want to have in one column at the same time. Let’s say the WIP limit for Doing is five, and you have three items you are working on. The column would display 3/5 – normally in green as the limit is not yet reached. If you start to work on three more items, it will display...