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SAFe® for DevOps Practitioners

By : Robert Wen
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SAFe® for DevOps Practitioners

By: Robert Wen

Overview of this book

Product development and release faces overlapping challenges due to the combined pressure of delivering high-quality products in shorter time-to-market cycles, along with maintaining proper operation and ensuring security in a complex high-tech environment. This calls for new ways of overcoming these challenges from design to development, to release, and beyond. SAFe® for DevOps Practitioners helps you use a DevOps approach with the Scaled Agile Framework and details how value streams help you resolve these challenges using examples and use cases. The book begins by explaining how the CALMR approach makes DevOps effective in resolving product development roadblocks. Next, you’ll learn to apply value stream management to establish a value stream that enables product development flow, measure its effectiveness through appropriate feedback loops, and find ways of improving it. Finally, you’ll get to grips with implementing a continuous delivery pipeline that optimizes the value stream through four phases during release on demand. This book complements the latest SAFe DevOps courses, and you’ll find it useful while studying for the SAFe DevOps Practitioner (SDP) certification. By the end of this DevOps book, you’ll have gained a clear understanding of how to achieve continuous execution and release on demand using DevOps and SAFe.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Part 1 Approach – A Look at DevOps and SAFe® through CALMR
8
Part 2:Implement – Moving Toward Value Streams
12
Part 3:Optimize – Enabling a Continuous Delivery Pipeline

Creating good measurements

We originally saw the different types of measurements we can apply in Chapter 5, Measuring the Process and Solution, where we looked at measurements in three of the following areas:

  • The development process
  • The environment
  • The customer value delivered

The set of metrics that can adequately cover these three areas of measurement are called Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

KPIs are metrics chosen to determine whether an individual, a team, a Value Stream or an Agile Release Train (ART) in our case is meeting its goals. KPIs are evaluated both at specific points in time as well as over a given time period to highlight trends and movements away from or toward a goal.

KPIs should be objective measurements and not subject to opinion or interpretation.

While looking at these measurements, we cautioned against using vanity metrics, which are measurements that yield good information but don’t really supply any meaningful data...