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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
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Part 2:Implement – Moving Toward Value Streams
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Part 3:Optimize – Enabling a Continuous Delivery Pipeline

Moving to the Future with Continuous Learning

So far, we have looked at value stream management by using the Three Ways identified in The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win. By following the First Way, establishing Flow, we looked at determining and mapping our development value streams. In the Second Way, we amplified the feedback loops in our value streams by adopting meaningful KPIs.

We’ll now look at the Third Way: continuous learning and experimentation. A critical part of DevOps is the realization that the journey of transformation has no end destination. That is, your organization will continue improving and setting further goals to create a stronger value stream. You will create more and improved future-state value streams as you discover and optimize continuously with no end in sight.

In this chapter, we will look at finding future states for your value stream by discussing the following topics:

  • Adopting a continuous...