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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
2
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

Further reading

  • The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping your Business Win by Gene Kim, George Spafford, and Kevin Behr – We’ve used this book and its Three Ways to discuss how value streams are created and maintained.
  • The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge – The reference when learning about how to be a learning organization.
  • https://valshebnik.com/blog/left-hand-column/: This article provides an excellent description of Left-Hand Column Analysis, including definition, examples, and dangers.
  • https://hbr.org/2011/07/are-you-a-collaborative-leader: This article looks at how leaders can collaborate and share with their companies.
  • https://blog.empuls.io/organizational-vision/: This article looks at sharing an organizational vision, the benefits, and tips and tricks to do so.
  • https://ecochallenge.org/iceberg-model/: An article describing the Iceberg Model, which illustrates...