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SAFe® for DevOps Practitioners

By : Robert Wen
Book Image

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

Synthesizing the work

Product management has gained knowledge and collected additional research on the customer’s needs that may contribute to anticipated value. The system architect has looked into ensuring that architectural support already exists or may be forthcoming in an upcoming enabler. Product management collaborates with business owners, product owners, Agile teams, and others to complete the following activities:

  • Complete the definition of the feature
  • Use BDD to outline the acceptance criteria
  • Prioritize the feature on the Program Backlog using Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF)
  • Prepare for PI planning

The goal of synthesis is to ready the ART for the upcoming PI. For this, we will create the following artifacts:

  • A clear vision of what the ART will develop
  • A roadmap that details the product’s evolution by showing when possible solutions will be delivered
  • A backlog of defined features

Let’s examine these...