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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

Frequently asked questions

We now take a look at some questions that may come up, even after reading the earlier parts of this book.

What is DevOps?

DevOps is a technical movement for developing and maintaining products. It incorporates Lean thinking and Agile development principles and practices to extend focus beyond development to the deployment, release, and maintenance of new products and their features. DevOps promotes the use of automation and tooling to allow frequent testing for proper functionality and security and allow for consistent deployments and releases. As products move to release, DevOps models operational practices done by developers and operations personnel that allow for rapid recovery should problems appear in production environments in a mission-based generative culture.

What is the Scaled Agile Framework®?

The Scaled Agile Framework, or SAFe, is a set of values, principles, and practices developed by Scaled Agile, Inc. SAFe is primarily adopted...