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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
12
Part 3:Optimize – Enabling a Continuous Delivery Pipeline

Moving from project-based to product-based work

When adopting value stream thinking, it’s important to change the view and mindset of development from project-based management to product-based management.

In Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework, Mik Kersten contrasts the success of integrating IT and software in assembling BMW models in Leipzig, Germany, with the failure of Nokia to continue its dominance in the smartphone industry as the iPhone and Android phones were introduced. He notes that although Nokia had successfully adopted Agile practices, it did not appear to foster change to the entire product development process or affect the entire organization. He identifies that for this Age of Software, product-oriented development using value streams allows for the creation and maintenance of successful products.

Mik Kersten highlights seven key categories where the differences between project-based management...