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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

Further reading

Here are some resources for you to explore this topic further:

  • Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work and Flow by Dominica DeGrandis: A look at five time thieves and how Lean practices can remove them. Too much WIP is identified as one of these time thieves.
  • The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt: A look at the Theory of Constraints and how to eliminate bottlenecks in your process.
  • Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business by David J. Anderson: The authoritative source on Kanban. Further exploration of the Kanban board and limiting WIP can be found here.
  • The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald Reinertsen: An exhaustive look at the economics behind Lean practices in this chapter, whether limiting WIP, identifying the ideal batch size, or the effects of utilization and variability the effects of utilization and variability.
  • Project to Product: How to...