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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
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

Setting the context for development value streams

The work done by a development value stream is applied to a solution that has a role in the greater context of the journey that the customer takes with an organization to obtain value. This greater context is captured in the operational value stream that the organization may have.

We took an initial look at the differences between Operational value streams, which detail the customer’s needs and how a company’s solutions can fit those needs, and Development value streams, which show the steps needed to develop and maintain a solution, in Chapter 2, Culture of Shared Responsibility. In this section, we will demonstrate how to create an operational value stream with the help of useful tools, such as Gemba walks. The last part of this is finding the solutions that the Operational value stream uses. These solutions become the basis for Development value streams.

Preparing for value stream identification

Mapping both...