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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

Summary

In this chapter, we took an extensive look at value streams. We saw that aligning our activities in terms of value streams is a key approach used in DevOps and is a major part of transforming SAFe through its implementation roadmap.

We started out by looking at the current state of our organization. We prepared the team to look at mapping our value streams and looked at how we receive work through Gemba walks. From this examination, we saw what our process is and any deficiencies in it.

We then looked at discovering and mapping our value streams. We started by mapping our operational value streams, which connect us to our customers. From there, we started looking at the solutions that our operational value streams use to bring value to our customers. With the solutions in hand, we looked at the development value streams that create and maintain those solutions. Finally, we looked at metrics to view the current state of the development Value Stream and measure our improvement...