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Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management

You're reading from   Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management Improve IT value stream delivery with a proven VSM methodology to compete in the digital economy

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801078061
Length 676 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Cecil 'Gary' Rupp Cecil 'Gary' Rupp
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1:Value Delivery
2. Chapter 1: Delivering Customer-Centric Value FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Building On a Lean-Agile Foundation 4. Chapter 3: Analyzing Complex System Interactions 5. Chapter 4: Defining Value Stream Management 6. Chapter 5: Driving Business Value through a DevOps Pipeline 7. Section 2:VSM Methodology
8. Chapter 6: Launching the VSM Initiative (VSM Steps 1-3) 9. Chapter 7: Mapping the Current State (VSM Step 4) 10. Chapter 8: Identifying Lean Metrics (VSM Step 5) 11. Chapter 9: Mapping the Future State (VSM Step 6) 12. Chapter 10: Improving the Lean-Agile Value Delivery Cycle (VSM Steps 7 and 8) 13. Section 3:VSM Tool Vendors and Frameworks
14. Chapter 11: Identifying VSM Tool Types and Capabilities 15. Chapter 12: Introducing the Leading VSM Tool Vendors 16. Chapter 13: Introducing the VSM-DevOps Practice Leaders 17. Chapter 14: Introducing the Enterprise Lean-VSM Practice Leaders 18. Section 4:Applying VSM with DevOps
19. Chapter 15: Defining the Appropriate DevOps Platform Strategy 20. Chapter 16: Transforming Businesses with VSM and DevOps 21. Assessments 22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Integrating Lean, Agile, VSM, and DevOps

So far, you have learned that Agile's values and principles, Lean production practices, and the collaboration, integration, and automation capabilities of VSM and DevOps all support an organization's primary objective: to deliver customer-centric value. As a Lean-Agile practitioner, your job is to help blend these concepts and capabilities into a seamless way of working.

Industry research confirms that Agile and Lean-Agile practices are now mainstream. For example, Digital.ai's 14th Annual State of Agile report (2020) found that 75% of their IT respondents are practicing Scrum or a hybrid of Scrum as their preferred Agile-based framework and that 35% of the respondents use the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) as their scaling Lean-Agile based framework of choice. Those numbers are 5% up from the previous year.

In the meantime, the installation of DevOps capabilities is increasingly viewed as table stakes to participate in our global digital economy. The high performers' metrics demonstrate that those organizations that effectively master DevOps have a significant competitive advantage over those that do not.

In contrast, VSM is still an emergent practice that is quickly evolving and gaining acceptance across the IT industry. However, given the large-scale success of Lean production concepts across the manufacturing and service industries, the fundamental lean concepts behind VSM bolsters the point of view that suggests continued adoption and success in the IT industry. This prediction stands because IT value streams must align with and support the broader Lean enterprise's value streams.

In her blog titled How to Use Value Stream Mapping in DevOps at https://www.lucidchart.com/blog/, Lizz Corrigan makes the following observation:

"In a DevOps environment, VSM and lean methodologies are tailored to specific actions, such as moving work between teams to creating tangible deliverables and incident reports. DevOps VSM is a uniting visual representation of how IT and businesses build, deploy, and manage workflows. It should begin with the SDLC and move through quality assurance and release/operations."

In short, VSM provides the infrastructure to guide and monitor new requirements through the DevOps pipeline. By the end of this book, you should have a solid understanding of how to link these capabilities to marshal and accelerate value-oriented work across IT development and operations functions.

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Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management
Published in: Aug 2021
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781801078061
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