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

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801078061

Length 676 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Scrum

Concepts

Agile

Author (1):

Cecil 'Gary' Rupp

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

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

Getting started with mapping

For this section, let’s assume your organization and VSM team are fully primed and committed to Lean practices. You’ve also chosen your value stream and have learned the fundamentals of Lean practices. Now, it’s time to start doing the work to begin your transition to a Lean enterprise. There’s no reason to delay any further. In the immortal words of Taiichi Ohno:

Just do it!

Since this is a book on VSM driving development-operations (DevOps) capabilities, our examples follow Lean improvements across the continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) sections of an IT value stream. As you learned in Chapter 5, Driving Business Value through a DevOps Pipeline, CI/CD practices are a subset of a more extensive DevOps pipeline. Therefore, our CI/CD VSM use-case example aims to simplify the scope of analysis to focus on employing VSM methods and tools.

Don’t forget that DevOps is a critical enabler of...