Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management
Packt Publishing Limited (Verlag)
978-1-80107-806-1 (ISBN)
A practical guide to implementing Value Stream Management to guide your strategic investments in DevOps capabilities and deliver customer-centric value quickly and economically
Key Features
Address DevOps implementation issues, including culture, toolchain costs, improving work and information flows, and product team alignment
Implement proven VSM methodology to improve IT value stream flows
Leverage VSM platforms to view, analyze, and improve end-to-end value delivery
Book DescriptionValue Stream Management (VSM) opens the door to maximizing your DevOps pipeline investments by improving flows and eliminating waste. VSM and DevOps together deliver value stream improvements across enterprises for a competitive advantage in the digital world. Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management provides a comprehensive review and analysis of industry-proven VSM methods and tools to integrate, streamline, and orchestrate activities within a DevOps-oriented value stream.
You'll start with an introduction to the concepts of delivering value and understand how VSM methods and tools support improved value delivery from a Lean production perspective. The book covers the complexities of implementing modern CI/CD and DevOps pipelines and then guides you through an eight-step VSM methodology with the help of a use case showing an Agile team's efforts to install a CI/CD pipeline. Free from marketing hype or vendor bias, this book presents the current VSM tool vendors and customer use cases that showcase their products' strengths. As you advance through the book, you'll learn four approaches to implementing a DevOps pipeline and get guidance on choosing the best fit.
By the end of this VSM book, you'll be ready to develop and execute a plan to streamline your software delivery pipelines and improve your organization's value stream delivery.
What you will learn
Integrate Agile, systems thinking, and lean development to deliver customer-centric value
Find out how to choose the most appropriate value stream for your initial and follow-on VSM projects
Establish better flows with integrated, automated, and orchestrated DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
Apply a proven eight-step VSM methodology to drive lean IT value stream improvements
Discover the key strengths of modern VSM tools and their customer use case scenarios
Understand how VSM drives DevOps pipeline improvements and value delivery transformations across enterprises
Who this book is forThis book will help corporate executives, managers, IT team members, and other stakeholders involved in digital business transformations to improve the flow of customer value through their IT-based value streams. It will provide you with the practical guidance you need while adopting Lean-Agile, Value Stream Management, and DevOps capabilities on an enterprise scale to enable business agility. A basic understanding of how CI/CD and DevOps pipelines improve software delivery capabilities via integrated and automated toolchains will help you to make the most of the book.
Cecil Rupp brings more than 30 years of practitioner and executive-level experience in applying the methods and tools of information technology (IT) for soft ware development. His roles span IT professional services, management, business process re-engineering consulting, product management, sales, and marketing. In addition, Mr. Rupp has directly managed more than 30 enterprise-class IT programs and projects, with the last 15 years focused almost exclusively on supporting large federal and commercial health IT programs. He is also the author of the Building our Digital World (BODW) series of books on soft ware and systems development practices.
Table of Contents
Delivering Customer-centric Value
Building on a Lean-Agile Foundation
Analyzing Complex Systems Interactions
Defining Value Stream Management (VSM) concepts
Driving business value through a DevOps Pipeline
Launching the VSM Initiative (VSM Steps 1 - 3)
Mapping the current state (VSM Step 4)
Identifying lean metrics (VSM Step 5)
Mapping the future state - VSM Step six
Improving the Lean-Agile value delivery cycle
Identifying VSM Tool capabilities
Evaluating the Leaders
(N.B. Please use the Look Inside option to see further chapters)
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.09.2021 |
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| Verlagsort | Birmingham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 75 x 93 mm |
| Themenwelt | Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Software Entwicklung |
| ISBN-10 | 1-80107-806-8 / 1801078068 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-80107-806-1 / 9781801078061 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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