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Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management

Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management

By : Cecil 'Gary' Rupp
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Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management

Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management

4.4 (22)
By: Cecil 'Gary' Rupp

Overview of this book

Value 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.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Section 1:Value Delivery
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Section 2:VSM Methodology
13
Section 3:VSM Tool Vendors and Frameworks
18
Section 4:Applying VSM with DevOps

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to create a map of the current state of a value stream to evaluate work and information flow from the perspective of Lean production concepts. You also learned how value stream mapping differs from other process modeling concepts such as UML, IDEF3, and BPEL.

As part of the mapping exercise, you learned how to employ a standard set of Lean symbols as graphical icons. This strategy aims to simplify your value stream maps while also ensuring others understand what the map indicates.

Perhaps the most crucial aspect of mapping is getting valid information, which has nothing to do with constructing the map. In this chapter, you learned how to employ Gemba walks to see what is going on in work locations for yourself. In addition, you learned that the operators who perform the work are your best sources of information on how work is performed and for ideas on improving the flow of work and information.

In the next chapter, you will learn...

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