Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management: Improve IT value stream delivery with a proven VSM methodology to compete in the digital economy

by Cecil 'Gary' Rupp, Helen Beal

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781801076548
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	08/31/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	676
File size:	16 MB
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About the Author

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

1. Delivering Customer-centric Value
2. Building on a Lean-Agile Foundation
3. Analyzing Complex Systems Interactions
4. Defining Value Stream Management (VSM) concepts
5. Driving business value through a DevOps Pipeline
6. Launching the VSM Initiative (VSM Steps 1 - 3)
7. Mapping the current state (VSM Step 4)
8. Identifying lean metrics (VSM Step 5)
9. Mapping the future state - VSM Step six
10. Improving the Lean-Agile value delivery cycle
11. Identifying VSM Tool capabilities
12. Evaluating the Leaders
13. Gauging the Future of VSM
14. Avoiding DevOps implementation pitfalls
15. Deciding on the appropriate DevOps platform strategy
16. Conclusion: Enabling Lean Business Transformations