Summary
This chapter briefly introduced 19 industry-leading VSM tool vendors and their software offerings. These vendors made our list because one or more IT industry analysts, such as Forrester Research, Gartner, GigaOM, and SD Times, have reviewed and designated the vendors as having relevant offerings in the VSM tool and platform category of software tools. The focus of our reviews is on each vendor's applications and strengths. You also read several use cases highlighting how some of the products were used to improve CI/CD or DevOps pipeline flows.
In the next chapter, you will learn about four leading VSM methodology providers, Disciplined Agile (DA), Scaled-Agile, the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI), and LeanFITT™. Each provides an approach to implementing VSM practices.
