Chapter 16: Transforming Businesses with VSM and DevOps

1. To transform businesses into viable entities to compete in our digital economy.
2. False. Outside of IT, where these concepts are relatively new, manufacturing and other industries have practiced Lean and VSM for decades.
3. Toyota sought to improve quality and efficiencies in an island nation, coming out of the Great Depression and World War II, when access to resources was limited and expensive. Toyota's approach to be competitive in its global markets was to build higher-quality products with less wasting of resources, while simultaneously ensuring they built only the products customers wanted when they wanted them.
4. Agile began as a set of values and principles to support the needs of small software development teams to become more responsive and adaptable. In the process, Agile evolved to implement iterative and incremental development practices that leveraged prototyping and empiricism to quickly create working...