You're reading from Accelerate DevOps with GitHub Enhance software delivery performance with GitHub Issues, Projects, Actions, and Advanced Security

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801813358

Length 540 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

GitHub

Concepts

DevOps

Author (1):

Michael Kaufmann

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Table of Contents (31) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Lean Management and Collaboration

2. Chapter 1: Metrics That Matter FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Plan, Track, and Visualize Your Work

4. Chapter 3: Teamwork and Collaborative Development

5. Chapter 4: Asynchronous Work: Collaborate from Anywhere

6. Chapter 5: The Influence of Open and Inner Source on Software Delivery Performance

7. Part 2: Engineering DevOps Practices

8. Chapter 6: Automation with GitHub Actions

9. Chapter 7: Running Your Workflows

10. Chapter 8: Managing Dependencies Using GitHub Packages

11. Chapter 9: Deploying to Any Platform

12. Chapter 10: Feature Flags and the Feature Lifecycle

13. Chapter 11: Trunk-Based Development

14. Part 3: Release with Confidence

15. Chapter 12: Shift Left Testing for Increased Quality

16. Chapter 13: Shift-Left Security and DevSecOps

17. Chapter 14: Securing Your Code

18. Chapter 15: Securing Your Deployments

19. Part 4: Software Architecture

20. Chapter 16: Loosely Coupled Architecture and Microservices

21. Chapter 17: Empower Your Teams

22. Part 5: Lean Product Management

23. Chapter 18: Lean Product Development and Lean Startup

24. Chapter 19: Experimentation and A|B Testing

25. Part 6: GitHub for your Enterprise

26. Chapter 20: GitHub – The Home for All Developers

27. Chapter 21: Migrating to GitHub

28. Chapter 22: Organizing Your Teams

29. Chapter 23: Transform Your Enterprise

30. Other Books You May Enjoy

Visualizing your work

To focus on the important work and reduce multitasking and task switching, you should visualize your work – typically in the form of a Kanban board. Kanban has its roots in Lean manufacturing but is now considered an important part of Lean software development. Kanban can help you improve the efficiency of the flow of work through your system.

The visualization will help you to do the following:

Identify bottlenecks, wait times, and hand-offs.
Prioritize work and work on the most important tasks first.
Break down work into small batch sizes.
Get things done.

Establish pull

No plan is perfect. If you have ever planned a project, you know the project plan only works with a lot of buffer time – and yet you must always adjust the plan. So, even if you only plan your work for the upcoming 2 or 3 weeks, planning will lead to wait time and context switching. The solution is to stop planning and establish a pull system; team...