You're reading from Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management

Product type Book

Published in Aug 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801078061

Pages 676 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Concepts

Agile

Author (1):

Cecil 'Gary' Rupp

Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1:Value Delivery

2. Chapter 1: Delivering Customer-Centric Value

3. Chapter 2: Building On a Lean-Agile Foundation

4. Chapter 3: Analyzing Complex System Interactions

5. Chapter 4: Defining Value Stream Management

6. Chapter 5: Driving Business Value through a DevOps Pipeline

7. Section 2:VSM Methodology

8. Chapter 6: Launching the VSM Initiative (VSM Steps 1-3)

9. Chapter 7: Mapping the Current State (VSM Step 4)

10. Chapter 8: Identifying Lean Metrics (VSM Step 5)

11. Chapter 9: Mapping the Future State (VSM Step 6)

12. Chapter 10: Improving the Lean-Agile Value Delivery Cycle (VSM Steps 7 and 8)

13. Section 3:VSM Tool Vendors and Frameworks

14. Chapter 11: Identifying VSM Tool Types and Capabilities

15. Chapter 12: Introducing the Leading VSM Tool Vendors

16. Chapter 13: Introducing the VSM-DevOps Practice Leaders

17. Chapter 14: Introducing the Enterprise Lean-VSM Practice Leaders

18. Section 4:Applying VSM with DevOps

19. Chapter 15: Defining the Appropriate DevOps Platform Strategy

20. Chapter 16: Transforming Businesses with VSM and DevOps

21. Assessments

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