Summary

In this chapter, we took an extensive look at value streams. We saw that aligning our activities in terms of value streams is a key approach used in DevOps and is a major part of transforming SAFe through its implementation roadmap.

We started out by looking at the current state of our organization. We prepared the team to look at mapping our value streams and looked at how we receive work through Gemba walks. From this examination, we saw what our process is and any deficiencies in it.

We then looked at discovering and mapping our value streams. We started by mapping our operational value streams, which connect us to our customers. From there, we started looking at the solutions that our operational value streams use to bring value to our customers. With the solutions in hand, we looked at the development value streams that create and maintain those solutions. Finally, we looked at metrics to view the current state of the development Value Stream and measure our improvement...