Moving to the Future with Continuous Learning

So far, we have looked at value stream management by using the Three Ways identified in The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win. By following the First Way, establishing Flow, we looked at determining and mapping our development value streams. In the Second Way, we amplified the feedback loops in our value streams by adopting meaningful KPIs.

We’ll now look at the Third Way: continuous learning and experimentation. A critical part of DevOps is the realization that the journey of transformation has no end destination. That is, your organization will continue improving and setting further goals to create a stronger value stream. You will create more and improved future-state value streams as you discover and optimize continuously with no end in sight.

In this chapter, we will look at finding future states for your value stream by discussing the following topics:

• Adopting a continuous...