You're reading from Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management Improve IT value stream delivery with a proven VSM methodology to compete in the digital economy

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801078061

Length 676 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Scrum

Concepts

Agile

Author (1):

Cecil 'Gary' Rupp

View More author details

Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1:Value Delivery

2. Chapter 1: Delivering Customer-Centric Value FREE CHAPTER

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

22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Enabling CI/CD and DevOps pipeline flows

This book makes a clear distinction between CI/CD and DevOps toolchains and pipelines:

A toolchain is a combination of tools that collectively perform a specific set of IT tasks or functions. This term may or may not imply an integration or automation strategy and is somewhat vague.
DevOps pipelines and CI/CD pipelines include a series of integrated tools to streamline and automate IT tasks or functions across an IT value stream. Pipelines are more equivalent to the Lean and VSM concepts presented later in this book. For now, let's understand CI/CD and DevOps pipelines as improving the speed and reliability of software value delivery.

The term toolchain specifies a scope of tools that support IT value stream activities. Again, by itself, the term toolchain does not necessarily imply an integration or automation strategy. Although not ideal, developers can manually set up the following tool in line with the previous tools...