Summary
In this chapter, you were introduced to the two organizations that have played an instrumental role in the development of Lean practices and VSM. We began with an introduction to LEI. LEI conducts research, teaches educational workshops, publishes books and e-books, runs conferences, and shares practical information about lean thinking and practice.
You were also introduced to LeanFITT. The partners who founded LeanFITT have contributed to more than 50 books on Lean practices. They also wrote some of the earliest books on VSM and were very involved in the early development of VSM practices and methodologies.
We are now ready to move on to Section 3 of this book, which describes the complexities and approaches to installing modern DevOps pipelines and toolchains. The first chapter, Chapter 15, Defining the Appropriate DevOps Platform Strategy, addresses two critical issues. The first issue is avoiding DevOps implementation pitfalls that all organizations face when attempting...
