Getting started with mapping

For this section, let’s assume your organization and VSM team are fully primed and committed to Lean practices. You’ve also chosen your value stream and have learned the fundamentals of Lean practices. Now, it’s time to start doing the work to begin your transition to a Lean enterprise. There’s no reason to delay any further. In the immortal words of Taiichi Ohno:

Just do it!

Since this is a book on VSM driving development-operations (DevOps) capabilities, our examples follow Lean improvements across the continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) sections of an IT value stream. As you learned in Chapter 5, Driving Business Value through a DevOps Pipeline, CI/CD practices are a subset of a more extensive DevOps pipeline. Therefore, our CI/CD VSM use-case example aims to simplify the scope of analysis to focus on employing VSM methods and tools.

Don’t forget that DevOps is a critical enabler of...