Chapter 16: Transforming Businesses with VSM and DevOps
In this final chapter, you will learn how to use value stream management (VSM) and DevOps tools and related implementation initiatives to transform businesses into viable entities to compete in our digital economy. But there are two parts to making digital transformations. In part one, we need to transform our software delivery capabilities to support the organization's business transformations at large. In part two, we use our transformed software delivery capabilities to improve the way we build and deliver products across our value streams.
In other words, we must connect the software delivery improvements achieved through our DevOps-related VSM initiatives to support the needs of our broader enterprise VSM initiatives. But such connections are not automatic. From the perspective of systems thinking, improving software development capabilities apart from the intersecting value delivery needs of the business is a form...