Summary

In this final chapter, you have learned how to unite the work of traditional VSM initiatives with the improvements made through DevOps-based VSM initiatives and tools to improve an organization's competitive posture in our modern digital world. While many VSM tool vendors make it appear that their VSM tools provide end-to-end visibility across all value streams, the reality is they are focused on IT-oriented value streams. That's not a bad thing because DevOps pipelines are complex and expensive, and time-consuming to build on an enterprise scale.

But you've also learned that improvements in any value stream in isolation of understanding their impact on the system as a whole are forms of local optimization. That means we can spend a lot of time and money on maturing our DevOps-based software delivery capabilities and not move the needle to help the organization improve its overall value-delivery capabilities and bottom line.

We must align our improved software...