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Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801078061
Length 676 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Cecil 'Gary' Rupp Cecil 'Gary' Rupp
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

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

Chapter 10: Improving the Lean-Agile Value Delivery Cycle (VSM Steps 7 and 8)

In the previous chapters, you learned how to conduct a VSM initiative, map the current state, and then map three phases of desired future states. At this point, the VSM team is ready to begin the improvement activities. VSM implements the Lean concepts of Kaizen to make continuous improvements. The VSM team now knows how to apply the VSM tools to make Lean improvements in their IT value streams and other organizational value streams.

Lean improvements are distinctively different from Agile-based improvements in terms of scope of work, timeframes, costs, and authorities. In this chapter, you will learn that Lean improvements tend to address issues at a strategic level that require portfolio investments and executive-level decision making, at least initially. In contrast, Agile-based improvements tend to operate at a tactical level and within the Agile team's scope, and within shorter timeframes measured...

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