The Lean-Agile Way: Unleash business results in the digital era with value stream management
In the fast-paced business and IT landscape, efficiency is key to success. To excel in delivering value to customers, reducing waste, and resolving pain points, identifying the right tools and strategies is paramount. Unlocking the secrets of Lean, Agile, Value Stream Management (VSM), and various digital enhancements, this book offers a roadmap to optimize processes, improve products, and elevate service delivery.
You’ll start with an introduction to foundational Lean and Agile practices, recognizing the significance of digital enhancements in modernizing business processes. As you progress, you’ll learn VSM techniques to identify and prioritize work and investments to provide maximum value to customers. Moreover, you’ll grasp Lean-Agile practices aimed at promoting collaboration among teams and ensuring the continuous flow of product-oriented deliveries tailored to address customer needs. Finally, you’ll gain executive-level insights on how organizations must access timely information for decision-making and foster a culture of continuous business transformation.
Armed with this knowledge and a robust toolkit, you’ll be empowered to drive meaningful change, optimize resources, and stay ahead in the rapidly evolving marketplace.
Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management
Value Stream Management (VSM) opens the door to maximizing the ROI on your DevOps pipeline investments by improving flows and eliminating waste. Most importantly, VSM and DevOps together deliver value stream improvements across enterprises for a competitive advantage in our digital world. Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management provides a comprehensive review and analysis of industry-proven VSM methods and tools to integrate, streamline, and orchestrate activities within a DevOps-oriented value stream.
You’ll start with an introduction to the concepts of delivering value and understand how VSM methods and tools support improved value delivery from a Lean production perspective. Next, the book covers the complexities of implementing modern CI/CD and DevOps pipelines and then guides you through an eight-step VSM methodology with the help of a use case showing an Agile team’s efforts to install a CI/CD pipeline.
This book is free from marketing hype, or vendor bias yet introduces the leading VSM tool vendors and the customer use cases that showcase their products’ strengths. As you advance through the book, you’ll learn four approaches to implementing a DevOps pipeline and get guidance on choosing the best fit.
Finally, you’ll learn how to apply VSM practices to identify improvement opportunities across all development and operational value streams to discover areas where digital innovations can help drive competitive advantage.
Scaling Scrum Across Modern Enterprises
Scaling Scrum Across Modern Enterprises describes how modern Scrum and Lean-Agile practices help integrate and synchronize multiple teams’ efforts to collaborate on large-scale product development and delivery activities. Rather than focus on one particular strategy, the book takes an agnostic approach to introduce and compare the leading Scrum and Lean-Agile scaling strategies in a single reference source.
Agile practices have their roots in the software industry but are similarly useful across all business types, government agencies, and non-profits. Moreover, we live in a digital era where computing systems and software enhance business processes and product functionality across all industries. Therefore, modern Scrum and Lean-Agile practices help improve agility across all value creation activities, while simultaneously supporting business agility on an enterprise scale.
Organizations that can rapidly evaluate alternatives and competitively respond to changes, and do so from a customer-centric and value-added perspective, have a distinct competitive advantage. This book is a must-read for all organizations that seek a competitive edge on all fronts of their business.