Section 1:Value Delivery

Chapters 1 through 5 introduce the core concepts behind adding value, Lean-Agile practices, systems thinking, and value stream management. They apply to modern IT practices and other value streams that deliver value across the enterprise. These concepts are also foundational to the knowledge you need to learn how to apply the concepts in section 2 of this book – VSM Methodology – a Lean-oriented and proven approach to make flow improvements across an enterprise.

In the first three chapters, you will learn how to focus on adding customer-centric value across an enterprise by blending Agile, systems thinking, and Lean development practices. Then, in Chapter 4, Improving IT Value Streams with VSM, you will learn about how value stream management (VSM) is an approach to improve Lean production capabilities across all value streams, including IT. Finally, in Chapter 5, Driving Business Value through a DevOps Pipeline, you will learn what a DevOps pipeline is and why it's the best approach to deliver value in a digital economy.

Modern VSM tools support implementing Lean improvements across IT value streams and improve DevOps pipeline implementations. In that context, these chapters help explain why the effective implementation of a DevOps pipeline – as an efficient software delivery system – is the necessary “table stake” that allow an organization to compete in our modern digital economy.

This section includes the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, Delivering Customer-Centric Value
• Chapter 2, Building on a Lean-Agile Foundation
• Chapter 3, Analyzing Complex Systems Interactions
• Chapter 4, Improving IT Value Streams with VSM
• Chapter 5, Driving Business Value through a DevOps Pipeline