Part 2:Implement – Moving Toward Value Streams
In the book The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping your Business Win by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford, we are introduced to the Three Ways. These ways outline how we can shift toward DevOps and CALMR.
The First Way emphasizes working toward a flow. To do this, we will organize and structure along value streams to visualize the steps and people that perform those steps. Working as a value stream allows us to optimize the flow. We will see how to establish our value streams in Chapter 7.
After the First Way, we come to the Second Way, which emphasizes the amplification of feedback loops. To find our feedback, we look at the metrics that can be used to evaluate our value streams in Chapter 8.
Finally, we come to the Third Way. The Third Way emphasizes moving to continuous experimentation and learning. Chapter 9 will discuss what makes an organization that is continuously learning and methods for continuous learning to improve your value streams.
This part strives to set up an easy way to achieve Value Stream Management, a key practice in DevOps.
This part of the book comprises the following chapters: