DevOps has been a buzzword for a while now in the tech industry, with many organizations joining the bandwagon and working towards embracing the DevOps practices. Wiki describes Devops as "a practice that emphasizes the collaboration and communication of the IT professionals across the value chain while automating the process of software delivery and infrastructure changes. The aim is to deliver the software quickly and reliably."
However, in an enterprise scenario with the complexity involved, the journey to implement DevOps comprehensively is evolutionary. Hence, it is only sensible to drive along an incremental adoption path. Each increment has to provide the most benefits through the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) delivered towards the DevOps journey.
In this context, this article attempts to explain the initial steps towards the larger DevOps journey and helps to get a head start.
The approach at high-level consists of four major steps:
Value stream mapping – Mapping the existing process workflows
Future state value stream mapping – Identify the immediate goals and visualize the optimized value stream map
Execution – Incremental approach towards the implementation
Retrospection – Review and learn
Ok, let’s get started!
Value Stream Mapping
Value stream mapping is a lean improvement strategy that maps the processes and information flows of a product from source to delivery. For a software delivery, it is the pre-defined path an idea takes to transform into a
As we move forward in our transformation, there is still much change ahead and we are faced with the continuing challenge of balancing our ongoing workload, migrating data centers, and the organizational changes required to to address our evolving service delivery model.
Helgi Valur Fredriksson, Hamid Jafari (2010-05-21). To improvement the target company’s manufacturing process by applying lean principles, including using and analyzing the internal value stream mapping. As more and more companies have paid attention to implement lean thinking in their manufacturing process, the value stream mapping played an important role for many companies to make a transition from their traditional production systems to lean systems. The content and resources of this master thesis come from an American furniture company named KAMA which mainly produces office furniture with different components. Although there are various types of products, the authors merely focus on the office chair products. This research is an attempt
Value Stream Map can be drown for three different levels: An extended level map as the view of the values stream at 60,000 feet, the facility level map at 30,000 feet and the process level map at 10,000 feet.
A Value Stream Map is then created to identify process inefficiencies and value creating improvement opportunities
Fawaz A.A, Jayant, R. (2007). “Analyzing the benefits of lean manufacturing and value stream mapping via simulation: A process sector case study”, International Journal of Producti
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1. Evaluate how to communicate and collaborate effectively using a variety of modalities including digital-age tools that ensure the learner’s professional growth.
The mapping of business processes, including related activity to determine what the organization does business; the frog who is responsible for the business process should be tailored to track the success of the Process. Businesses can set
To realize the promise of Big Software, companies need an entire new way of thinking. Where applications were once simple to manage and deploy with a couple of solutions across a couple of machines; companies must now roll out many applications, components, and integration points spread across tens of thousands of on-premise and hosted physical and virtual machines. Enterprises are learning they cannot address the needs of their businesses and customers unless they have a sense of the capabilities they must build, manage, and deliver. In other words, companies must have the right mix of products, services, and tools to match the requirements of the business. However, many IT departments are undertaking these challenges with the approaches, processes, and tools developed over a decade ago.
To realize the promise of Big Software, companies need an entirely new way of thinking. Where applications were once simple to manage and deploy with a couple of solutions across a couple of machines; companies must now roll out many applications, components, and integration points spread across tens of thousands of on-premise and hosted physical and virtual machines. Enterprises are learning they cannot address the needs of their businesses and customers unless they have a sense of the capabilities they must build, manage, and deliver. In other words, companies must have the right mix of products, services, and tools to match the requirements of the business. However, many IT departments are undertaking these challenges with the approaches, processes, and tools developed over a decade ago.
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