SAFe? for DevOps Practitioners: Implement robust, secure, and scaled Agile solutions with the Continuous Delivery Pipeline

A step-by-step guide with real-world use cases depicting how the DevOps approach with Scaled Agile Framework helps you to develop and deliver high-quality and secured solutions with reduced risk of production failures

Key Features

• Explore the five elements of the CALMR approach with examples to avoid the product development challenges
• Use the keys of Value Stream Management to introduce systems thinking and flow for product development
• Demonstrate how Continuous Delivery Pipeline combines practices and technology to optimize your value stream

Book Description

Product development and release in today’s world faces many overlapping challenges due to the combined pressure of delivering high-quality products in shorter time-to-market cycles along with maintaining the proper operation and ensuring security in a complex high-tech environment. New ways of thinking are required to overcome these challenges from design to development, to release, and beyond. SAFe for DevOps Practitioners explains the DevOps approach based on the Scaled Agile Framework and details how value streams help to optimize these challenges using examples and use cases.

This book begins with explaining how the CALMR approach makes DevOps effective in resolving product development roadblocks. Next, you’ll learn to apply Value Stream Management for establishing a value stream that enables product development flow, measure its effectiveness through appropriate feedback loops, and find ways of improving it. Finally, you’ll look at implementing a Continuous Delivery Pipeline that optimizes the value stream through four phases during the release on demand. This book complements the latest SAFe DevOps courses and you’ll find it useful while studying for the SAFe DevOps Practitioner (SDP) certification.

By the end of this agile DevOps book, you’ll understand how to achieve continuous execution and release on demand using DevOps and the Scaled Agile Framework.

What you will learn

• Understand the important elements in the CALMR approach
• Discover how to organize around value using Value Stream Mapping
• Measure your Value Stream using Value Stream Metrics
• Improve your Value Stream with Continuous Learning
• Use Continuous Exploration to design high-quality and secured features
• Prevent rework and build in quality using Continuous Integration
• Automate delivery with Continuous Deployment
• Measure successful outcomes with Release on Demand

Who This Book Is For

The book is intended for technology professionals such as DevOps and DevSecOps practitioners, SREs, and managers who are interested in implementing DevOps practices using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) approach. Basic knowledge of DevOps and Agile software development lifecycle/ methodology or the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) will be helpful for using this book.

Table of Contents

1. Introducing SAFe and DevOps
2. Culture of Shared Responsibility
3. Automation for Efficiency and Quality
4. Lean Flow to Keep the Work Moving
5. Measuring the Process and Solution
6. Recovery from Production Failures
7. Mapping your Value Streams
8. Measuring Value Stream Performance
9. Moving to the Future with Continuous Learning
10. Continuous Exploration for Finding New Features
11. Continuous Integration of Solution Development
12. Continuous Deployment to Production
13. Release on Demand to Realize Value
14. Wrapping Up

Robert Wen is a DevOps consultant at ReleaseTEAM. He specializes in Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Value Stream Management, and Agile Development. He has over 20 years of experience in hardware and software development, working in industries such as defense, aerospace, healthcare, and telecommunications. During his career, he has been a coach as the Scrum Master for several Agile projects and a trainer for courses on the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). He holds the following standings and certifications