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Continuous Delivery and DevOps - A Quickstart Guide - Third Edition
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Continuous Delivery and DevOps - A Quickstart Guide - Third Edition

by Paul Swartout
October 2018
Beginner
270 pages
7h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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Value stream mapping

This lean technique derives from—as quite a few agile methodologies and tools do—manufacturing and it has been around, in one guise or another, for many years. As with any lean methodology/tool/technique, value stream mapping revolves around a value versus waste model. In essence, a value stream map is a way to breakdown a product delivery process into a series of steps and handover points; it can also be used to help calculate efficiency rates if that's useful to you. The overall map can be laid out and analyzed to see where bottlenecks or delays occur within the flow; in other words, which steps are not adding value. The key metric used within value stream mapping is the lead time (for example, how long before the original ...

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