Chapter 3
Identifying Waste
IN THIS CHAPTER
Digging into the lean manufacturing foundation of DevOps
Removing the seven types of waste
Getting to market faster than your competition
After you have a clear idea of what your DevOps culture will look like, it’s time to review your current processes and look to the future for improvement. DevOps has three focuses: people, process, and technology. Process is second only to culture in a DevOps transformation.
Process is the area in which you’ll see the most quantitative improvement in the speed of your organization’s software delivery. But this chapter doesn’t focus on how you improve your processes. (I discuss making process improvements to every phase of your software delivery life cycle in Part 2 of this book.) For now, think about your team’s software development processes holistically. Step back and see it as an ecosystem of people implementing processes with technology.
Waste is any activity that does not directly impact the experience of the customer. If an action, activity, or process doesn’t add value to your customers, it’s wasteful. Increasing your team’s velocity with DevOps requires you ...
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