Publications by Cecil “Gary” Rupp
Essential Lean-Agile
Publications
Practical guides to transformation and value stream management from industry leaders — written for executives, practitioners, and teams driving change.
The ARC Grid
A fast-paced business thriller where systems thinking, leadership, and America's electric grid collide.
The ARC Grid explores how modern organizations navigate the intersection of energy infrastructure, economic disruption, and executive decision-making. Set against the backdrop of a nation racing to rebuild its power grid, the story follows a team of leaders applying systems thinking and Lean-Agile principles under extraordinary pressure.
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Who This Book Is For
The Lean-Agile Way
1st Edition · Kindle Edition
Discover how mastering Lean, Agile, and VSM principles can enhance product delivery performance, mitigate risk, and foster business agility.
Key Features
- Apply Lean practices to eliminate waste and delays, ensuring value for your customers
- Master Agile practices to address problems and create value-centric products and services
- Explore VSM methods and tools to identify and prioritize improvement opportunities
- Purchase of print or Kindle includes a free PDF eBook
About This Book
Authored by industry experts — including a Lean-Agile consultant with over three decades of executive experience, a SAFe® Fellow, a value stream consultant, and the creator of FLEX — this book offers proven strategies to streamline processes, enhance products, and improve service delivery.
You'll start with foundational Lean and Agile practices, then master VSM techniques to identify and prioritize work for maximum customer value, and finish with executive-level insights on driving a culture of continuous business transformation.
What You Will Learn
- Integrate Lean, Agile, and VSM to accelerate value flow, enhance efficiency, and drive improvements
- Drive product-oriented transformations with business increments, Lean-Agile teams, and IT alignment
- Leverage the VSM implementation roadmap to drive digital value stream enhancements
- Investigate advanced VSM tools, AI insights, and VSMP selection criteria
- Explore Lean-Agile/VSM success stories to gain practical implementation insights
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Who This Book Is For
Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management
1st Edition · Kindle Edition
A practical guide to VSM methodology that maximizes your DevOps pipeline investments by improving flows and eliminating waste.
Key Features
- Address DevOps implementation issues including culture, toolchain costs, and product team alignment
- Implement proven VSM methodology to improve IT value stream flows
- Leverage VSM platforms to view, analyze, and improve end-to-end value delivery
About This Book
Value Stream Management opens the door to maximizing DevOps pipeline investments by improving flows and eliminating waste. VSM and DevOps together deliver value stream improvements across enterprises for competitive advantage in the digital world.
Free from marketing hype or vendor bias, this book presents current VSM tool vendors and customer use cases. It guides you through an eight-step VSM methodology using a real-world Agile team CI/CD pipeline use case, and covers four approaches to implementing a DevOps pipeline.
What You Will Learn
- Integrate Agile, systems thinking, and Lean development to deliver customer-centric value
- Choose the most appropriate value stream for initial and follow-on VSM projects
- Establish better flows with integrated, automated, and orchestrated DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
- Apply a proven eight-step VSM methodology to drive Lean IT value stream improvements
- Discover the key strengths of modern VSM tools and their customer use case scenarios
Who This Book Is For
Scaling Scrum Across Modern Enterprises
Implement Scrum and Lean-Agile techniques across complex products, portfolios, and programs in large organizations.
Key Features
- Learn how to be Agile at scale by implementing industry best practices
- Understand how Lean-Agile practices are incorporated in Disciplined Agile and SAFe
- Customize Scrum and Lean-Agile practices to support portfolio and large product development needs
About This Book
Scaled Scrum and Lean-Agile practices provide essential strategies to address large and complex product development challenges not addressed in traditional Scrum. Free of marketing hype or vendor bias, this handbook provides a comprehensive review of industry-proven scaling strategies including SoS, Scrum@Scale, Nexus, LeSS, Disciplined Agile, and SAFe.
You'll learn how to support multiple teams developing large products, manage cross-team integration and dependency issues, and align product portfolio investments with corporate strategies.
What You Will Learn
- Understand the limitations of traditional Scrum practices and when to scale
- Explore roles and responsibilities in a scaled Scrum and Lean-Agile environment
- Apply systems thinking to evaluate impacts of changes across complex development systems
- Scale Scrum practices at both program and portfolio levels of management
- Understand how DevOps, test automation, and CI/CD help in scaling Scrum practices
Who This Book Is For