Practices for conducting value stream traceability in DevOps: A systematic literature mapping

Abstract

DevOps is an approach that describes a set of practices and cultural values whose main objective is to integrate different teams within an organization at the development and operations level. This approach allows for improving the effectiveness of communication, collaboration, value delivery in software development, and organizational culture. Currently, organizations from different economic sectors find themselves in need of developing software and implementing DevOps practices to improve delivery frequency without sacrificing the quality and stability of the solution. Among the main issues when implementing DevOps is how to perform traceability of added value, henceforth, Value Stream. The Value Stream is presented as a sequence of activities responsible for producing and delivering value to customers and users through a product or service. Given its importance for organizations, this work addresses the most common challenges in organizations to perform Value Stream traceability, the proposals presented in the current literature for this process, and the unexplored research challenges found in the literature on the Value Stream. To do this, a systematic literature mapping is developed, resulting in the identification of various practices. From these, a set of challenges and practices that various organizations could implement to perform DevOps process traceability with a focus on the Value Stream are consolidated and presented.