Built on the lean manufacturing principles that revolutionized productivity in manufacturing in the latter half of the 20th century, value stream management brings lean thinking to software development. Value stream management helps businesses plan, organize, and optimize their activities to create the most value for their customers. In this course, technology strategist Peter Maddison guides you through value stream management in the context of DevOps. Learn how lean, agile, DevOps, and ITSM principles contribute to value stream management. Find out how to identify value streams and how they interconnect. Explore using mapping techniques to show value streams visually, and how models and methods, like Cynefin and Theory of Constraints, can be used to help you determine how and where to improve. Plus, learn how your DevOps toolchains can be used to extract the data needed to power value stream management.

Do you need to build applications with ReactJS, the popular javascript front-end framework developed by Meta (formerly Facebook)? In this course, web developer and trainer Sandy Ludosky guides you through the process of building a single-page application efficiently, using built-in utilities and out-of-the-box tools. Learn how to set up the tools and files that you will need for this course, then step through starting a new React project. Explore tools to help you move from stateless to stateful React components, and go over how to use the Context API to manage the state of your app. Find out how to add the Firebase to your React project, then connect to a Cloud Firestore database. Dive into functionality like creating a bucket to store images, authenticating and managing users, and implementing client-side routing with React-Router V6. Learn about filtering, searching, and debugging. Plus, go over how to deploy your React app using Firebase Hosting.