Risks arise as a result of new construction and maintenance of information systems through Agile teams. Within the concept of Continuous SLA, these risks are analysed from different perspectives and provided with countermeasures by the DevOps team, also known as SLA controls. By making these SLA controls measurable, they become suitable planning objects that can be placed on the product backlog. This book is a publication in the continuous everything series. The content consists of the discussion of techniques to identify and manage risks such as the use of Lean indicators, value stream mapping and information, application and technical architecture building blocks. In addition to the core value streams, the enable value streams such as services management, information security and development value streams are also examined for risks that directly or indirectly harm the outcome. The recognized SLA controls are anchored in the Agile way of working by deepening the collaboration between, among others, the product owner and service level manager. This integrated approach to SLA controls makes it possible to get grip on quality in Agile projects.

Continuous Design is an approach that aims to allow DevOps teams to briefly think in advance about the contours of the information system to be realized and to allow the design to grow during the Agile project (emerging design). This prevents interface risks and guarantees essential knowledge transfer to support management an compliance with legislation and regulations. Elements that guarantee the continuity of an organization. This book is a publication in the Continuous Everything series. The content consists of the Continuous Design Pyramid model in which the following design views are defined: business, solution, design, requirements, test and code view. The Continuous Design encompasses the entire lifecycle of the information system. The first three views are completed based on modern design techniques such as value stream mapping and use cases. However, the emphasis of the effective application of a Continuous Design lies in the realization of the information system, namely by integrating the design in the Behavior Driven Development and Test Drive Development as well as in Continuous Documentation. With this Agile approach to design, you have a powerful tool al your disposal to get a grip on an Agile development project.

Continuous Monitoring is an approach to get a grip on both core value streams (business processes) and enable value streams that support these core value streams. Continuous Monitoring differs from classical monitoring by its focus on outcome improvement and the holistic scope with which value streams are measured, i.e., the entire CI/CD secure pipeline for all three perspectives of PPT: People, Process and Technology. The approach includes People, Process and Technology, which makes it possible to identify and eliminate or mitigate the bottlenecks in your value streams. This book is a publication in the Continuous Everything series. The content consists of a discussion of the monitor functions defined in the continuous monitoring layer model. This layer model classifies the monitor tools available on the market. Each monitor archetype is defined in this book in terms of definition, objective, measurement attributes, requirements, examples, and best practices. This book also indicates how to set up Continuous Monitoring in your organisation based on the change manager paradigm and architecture principles and models. With this integral agile approach to monitoring, you have a powerful tool at your disposal to set up the controls for the control of your value streams.

Continuous Testing is an approach that aims to provide rapid feedback in the software development process by defining the 'what' and 'how' questions as test cases before starting to build the solution. As a result, the concepts of requirements, test cases and acceptance criteria are integrated in one approach. The term 'continuous' refers to the application of test management in all phases of the deployment pipeline, from requirements to production. The term 'continuous' also includes the aspects People, Process and Technology. This makes test management holistic. This book is a publication in the Continuous Everything series. This book is a publication in the Continuous Everything series. The content consists of treating Continuous Testing based on a definition, business case, architecture, design, and best practices. Concepts discussed are: the change paradigm, the Ideal Test Pyramid, test metadata, Behaviour Driven Development, Test Driven Development, test policies, test techniques, test tools and the role of unit test cases in Continuous Testing. In this way you are quickly up-to-date in the field of DevOps developments and in the field of Continuous Testing.

Knowledge sharing is my passion. In the last decade I have published a number of books and articles in which I shared my experiences with you. Feel free to use these best practices at your own work. The publications are no replacement for the commonly used frameworks like ITIL, BiSL and ASL. They are add-ons to subjects that are not addressed in these frameworks or not explained well enough to be of help at your work. In this publication, the bold hyperlinks refer to the training- and masterclasses that I teach via training institutes like ITMG, and in which the related book is offered to you. If you would like to order an book please do so via the website www.leonon.nl. When clicking on a book icon in the book chapters or appendix B and C you will be directed to the relevant page. I hope you enjoy reading my book and articles and wish you good luck, especially if you are applying the best practices within your organisation. If you have questions or comments, please do not hesitate to reach out to me. A lot of time has been spent in making this book as complete and consistent as possible. Should you find any shortcomings, I would ask you please let me know ensuring that these items shall be processed with the next edition of this book. Bart de Best, Zoetermeer