Overview
DASA DevOps Professional: Enable and Scale is designed to provide the core education necessary to put DevOps into practice. With the help of DevOps theory, pragmatic examples and exercises, and interactive group discussions and role plays, the course will help you understand how to apply the necessary skills to practice DevOps.
Course Information
Professionals who understand the value of courage, team building, leadership, and continuous improvement, are one important step closer to tapping into the full benefits of DevOps. Indeed, without a thorough understanding of these four skill areas defined by DASA, forming good DevOps teams and implementing change to great effect may very well remain a mirage.
This 2-day course will help you understand how to apply the necessary skills to practice DevOps with the help of theory, pragmatic examples, exercises, interactive group discussions, and role-plays. By the end of this course, you will not only be able to capitalize on the benefits of becoming proficient in the four skill areas but also be able to apply this knowledge for the benefit of your teams and organizations.
Target Audience
If your current position involves DevOps and/or Continuous Delivery, this may be particularly interesting to you. The DASA DevOps Professional Enable & Scale certification adds value, however, to any individual involved in IT development, operations, or service management. It is recommended that the participants hold a DASA DevOps Fundamentals certification before taking the DASA DevOps Professional: Enable and Scale exam. Its target audience includes but is not limited to:
- Automation Architects
- Business Managers
- DevOps Engineers
- Enterprise Architects
- Incident and Change Managers
- Integration Specialists
- Network Administrators
- Operations Managers
- Product Owners
- System Administrators
Learning Objectives
At the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Explain the importance of DevOps culture and the aspects that can influence it.
- Explain why courage, teambuilding, leadership, and continuous improvement are required in a DevOps environment.
- Explain why courage is essential to enable trust, honesty, and experimentation.
- Identify and evaluate different types of behavior in a DevOps environment.
- Recognize the signals indicating impediments and/or team dysfunctions.
- Describe how to form good DevOps teams and assess their maturity.
- List the effects of happiness and motivation on team performance.
- Identify how leaders encourage feedback and transparency.
- Discuss the factors that leaders can influence to build trust.
- Explain how and why leaders promote a “Safe to fail” environment.
- Analyze value streams to improve throughput and flow.
- Facilitate the tools for continuous improvement: structured problem-solving workshops, Story Mapping sessions, and retrospectives.
Requirements
- Required: DASA DevOps Professional: Enable and Scale Certificate
- Recommended: Basic familiarity with Agile, Scrum, Lean, and ITSM principles
Course Agenda
Module 0: Course Introduction
- Let’s Get to Know Each Other
- Course Overview
- Course Objectives
- Course Agenda
- Course Book
- Activities/Exercises
- Exams
- Questions and Answers
- Module Summary
Module 1: Context of the Product Owner
- Module Objectives
- Module Topics
- Product Owner
- Agile Introduction
- Scrum Overview
- Relationship Between Agile, Lean, and DevOps
- Module Summary
- Module End Questions
Module 2: The Role of the Product Owner
- Module Objectives
- Module Topics
- Role of the Product Owner
- Competencies of the Product Owner
- Product Owner in Practice
- Module Summary
- Module End Questions
Module 3: Agile Planning and Estimation
- Module Objectives
- Overview of the Product Owner’s Work
- Module Topics
- Value of the Product
- Envisioning the Product
- Decomposing the Vision
- Module Summary
- Module End Questions
Module 4: Maximizing Value
- Module Objectives
- Overview of the Product Owner’s Work
- Module Topics
- Engaging Stakeholders
- Influencing Stakeholders
- Module Summary
- Module End Questions
Module 5: Translating Value
- Module Objectives
- Overview of the Product Owner’s Work
- Module Topics
- Backlog
- Estimating Work
- Module Summary
- Module End Questions
Module 6: Delivering Value
- Module Objectives
- Overview of the Product Owner’s Work
- Module Topics
- Monitoring Progress
- Scaling Delivery
- Challenging Situations for a Product Owner
- Module Summary
Module End Questions