Certified DevOps Leader (DOL) Training

The DevOps Leader course is a unique and practical experience for participants who want to take a transformational leadership approach and make an impact within their organization by implementing DevOps. Leading people through a cultural transformation requires new skills, innovative thinking, and transformational leadership. Leaders up, down and across the IT organization must align and collaborate to break down silos and evolve the organization.

The course highlights the human dynamics of cultural change and equips participants with practices, methods, and tools to engage people across the DevOps spectrum through the use of real-life scenarios and case studies. Upon completion of the course, participants will have tangible takeaways to leverage when back in the office such as understanding Value Stream Mapping.

The course was developed by leveraging key DevOps leadership sources to extract real-life best practices in leading DevOps initiatives, such as the Spotify Squad Model, and has been designed to teach the key differences and emerging practices for cultural transformation through leadership in a fast-paced DevOps and Agile environment.

This certification positions learners to successfully complete the DevOps Leader exam.

Learner Materials

Sixteen (16) hours of instructor-led training and exercise facilitation
Learner Manual (excellent post-class reference)
Participation in exercises designed to apply concepts
Comprehensive glossary
Access to additional sources of information and communities

Certification Exam

Successfully passing (65%) the 90-minute examination, consisting of 40 multiple-choice questions, leads to the candidate’s designation as a certified DevOps Leader (DOL). The certification is governed and maintained by the DevOps Institute.

The course fee includes the closed book, Online Proctored exam. Delegates will receive a voucher for this exam which they can sit, at their convenience, post course.

The DevOps Foundation certification is a prerequisite for DevOps Leader to ensure participants are aligned with the baseline DevOps definitions and principles.

The target audience for the DevOps Leader course are professionals including:

Anyone starting or leading a DevOps cultural transformation program
Anyone interested in modern IT leadership and organizational change approaches
Business Managers
Business Stakeholders
Change Agents
Consultants
DevOps Consultants
DevOps Engineers
IT Directors
IT Managers
IT Team Leaders
Lean Coaches
Practitioners
Product Owners
Scrum Masters
System Integrators
Tool Providers

The learning objectives for DOL include a practical understanding of:

DevOps and time to market
The business and IT perspectives
Key differences between DevOps IT and traditional IT
Planning and organizing
Understanding performance and culture
Measurement differences
Designing a DevOps organization
Focusing on what matters
Ideas for organizing workflows
Sharing information
Defining meaningful metrics
Value stream mapping
The Spotify Squad model
Managing culture change
Popular tools and key practices
Putting it all together

Course Introduction

Course Goals
Course Agenda

DevOps and Time

What Is DevOps?
Why Do DevOps
Companies Doing DevOps
The Magic Equation

Key Differences Between DevOps IT and Traditional IT

What Sets DevOps IT apart from Traditional IT
How DevOps IT is Organized Differently
How to Perform to a Different Standard
How to Use Different Measurements

Becoming a DevOps organization

Transformational Leadership
Redesigning An Organization for DevOps
Design Principles
Focus
Work
Information
Metrics

Value Stream Mapping

What is Value Stream Mapping?
Why Do We Need to Use this Framework?
Types of Maps
How to Create a Value Stream Map?
Types of Data to Collect
How to Handle Exceptions

Value Stream Mapping Exercise

Squad Organizational Model

Conway's Law
The Problem with Silos
Spotify’s Squad Organization Model (Structure, Roles)
Squads
Tribes
Chapters
Guilds
How to Reorganize in Order to Move to this Model

Managing Cultural Change

What is Culture and How Does it Impact Performance?
Types of IT Culture
Cultural Traits of a DevOps Organization
How to Manage Change

Culture and its Impact on Performance

Types of IT Culture
What is a DevOps Culture
How To Manage Change
The Three Phases Of Change
Types of Changes That Need to be Implemented

Popular DevOps Tools and Practices

DevOps Tools Periodic Table
Top DevOps Tool Categories
Common and Popular Practices

Building a Business Case

Bringing it all Together

Additional Sources of Information

Exam Preparations

Exam Requirements, Question Weighting, and Terminology List
Sample Exam Review

Certified DevOps Leader (DOL) Training

02 November 2021

Upcoming Trainings

Certified DevOps Leader (DOL) Training

02 November 2021

Prerequisites

Who Should Attend

What You Will Learn

Outline

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