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 DevOps evolution requires new skills, tools, innovative thinking, and transformational leadership. Leaders up, down and across an 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 and has been designed to teach the key differences and emerging practices for DevOps ways of working through leadership in a fast-paced DevOps and Agile environment.
This certification positions learners to successfully complete the DevOps Leader exam.
An understanding and knowledge of common DevOps terminology and concepts and related work experience are recommended.
The learning objectives for DOL include a practical understanding of:
DevOps and time to value
Mindset and mental models
Key differences between DevOps IT and traditional IT
Target operating models and organizational design
Performance management, rewards and motivation
Preparing investment cases
Focusing on value outcomes
Ideas for organizing workflows
Empowerment and participation
Defining meaningful metrics
Value stream mapping
Driving cultural and behavioral change
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 open book, Online Proctored exam. Delegates will receive a voucher for this exam which they can sit, at their convenience, post course.
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
Join our public courses in our South Africa facilities. Private class trainings will be organized at the location of your preference, according to your schedule.