DevOps Leader (DOL)®
- 2 Days Course
- Language: English
Introduction:
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.
Objectives:
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 Outline:
1 – DevOps and Time
- What Is DevOps?
- Why Do DevOps
- Companies Doing DevOps
- The Magic Equation
2 – 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
3 – Becoming a DevOps organization
- Transformational Leadership
- Redesigning An Organization for DevOps
- Design Principles
- Focus
- Work
- Information
- Metrics
4 – 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
5 – Value Stream Mapping Exercise
6 – 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
7 – Managing Culture Change
- What is Culture and How Does it Impact Performance?
- Types of IT Culture
- Cultural Traits of a DevOps Organization
- How to Manage Change
8 – 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
9 – Popular DevOps Tools and Practices
- DevOps Tools Periodic Table
- Top DevOps Tool Categories
- Common and Popular Practices
10 – Building a Business Case
11 – Bringing it all Together
12 – Additional Sources of Information
13 – Exam Preparations
- Exam Requirements, Question Weighting, and Terminology List
- Sample Exam Review
Enroll in this course
£1,495.00