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DevOps Practitioner
VIRTUAL TRAINING
Catering to the demands of busy professionals, our virtual training programs are as effective as face-to-face learning.
CORPORATE TRAINING
Our Corporate training provides you the opportunity to interact with instructors and benefit from face-to-face instruction.
TRAINING HIGHLIGHTS
High quality training from Certified & Industry Experts
Earn 16 PDUs
Course Completion Certificates
Extensive documentation provided
Reimbursement guaranteed if the training is not satisfied
Our approach is both practical and inspirational. Our training is carefully designed and tested to develop the key skills and confidence needed while being highly participatory and fun
This 2-day course builds upon the DevOps fundamentals. The key focus of the DevOps Practitioner is on the four skill areas that have been defined by DASA and are required for successful DevOps results. The course helps you know why the four skills: courage, team building, leadership, and continuous improvement, are the necessary skills for a DevOps environment.
DevOps Practitioner 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 Outline:
Course Introduction
- ● Let’s Get to Know Each Other
- ● Course Overview
- ● Course Objectives
- ● Course Agenda
- ● Course Book
- ● Group Discussions
- ● Exam
Team Building
- ● Design Teams:
- – Introduction to a DevOps Team
- – Characteristics of a DevOps Team
- – Boundaries for a DevOps Team
- ● Build Teams:
- – Creating High Performance Teams
- – Feedback: Giving and Taking
- – Shared Responsibility and Accountability
- ● Governance:
- – Governance on Three Levels
- – Governance Within a Team
- – Governance Between Teams
- – Governance Between Organizations
- – Scaling
- – External Suppliers
DevOps Leadership
- ● Build Culture:
- – Create the Right Environment
- – Change the Habitual Behavior
- – Fail Fast to Improve
- – Maintain the Agile Soil
- ● Create Purpose:
- – Know the Importance of Storytelling
- – Define the Purpose of Having a Purpose
- – Relate Alignment with Autonomy
- ● Be a Servant Leader:
- – Give Control to the Team
- – Inspire and Support the Team
- – Make Your Own Leadership Manifesto
- ● Focus on Success:
- – Customer Value and Team Success
- – Measure and Steer Value
Courage
- ● Build Courage:
- – Importance of Courage
- – Out of Your Comfort Zone
- – Resilience
- – Courage in Relationship with Leadership and Feedback
- – Courage at the Team Level
- – Dealing with Failure
- ● Think Different:
- – Think Different on a Day-to-day Basis
- – During Standups
- – Standup from Hell
- – 10th Man Rule
- – Think Different in an Organized Way
- – Open Allocation Time
- – Guilds
Value – Customer Centric Action
- ● Different Aspects of Value:
- – Customer Value
- – The Different ‘Voices’
- ● Stakeholder Management:
- – Know Your Stakeholders
- – Categorize the Stakeholders
- ● Combining Lean Startup and DevOps:
- – The Lean Startup Process
- – The Lean Startup Versus Chaos
- – Combining the Lean Startup and DevOps
- ● The Power of Story Mapping:
- – Product/Service Development Approaches
- – Need for Story Mapping
- – Creating Story Maps
Continuous Improvement
- ● Build Flow:
- – Build Optimal Flow
- – Multitasking and One Piece Flow
- – Little’s Law and Optimization of Process Lead Time
- – Valualize Flow
- – Flow and Resource Utilization
- ● Types of Continuous Improvement:
- – Kaizen
- – Radical Change
- ● Continuous Improvement Tools:
- – Kaizen Event
- – Value Stream Mapping
- – Visual Management
- – Retrospective
- – Daily Standup
- – Five Times ‘Why’
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, team building, 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 behaviour 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.
● Analyse value streams to improve throughput and flow.
●Facilitate the tools for continuous improvement: structured problem-solving workshops, Story Mapping sessions, and retrospectives.
Exam Information
Delivery: Online or Paper-based
Format: Closed Book (Participants can bring scratch paper)
Proctoring: Web proctored/In-class proctored
Duration: 45 minutes (Additional 15 minutes for non-native English speaker)
# of Questions: 12 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
Pass Grade: 60% (36 points out of 60 to be earned)
Audience:
Individuals involved in IT development, IT operations, or IT Service Management
Individuals whose role are affected by DevOps and continuous delivery, such as:
● DevOps Engineers
● Product Owners
● Integration Specialists
● Operations Managers
● Incident and Change Managers
● System Administrators
● Network Administrators
● Business Managers
● Automation Architects
● Enterprise Architects
What Does Mangates provide me on the day of the course?
We provide Course Materials, Course Completion Certificate and Refreshements
What experience does Instructor has?
All our Instructors are Certified & Industry Experts and they have years of experience in the same filed.
