DASA DevOps Enable and Scale

This 2-day course builds upon the fundamental concepts of DevOps. The key focus of DASA DevOps Professional: Enable and Scale 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, teambuilding, leadership, and continuous improvement, are the necessary skills for a DevOps environment. With the help of DevOps theory, pragmatic examples and exercises, and interactive group discussions, the course will help you understand how to apply the necessary skills to practice DevOps.

 

Prerequisite for the course is successful completion of the DevOps Fundamentals course. Basic knowledge of Agile, Scrum, Leam methods and ITSM principles are welcome.

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
• Testers

Module 1: Course Introduction

• Let’s Get to Know Each Other
• Course Overview
• Course Objectives
• Course Agenda
• Course Book
• Group Discussions
• Exam

Module 2: Teambuilding

• Design Teams
• Build Teams
• Governance

Module 3: DevOps Leadership

• Build Culture
• Create Purpose
• Be a Servant Leader
• Focus on Success

Module 4: Courage

• Build Courage
• Think Different

Module 5: Value - Customer Centric Action

• Different Aspects of Value
• Stakeholder Management:
• Combining Lean Startup and DevOps
• The Power of Story Mapping

Module 6: Continuous Improvement

• Build Flow
• Types of Continuous Improvement
• Continuous Improvement Tools

The price of the course includes an authorized DASA exam - DevOps Practitioner.

• Without the possibility of using materials
• The exam takes place on a computer in English
• 12 questions with a choice of several options
• 60% of points earned (36 out of 60 points)
• Length 45 min (+15 min for candidates who do not have English as their mother tongue)

Accredited training materials from DASA and supplementary materials.

• 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 behavior in a DevOps environment.
• Recognize the signals indicating impediments and/or team dysfunctions.
• Describe how to form good DevOps teams.
• List the effects of happiness and motivation on team performance.
• Assess the maturity of DevOps teams.
• 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.