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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 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.
Audience profile
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
Pre-requisites
An understanding and knowledge of common DevOps terminology and concepts and related work experience are recommended.
Course objectives
Delegates attending the DevOps Leader course have an 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
Course content
Module 1: DevOps and Transformational Leadership | |
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Module 2: Unlearning Behaviors | |
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Module 3: Becoming a DevOps Organization | |
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Module 4: Measure to Learn | |
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Module 5: Measure to Improve | |
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Module 6: Target Operating Models and Organizational Design | |
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Module 7: Articulating and Socializing Vision | |
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Module 8: Maintaining Energy and Momentum | |
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Associated certifications and exam
This course will prepare delegates to sit the DevOps Institute (DOI) Leader MC-DOIDOLE: Leader Examination.
Successfully passing this exam will result in the attainment of the DOI Leader Certification.
Exam Format:
40 multiple choice questions
Open book exam
Duration:
60 minutes
Pass Score:
65%
On successful completion of this course, students will receive a Torque IT letter of attendance.
DevOps Institute Overview
DevOps Institute is a global learning community that empowers the people who power IT – helping you develop both the professional and personal expertise to make the most of DevOps in both your business and your career.
Focused exclusively on all things DevOps, including Site Reliability Engineering, DevSecOps, and whatever’s next, they support professionals at all levels in bringing greater human connection to the world of IT. Providing deep practical knowledge, a welcoming professional network, cutting-edge research and respected certification programs. Their goal is to give you the confidence and know-how to transform your team, your organization, your career, and beyond.
DevOps is the future of IT.
Due to the proven success of the DevOps approach to work, DevOps oriented roles have become a sought-after resource across industries by a constantly growing number of organisations, who need DevOps-savvy people to make the cultural shift, work comfortably in a DevOps environment, and manage an array of technology and tools — referred to collectively as “toolchain” for processes including, but not limited to, coding, building, testing, packaging, releasing, configuring and monitoring.
Torque IT strives to be the DevOps Accredited Training Organisation of choice to our clients across South Africa and Africa. To ensure that we maintain our vision of being the preferred training provider in each market, Torque IT has established key specialist partnerships with acknowledged market leaders for each competence. These achievements reflect our commitment to providing our customers with quality skills development, enablement, training and certification solutions that demonstrate exceptional depth and breadth.