DevOps for Leaders Training

This two-day DevOps workshop is loaded with practical real-world information. From the foremost agile development training company, comes a course to move the dial on your organizations’ DevOps journey. You will leave this course loaded with knowledge on the available people, processes, culture, and tools for DevOps, ready to select what's right for your company and to roadmap the journey for your organization.  The class provides two DevOps implementation case studies, a 30-60-90 roadmap to implementing DevOps in your organization, DevOps organizational maturity assessment, as well as, patterns and best practices to enable you to confidently lead a DevOps implementation.  This class demystifies the fundamental shift from focusing only on the tools or scripting to using DevOps for measurably higher performance from organizations of all sizes for solving business problems in a timely manner.

As part of DevOps management, you should be aware of how to confidently design a DevOps roadmap for your organization, understand the various key components, and communicate your DevOps progress. DevOps Management also requires you to understand that automation is a key to success and how to create a culture that supports technology-enabled business.

This Training course for a DevOps Manager and leader continue to be in high demand. The topics covered in the course are:

• DevOps journey
• Cultural alignment
• Continuous Integration & Delivery
• Continuous Integration Tools
• Measurement
• Agile
• Configuration Management
• Continuous Code Quality
• Best Practices
• DevOps Action Plan

CHAPTER 1. Devops Journey

• Why DevOps?
• What is DevOps?
• History behind DevOps
• Cross functional teams
• Key components of successful DevOps
• DevOps vocabulary
• DevOps goals
• Driving business outcomes with DevOps
• Summary

CHAPTER 2. Cultural Alignment & Workforce Strategy

• Leading the charge to DevOps
• Core values and mission
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Value stream mapping
• Behavioral patterns
• Culture assessment
• Summary

CHAPTER 3. Continuous Integration & Delivery.

• What does continuous delivery mean?
• What is continuous integration?
• Project methodologies
• Measuring your organization maturity
• Tool selection
• IT organization structure
• Business continuity
• Supportability and sustainability
• Summary

Case Study 1: Global Financial Services

CHAPTER 4. CI Tools

• Challenges solved by CI tools

CHAPTER 6. Measurement

• What to measure?
• How to measure?
• Why to measure?
• Choosing the right metrics
• What are your key performance indicators?
• Actionable insight
• Software quality
• Top 5 metrics
• Summary

CHAPTER 8. Agile

• History of Agile
• Managing sprints
• Maintaining the backlog
• Working with story points
• Distributed agile
• Kaizen
• Kanban
• Summary

CHAPTER 10. Configuration Management

• Why is configuration management key to DevOps success?
• What is configuration management
• Terminology
• Automation tool comparison
• Configuration management tools
• Setting up the environment
• Deployment
• Cloud integration

CHAPTER 11. Continuous Code Quality

• What is continuous code quality?
• Continuous Testing
• Seven Axes of Quality
• Potential Bugs
• Test-Driven Development
• Behavior-Driven Development
• What is Sonar Qube
• SonarQube  - Benefits
• Summary

Case study 3. Federated Global Products

CHAPTER 13. Best Practices

• Who are the folks using the various solutions?
• DevOps implementation checklist
• Gap assessment survey
• Best practices
• Patterns
• Anti-patterns
• Summary

CHAPTER 14. DevOps Action Plan

Appendix A. Cloud Computing & Virtualization

• What defines a cloud?
• Elasticity
• History of cloud
• Benefits of cloud
• Public, Private, or Hybrid?
• Governance in cloud
• Cloud deployment
• Introduction to AWS
• Introduction to Azure
• Introduction to SoftLayer
• Why virtualization?
• Virtual machines
• Virtualization with Citrix
• Summary