Description
Description
The DevOps Leader course offers a distinctive and hands-on learning experience designed for participants aiming to implement DevOps and drive transformational leadership within their organizations. Leading people through a DevOps evolution demands new skills, innovative thinking, and transformational leadership. It requires alignment and collaboration across all levels of the organization to break down silos and foster organizational evolution.
This course emphasizes the human dynamics of cultural change and equips participants with practices, methods, and tools to engage stakeholders across the DevOps spectrum. Real-life scenarios and case studies are used to illustrate concepts effectively. Upon completing the course, participants will gain practical insights, such as understanding Value Stream Mapping, which they can apply immediately in their work environments.
Developed by drawing from key DevOps leadership sources, this course distills real-life best practices for leading DevOps initiatives. It is designed to teach essential differences and emerging practices for DevOps ways of working through effective leadership in a dynamic DevOps and Agile environment.
Completion of this certification course prepares learners to successfully undertake the DevOps Leader exam.
Training Objectives
- Understand differences between DevOps IT and Traditional IT.
- Identify ideas for organising workflows.
- Focus on value outcomes.
- Drive cultural and behavioral change.
Course Outline
- Module 1: DevOps and Transformational Leadership<br />
- Current Definitions of DevOps<br />
- Benefits of DevOps<br />
- Transformational Leadership<
- Module 2: Unlearning Behaviours<br />
- Psychological Safety and Neuroscience<br />
- Mindset, Mental Models and Cognitive Bias<br />
- Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) and DevOps<
- Module 3: Becoming a DevOps Organisation<br />
- How DevOps Differs<br />
- DevOps Kaizen<br />
- Building Safety In<
- Module 4: Measure to Learn<br />
- Avoiding Measure to Target<br />
- Creating a Current Value Stream Map<
- Module 5: Measure to Improve<br />
- The Improvement Kata and Experiments<br />
- Creating a Future Value Stream Map<
- Module 6: Target Operating Models and Organisational Design<br />
- Conway's Law<br />
- Desired Outcomes of DevOps<br />
- DevOps TOM Design Principles<
- Module 7: Articulating and Socialising Vision<br />
- Organisational Change in Large Enterprises<br />
- Empowering People<br />
- Broadcasting Outside of Your Organisation<
- Module 8: Maintaining Energy and Momentum<br />
- The DevOps Business Case<br />
- Culture and Climate<br />
- A High-Trust Culture<br />
- Kolb’s Learning Styles



