This three-day DevOps Implementation training course is one of the most comprehensive and practically focused programs available for IT professionals who are ready to move beyond theory and begin building a real DevOps capability in their organization. Developed by the nation's leading Agile training organization, this course gives participants full literacy across the DevOps tool landscape, a clear framework for choosing what's right for their specific context, and a concrete path toward long-term IT transformation.
Who Should Attend:
IT leaders, CIOs, CTOs, system administrators, IT operations staff, release engineers, developers, application team leads, ScrumMasters, software managers, IT project and program managers, and product owners and managers.
How You Will Benefit:
- Learn to use infrastructure automation and configuration management tools effectively
- Build a roadmap toward continuous, stable IT operations
- Identify positive feedback loops in IT work and learn how to capitalize on them
- Apply Agile concepts to infrastructure management in a practical, implementable way
- Continuously monitor capacity and operational performance
- Map and visualize IT workflow to identify and eliminate bottlenecks
- Communicate the progress and results of your DevOps efforts clearly to organizational leadership
- Understand the current state of IaaS and PaaS, with expert guidance on which cloud capabilities to prioritize
- Develop a plan for leadership participation and cultural transformation within IT
- Reposition IT from a reactive cost center to a proactive source of business value and competitive advantage
What You Will Cover:
Introduction: DevOps as More Than Just Dev and Ops
- High-performance IT organizations and what sets them apart
- The core chronic conflict at the heart of most IT organizations
- Where DevOps came from and why it matters now. Exercise: IT Lifecycles and Points of Pain
Maturing a DevOps Practice in the Enterprise
- The cultural component of DevOps success
- Proven patterns for DevOps adoption
- Eliminating waste across the delivery pipeline
- The principles of meaningful organizational involvement. Exercise: The Involvement Process
- Automation as a foundational capability. Exercise: Choosing a Value Stream
- How to select the right value stream to start with
- Value stream mapping as a diagnostic and planning tool. Exercise: Value Stream Mapping
- Planning the DevOps transformation
- Product and organizational architecture alignment
- Optimizing flow: principles and practices
- Infrastructure as code. Exercise: Agile Infrastructure
- The deployment pipeline as a delivery backbone
Automating Deployment Pipelines
- Automated testing strategy and implementation
- Continuous integration practices
- Containerization and its role in modern deployments
- Architecture decisions that reduce deployment risk. Case Study: Conway's Law and AWS
- Change review and release coordination. Case Study: Service Architecture
Amplifying Feedback in Your DevOps Journey
- The principles and practices of effective feedback loops
- Telemetry: metrics, monitoring, and alerting systems
- Using operational telemetry to anticipate and prevent problems
- Feedback mechanisms that enable safe, confident code deployment
- Hypothesis-driven development as a continuous learning tool. Exercise: Principles of Feedback
Continual Learning and Experimentation
- The principles of continuous learning and improvement
- Building and sustaining a learning culture within IT
- Fostering an innovation culture that drives DevOps maturity
Conclusion and Charting Your Course
- Full program review
- Charting your personal and organizational DevOps path forward
- Open discussion and Q&A
