The DevOps Leader two-day course supports participants who want to take a transformational leadership approach within their organisation by implementing DevOps.
2 day course
Supporting material
Private
Private
A private training session for your team. Groups can be of any size, at a location of your choice including our training centres.
Leading people through a DevOps evolution requires new skills, tools, innovative thinking, and transformational leadership. Leaders across an organisation must align and collaborate to break down silos and evolve the organisation.
This course highlights 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 such as understanding Value Stream Mapping.
This course sources 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.
It also positions learners to successfully complete the DevOps Leader exam.
Our DevOps Leader (DOL)® course available as a private training session and will be run over two consecutive days. It can be delivered at a location of your choice or via Virtual Classroom.
Course overview
Who should attend:
Anyone starting or leading a DevOps cultural transformation program or anyone interested in modern IT leadership and organisational change approaches. Including Business Managers, Change Agents, DevOps Consultants, DevOps Engineers, IT Directors, IT Managers, Lean Coaches, Product Owners and Scrum Masters.
Walk away with the ability to:
The learning objectives for DOL include a practical understanding of:
DevOps and time to value
Mindset and mental models
Key differences between DevOps IT and traditional IT
Target operating models and organisational design
Performance management, rewards and motivation
Preparing investment cases
Focusing on value outcomes
Ideas for organising workflows
Empowerment and participation
Defining meaningful metrics
Value stream mapping
Prerequisites
Participants should have baseline knowledge and understanding of common DevOps definitions and principles.
Course agenda
Module 1: DevOps and Transformational Leadership
Current Definitions of DevOps
Benefits of DevOps
Transformational Leadership
Module 2: Unlearning Behaviours
Psychological Safety and Neuroscience
Mindset, Mental Models and Cognitive Bias
Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) and DevOps
Module 3: Becoming a DevOps Organisation
How DevOps Differs
DevOps Kaizen
Building Safety In
Module 4: Measure to Learn
Avoiding Measure to Target
Creating a Current Value Stream Map
Module 5: Measure to Improve
The Improvement Kata and Experiments
Creating a Future Value Stream Map
Module 6: Target Operating Models and Organisational Design
2 day course
Supporting material
Private