DOL - DevOps Leader

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.

This certification positions learners to successfully complete the DevOps Leader exam.

Objectives:

On completion of this course, the following learning outcomes will be achieved:

• 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.

Prerequisites:

There are no prerequisites to attending the DevOps Leader course or sitting the certification examination. Familiarity with DevOps definitions and principles are essential.