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Course Overview

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 cultural transformation requires new skills, innovative thinking, and transformational leadership. Leaders up, down and across the IT 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.

Who Should Attend

The target audience for the DevOps Leader course are professionals including: Anyone starting or leading a DevOps cultural transformation program, Anyone interested in modern IT leadership and organizational change approaches, Business Managers, Business Stakeholders, Change Agents, Consultants, DevOps Consultants, DevOps Engineers, IT Directors, IT Managers, IT Team, Leaders, Lean Coaches, Practitioners, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, System Integrators, Tool Providers

Course Objectives

The learning objectives for DOL include a practical understanding of:

• DevOps and time to market
• The business and IT perspectives
• Key differences between DevOps IT and traditional IT
• Planning and organizing
• Understanding performance and culture
• Measurement differences
• Designing a DevOps organization
• Focusing on what matters
• Ideas for organizing workflows
• Sharing information
• Defining meaningful metrics
• Value stream mapping
• The Spotify Squad model
• Managing culture change
• Popular tools and key practices
• Putting it all together

Course Prerequisites

• DevOps Foundation

Course Outline