Course description:

The 2-days DevOps Leader course, accredited by DevOps Institute, 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.

Benefits:

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 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

Target audience:

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

Prerequisites:

• Participants should have baseline knowledge and understanding of common DevOps definitions and principles.

• Course introduction
• Module 1. DevOps and Transformational Leadership
• Module 2. Unlearning Behaviors
• Module 3. Becoming a DevOps Organization
• Module 4. Measure to Learn
• DevOps Leader mock exam

• Module 5. Measure to Improve
• Module 6. Target Operating Models & Organizational Designs
• Module 7. Visualizing and Socializing Vision
• Module 8. Maintaining Energy and Momentum
• Course review
• Exam tips and tricks
• DevOps Leader certification exam

• Exam type: on-line proctored, multiple choice (1 correct answer out of 4)
• Exam duration: 90 minutes
• Number of questions: 40
• Pass mark: 65% (26/40)
• Exam language: English
• Closed book.

• Pre-course reading material
• DevOps Leader Study Guide
• DevOps Leader Syllabus
• DevOps Leader Recommended Reading
• DevOps Glossary
• Exam Tips
• DevOps Leader (DOL) Sample Paper with Answer Key

• Type of training: Virtual class (Instructor-led live online class), On-site open group class, On-site closed group class
• Training language: English or Polish
• Material language: English
• Group size: 8 to 14 participants
• Prerequisites: DevOps Foundation certification is recommended
• Accreditation granted to Asseco Data Systems by DevOps Institute.

• Each participant should register for the training session between 08:30-08:50
• The training is conducted between 09:00 am and 3:30 pm
• During the training day there will be several breaks, including one 1-hour lunch break and 10-minutes coffee breaks after each hour of training.
• Study guide and other training materials are distributed in a digital version.
• Exams are carried out in the form of vouchers.