DevOps Leader
Master the art of transformational leadership with the DevOps Leader certification. Equip yourself with the tools, skills, and strategies to drive cultural change, optimize value streams, and lead your organization to high-performance DevOps success.
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 was developed to equip participants with the skills needed for a successful leadership position in a fast-paced DevOps and Agile environment. The course is delivered by experienced DevOps consultants who share their knowledge through real-life best practices in leading DevOps initiatives.
This one-day course positions learners to successfully complete the DevOps Leader certification exam.
Course objectives
By the end of this course, you will be able to understand:
- 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
- Driving cultural and behavioural change
Course outline
DevOps and Transformational Leadership:
- Explore current DevOps definitions and their benefits
- Learn how to leverage transformational leadership, soft skills, The Golden Circle, and the Lean Strategic Change Canvas to drive successful change
Unlearning Behaviours:
- Learn how psychological safety and neuroscience principles can help you address mindset
- Understand mental models and cognitive bias
- Improve governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) within DevOps
Becoming a DevOps Organisation:
- Discover how adopting DevOps principles will transform your organisation and enable you to make significant advancements in your industry
Measuring to Learn:
- Learn how to leverage the wide range of available tools and techniques to measure your team’s success
- Stay ahead of the curve and get the most out of your DevOps implementation
Measuring to Improve:
- Discover how to create a current Value Stream Map and focus on meaningful metrics to drive continuous improvement while avoiding the pitfalls of measuring to target.
- Maximize your team’s success by leveraging effective measurement strategies.
Target Operating Models and Organizational Design:
- Explore how Conway’s Law influences DevOps success
- Design Target Operating Models (TOM) using key DevOps principles
- Learn about Teal Organizations to drive desired outcomes and transformative organizational design
Articulating and Socializing Vision:
- Master the art of storytelling to inspire and empower your team, drive performance management, and effectively communicate a shared vision that aligns with organizational goals
Maintaining Energy and Momentum:
- Learn how to foster good working relationships with developers, operators and management in order to gain a better understanding of the system and the solutions it offers
Logistics
- When: On request
- Where: On request or in our offices in Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, France or the UK
- Duration: 8 hours over a day
- Price: Individual seat in public training: €850
- For whom: Anyone with no existing to very limited knowledge of Scrum.
- Prerequisites: DevOps Foundation certified
- Certification: DevOps Leader certificate (exam voucher included)