Short summary

For most Agile coaches, the knowledge level on how to implement DevOps on the technology side needs to be improved. What would be an effective approach and what are the technologies to take into account? What value do these add and when to implement what?

During this two-day DevOps for Agile coaches training, participants will learn how to steer on the improvement of the team’s technical capabilities needed for DevOps.

The first day focuses on the DevOps principles, capabilities, culture and the approach for successfully implementing DevOps improvements. The second day is about the concrete DevOps content and will teach the audience about the technologies used in DevOps and how to apply them in your teams for improved performance of the team.

By teaching participants the DevOps improvement approach and helping them to better understand underlying technologies such as CI/CD, Testing, Autonomy, Reliability, etc., Agile coaches are empowered to improve their teams’ performance and bring the teams to the next level. Participants will leave the training with a concrete list of improvements to apply to their team(s).

Course objectives

The learning objectives for DevOps for Agile coaches training include the following:

• Being able to improve based on technology skills besides people and process
• Understanding the technology aspects and differences when moving to DevOps
• Understanding which choices to make and how to prioritize your improvement efforts
• Knowing how to implement DevOps and coach teams towards DevOps

Course topics

• Introduction
• How to enable Flow
• Starting improvements
• Discovering what to improve first
• Building a Business Case to get priority for improvements
• Developing people
• Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery
• Automated
  • Autonomy
  • Availability
  • Testing
  • Security & Compliance
• Software defined Infrastructure and Cloud
• Improvement Kata for implementing DevOps improvements
• Conclusion

Target audience

This training is aimed at Agile coaches who want to learn more about DevOps so they can keep their coaching role and improve their teams’ performance, by using the DevOps improvement approach and improving or using underlying technologies