DevOps Leader (DOL)

Length 2 days
Inclusions Exam voucher

Course overview

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Why study this course

The DevOps Leader (DOL)® course introduces new and innovative ways to organise and manage value streams using DevOps practices. Tailored for those engaged in a DevOps evolution, it is a unique and practical experience for participants who want to take a transformational leadership approach and make an impact within their organisation by implementing DevOps. Leading people through a DevOps evolution requires new skills, tools, innovative thinking, and transformational leadership. Leaders up, down and across an organisation must align and collaborate to break down silos and evolve the organisation.

This 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.

This 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.

Included with this course:

Learner Manual (excellent post-class reference)
Participation in unique exercises designed to apply concepts
Exam voucher
Sample documents, templates, tools and techniques
Access to additional value-added resources and communities

Examination

This course pricing includes an exam voucher to sit an online proctored exam through PeopleCert. A sample exam paper will be discussed during class to assist with preparation.

Open book
60 minutes
40 multiple-choice questions
Answer 26 questions correctly (65%) to pass and be designated as DevOps Leader certified

Aligns to certification

DevOps Leader (DOL) certification

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What you’ll learn

Participants will develop 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 organisational design
Performance management, rewards and motivation
Preparing investment cases
Focusing on value outcomes
Ideas for organising workflows
Empowerment and participation
Defining meaningful metrics
Value stream mapping
Driving cultural and behavioural change

DevOps Institute at Lumify Work

DevOps is the cultural and professional movement that stresses communication, collaboration, integration, and automation in order to improve the workflow between software developers and IT operations professionals. DevOps certifications are offered by the DevOps Institute (DOI), which brings enterprise level DevOps training and certification to the IT market.

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Who is the course for?

Professionals including:

Anyone starting or leading a DevOps cultural transformation program
Anyone interested in modern IT leadership and organisational 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 subjects

DevOps and Transformational Leadership

Current Definitions of DevOps
Benefits of DevOps
Transformational Leadership

Unlearning Behaviours

Psychological Safety and Neuroscience
Mindset, Mental Models and Cognitive Bias
Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) and DevOps

Becoming a DevOps Organisation

How DevOps Differs
DevOps Kaizen
Building Safety In

Measure to Learn

Avoiding Measure to Target
Creating a Current Value Stream Map

Measure to Improve

The Improvement Kata and Experiments
Creating a Future Value Stream Map

Target Operating Models and Organisational Design

Conway’s Law
Desired Outcomes of DevOps
DevOps TOM Design Principles

Articulating and Socialising Vision

Organisational Change in Large Enterprises
Empowering People
Broadcasting Outside of Your Organisation

Maintaining Energy and Momentum

The DevOps Business Case
Culture and Climate
A High-Trust Culture

Additional Sources of Information

Exam Preparations

Exam Requirements, Question Weighting, and Terminology List
Sample Exam Review

Prerequisites

Recommended:

An understanding and knowledge of common DevOps terminology and concepts
Sitting the DevOps Foundation course (or an equivalent) first will provide a good basis
Related work experience

PeopleCert DevOps Exams

DevOps Institute exams are now conducted via PeopleCert's online proctoring, with an improved web-based platform released in February 2024. Candidates can schedule their exam for any time within the voucher validity period of 12 months, to be taken anywhere, on any Windows or Mac computer. Live proctors will guide and invigilate the exam process. For full details please see PeopleCert's Guidelines for Web-Based Exam Driver.

To comply with PeopleCert requirements, Lumify Work cannot provide DevOps Institute training courses without the corresponding official exam.

Terms & Conditions

The supply of this course by Lumify Work is governed by the booking terms and conditions. Please read the terms and conditions carefully before enrolling in this course, as enrolment in the course is conditional on acceptance of these terms and conditions.