Optimizing Your Value Stream with SAFe DevOps.
Delivering valuable solutions, faster, doesn’t involve just engineers developing software. It involves introducing a shared DevOps mindset among all the people who define, build, test, deploy, and release software-driven products.
The SAFe DevOps course helps people in technical, non-technical, and leadership roles optimize their development value stream from end to end. Take this course with the rest of your cross-functional team to map your current value stream from concept to cash. Design a Continuous Delivery Pipeline that’s relevant to your business and get the guidance and tools you need to work effectively in remote environments with distributed teams.
In the rapidly changing world of IT, it has become essential for professionals to stay updated with the latest technological advancements. One of the latest trends in IT is DevOps, which has become an integral part of software development processes. DevOps has become a popular choice for organizations to streamline their software development processes and increase their efficiency.
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Overview
To compete in a disruptive global market, every organization needs to deliver valuable technology solutions at the speed of business. This requires a shared DevOps mindset among all the people needed to define, build, test, deploy, and release software-driven systems—not just the engineers operating a CI/CD pipeline.
The two-day, interactive Certified SAFe® DevOps Practitioner Training course helps people across technical, non-technical, and leadership roles work together to optimize their value stream from end to end. Attendees will learn what DevOps is, why it is important to every role, and design a continuous delivery pipeline that is tailored to their business. Attendees work in cross-functional teams to map their current state value stream from concept to cash, identify major bottlenecks to flow, and build an actionable implementation plan that will accelerate the benefits of DevOps in their organization.
SAFe DevOps answers the questions:
- What is DevOps and how does it enable strategic business objectives?
- What are the mindset, culture, and technical practices to successfully define, build, test, deploy, and release?
- How do I use value stream mapping to measure flow and spot bottlenecks in the delivery pipeline?
Skills Covered
Explain how DevOps enables strategic business objectives.- Apply a CALMR approach to DevOps to avoid automating broken processes.
- Understand how successful DevOps requires continuous exploration, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and the ability to release to end-users on demand.
- Incorporate continuous testing and continuous security into the delivery pipeline
- Use value stream mapping to measure flow and identify bottlenecks in the end-to-end delivery process.
- Select DevOps skills and tools strategically for the fastest, most compelling results.
- Prioritize DevOps solutions and investments for the greatest economic benefit.
- Design and implement a multi-phased DevOps transformation plan tailored to their organization.
- Work with all roles and levels in the organization to continually optimize the value stream.
Explain how DevOps enables strategic business objectives.Prerequisites
All are welcome to attend this Scaled Agile Framework course, regardless of experience. However, the following prerequisites are highly recommended:
- Attend a Leading SAFe course
- Experience working in a SAFe environment
- Experience with Lean, Agile, or other relevant certifications
Target Audience
- Members of an Agile Release Train and/or value stream; Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Developers, Testers, and other Agile Team members.
- Operations and Infrastructure engineers and practitioners; Change Management professionals, Configuration Managers, and Release Managers.
- Architects, Database Administrators, and Information Security professionals; Product Managers, Portfolio Managers, Product Owners, Release Train Engineers, and UI/UX Developers.
- Development, Engineering, QA, Infrastructure, and Operations Managers; IT and Business change agents, leaders, and executives.
Module 1: Introducing DevOps
DevOps is a mindset, a culture, and a set of technical practices. It provides communication, integration, automation, and close cooperation among all the people needed to plan, develop, test, deploy, release, and maintain a Solution.
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- Recognize the problem to be solved
- Explain DevOps and it’s benefits
- Describe continuous security and testing
- Describe core DevOps principles
Module 2: Mapping your Continuous Delivery Pipeline
The Continuous Delivery Pipeline (CDP) represents the workflows, activities, and automation needed to shepherd a new piece of functionality from ideation to an on-demand release of value to the end user. Building and maintaining a Continuous Delivery Pipeline provides each ART with the ability to deliver new functionality to users far more frequently than with traditional processes.
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- Purpose of mapping the Value Stream
- Evaluate the efficiency of your current Value Stream
Module 3: Gaining alignment with Continuous Exploration
Continuous Exploration (CE) is the process that drives innovation and fosters alignment on what should be built by continually exploring market and customer needs, and defining a Vision, Roadmap, and set of Features for a Solution that addresses those needs.
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- Create Solution hypotheses
- Collaborate and research Customer needs
- Architect for Solution for continuous delivery
- Synthesize the Vision, the Roadmap, and the Program Backlog
Module 4: Building quality with Continuous Integration
Continuous Integration (CI) is the process of taking features from the Program Backlog and developing, testing, integrating, and validating them in a staging environment where they are ready for deployment and release.
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- Develop the Solution
- Build continuously
- Test end-to-end
- Validate on a staging environment
Module 5: Reducing time-to-market with Continuous Deployment
Continuous Deployment (CD) is the process that takes validated Features in a staging environment and deploys them into the production environment, where they are readied for release.
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- Deploy to production
- Verify the Solution
- Monitor for problems
- Respond and recover
Module 6: Delivering Business Value with Release on Demand
Release on Demand is the process that deploys new functionality into production and releases it immediately or incrementally to customers based on demand.
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- Release on Demand
- Stabalize the Solution
- Measure the business value
- Learn and react
Module 7: Taking action
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- Sharing your DevOps action plan
Exam & Certification
SAFe DevOps Certification exam.
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