Lead successful DevOps transformation and build high-performing organizations.
Learn how to drive organizational change, foster a culture of collaboration, and lead DevOps transformation initiatives that improve business outcomes.
Develop practical knowledge of transformational leadership, value stream optimization, governance, measurement, organizational design, and change management to support sustainable DevOps success.
- Why get trained: Gain leadership frameworks and practical strategies to guide DevOps adoption, align teams around shared goals, and create a culture that supports innovation and continuous improvement.
- Why it matters: Organizations increasingly recognize that successful DevOps transformation depends on leadership, culture, and organizational alignment as much as technology and automation.
- Who should attend: Executives, IT leaders, transformation leaders, department heads, DevOps leaders, service managers, product leaders, project managers, and professionals responsible for organizational change and business transformation.
Lead meaningful organizational change and unlock the full business value of DevOps transformation. HRD Corp Claimable

Overview
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 DevOps Leader certification 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.
Skills Covered
On completion of this course, the following learning outcomes will be achieved:
- 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.
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites to attending the DevOps Leader course or sitting the certification examination. Familiarity with DevOps definitions and principles are essential.
Target Audience
The target audience for this course are professionals, such as:
- Anyone starting or leading a DevOps cultural transformation program
- Anyone interested in modern IT leadership and organizational change approaches
- Business Managers and Stakeholders
- Change Agents
- Consultants
- DevOps Consultants
- DevOps Engineers
- IT Directors and Managers
- IT Team Leaders
- Lean Coaches
- Practitioners
- Product Owners
- Scrum Masters
- System Integrators
- Tool Providers

Module 1: DevOps and Transformational Leadership
- Current Definitions of DevOps
- Benefits of DevOps
- Transformational Leadership
Module 2: Unlearning Behaviours
- Psychological Safety and Neuroscience
- Mindset, Mental Models and Cognitive Bias
- Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) and DevOps
Module 3: Becoming a DevOps Organization
- How DevOps Differs
- DevOps Kaizen
- Building Safety In
Module 4: Measure to Learn
- Avoiding Measure to Target
- Creating a Current Value Stream Map
Module 5: Measure to Improve
- The Improvement Kata and Experiments
- Creating a Future Value Stream Map
Module 6: Target Operating Models and Organizational Design
- Conway’s Law
- Desired Outcomes of DevOps
- DevOps TOM Design Principles
Module 7: Articulating and Socializing Vision
- Organizational Change in Large Enterprises
- Empowering People
- Broadcasting Outside of Your Organization
Module 8: Maintaining Energy and Momentum
- The DevOps Business Case
- Culture and Climate
- A High-Trust Culture
Dates & Locations
June 24, 2026 - June 25, 2026
June 24, 2026 - June 25, 2026
August 13, 2026 - August 14, 2026
August 13, 2026 - August 14, 2026
October 15, 2026 - October 16, 2026
October 15, 2026 - October 16, 2026
December 10, 2026 - December 11, 2026
December 10, 2026 - December 11, 2026

Exam & Certification
Successfully passing (65%) the 60-minute examination, consisting of 40 multiple-choice questions, leads to the candidate’s designation as a certified DevOps Leader (DOL). The certification is governed and maintained by DevOps Institute.
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