Agile-Driven DevOps Workshop

Course ID

11120

Course Description

Successful DevOps transformation starts with top-to-bottom agility throughout your entire organization.

Despite the widespread success of Agile development practices, success is limited if agile practices do not reach beyond development teams to deploy products delivering measurable value. Scalability, continuous integration, and ongoing maintenance in the production environment are just as critical to organizational success as the development effort itself.

Learn to apply Agile practices which enable organizational DevOps transformation.

This two-day class teaches agile skills which can be applied to both development and every other role in the value chain of a product or feature. This class will increase the agility and effectiveness of anyone who plays a part in delivering, deploying or maintaining agile projects.

Prerequisites


Audience

  • IT Managers, Directors or Team Leads
  • System Administrators
  • Application Developers and Managers
  • Application Development Manager
  • Business Analysts
  • IT Operations Staff
  • Anyone involved in release or feature planning
  • IT Stakeholders
  • Engineers
  • Product Owners

Course Content

The Case for Agile-Driven DevOps

  • The heritage of Agile and DevOps
  • The business case for DevOps
  • Common Agile and DevOps principles
  • Goals of Agile and DevOps
  • Understanding the overall value chain
  • Exercise: Defining your goals

Critical Principles of Agile & Scrum

  • Effective and quick response to change
  • Feedback loops
  • Adaptation of work
  • Cross-functional roles
  • Continuous Integration
  • Timeboxing
  • Velocity tracking
  • Linking work to end value
  • Mindset and culture
  • Exercise: Agile maturity

Transforming to Agile Culture

  • Principles as foundation
  • Principles translated to practices
  • The critical role of culture
  • What is a DevOps culture?
  • Top practices for transforming culture
  • A new way to fail
  • Exercise: Assessing cultural profile

Sprints: Agile Practices Applied

  • Planning
  • Vision
  • Roadmaps
  • Running a sprint
  • Maintaining a backlog
  • Grooming a backlog
  • Retrospectives
  • Velocity and velocity tracking
  • Stakeholder roles
  • Exercise: An operational sprint simulation

Agile roles in DevOps

  • Ownership
  • Change management
  • Operations
  • Application owners
  • Product owners
  • Architects
  • Administrators
  • Executive sponsors
  • Exercise: What's your agile role?

Agile Infrastructure

  • Iterating operational work
  • Scrum teams in Ops
  • Unified IT retrospectives
  • Designing infrastructure goals
  • Matching infrastructure to application goals
  • Cloud engineering: a primer
  • Reducing skills-based silos
  • Tools for implementing agile infrastructure

Kaizen and Continuous Improvement

  • Schooling teams on entropy
  • Common organizational goals
  • The incremental approach to Kaizen
  • How to drive the ethic into the team
  • Signs of success and failure
  • Exercise: Kaizen components: true or false

Kanban: Tracking Operational and Project Work

  • The Kanban system
  • Kanban roots: gaining perspective
  • Visualizing work
  • Push vs. pull stimulus
  • Lean principles
  • Work in Progress (WIP)
  • Queues and buffers
  • Bottlenecks
  • Blocked Work

Waste and Application of Lean Principles

  • Overproduction
  • Work in Progress (WIP)
  • Overburdening of teams
  • Time available (idle states or waiting)
  • Processing
  • Inventory, stock, unused assets
  • Handoffs and movement of work
  • Defects
  • Latent skill
  • Exercise: Identifying waste<

Scalability

  • Linking business value to operational work
  • Scaled Agile principles for increased capacity
  • Automation and scaled infrastructure
  • Prioritization
  • Throttling operational work
  • Dissolving operational silos

Going Back to Work with a Plan

  • Identifying your goals
  • Next steps
  • Open forum and real-world discussion

For More Information

For training inquiries, call 850-308-1376

or email us at eramos@gbsi.com

Course Details

Duration - 2 days
Price - $1595.00 USD


(Discounts may apply. Call for more information.)

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