About this Event
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About This Course
Duration: 2 Days (9:00 AM – 5:00 PM)
Delivery Mode: Classroom / In-Person Workshop
Language: English
Credits: 16 PDUs / Training Hours
Certification: Course Completion Certificate Provided
Refreshments: Lunch, tea/coffee, and snacks included
Course Overview
DASA – DevOps Professional: Enable and Scale (Pro) is a two day workshop designed to build on DevOps fundamentals and focus on four essential skill areas: courage, teambuilding, leadership, and continuous improvement. The workshop combines DevOps theory, pragmatic examples, exercises, interactive group discussions, and role plays to help participants understand how to apply these skills in real-world DevOps environments. Participants receive a Course Completion Certificate upon successful completion.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to explain the importance of DevOps culture and the aspects that influence it, understand why courage, teambuilding, leadership, and continuous improvement are required, recognize team behaviors and dysfunctions, form and assess DevOps teams, analyze value streams, and facilitate tools such as retrospectives, story mapping, and structured problem-solving workshops.
Target Audience
This workshop is intended for individuals involved in IT development, IT operations, or IT Service Management, including DevOps Engineers, Product Owners, Integration Specialists, Operations Managers, Incident and Change Managers, System Administrators, Network Administrators, Business Managers, Automation Architects, and Enterprise Architects.
Why choose this course?
This one-day workshop goes beyond tools and processes by focusing on the human and cultural skills that truly enable DevOps success. It helps organizations scale DevOps effectively by strengthening leadership, fostering courageous teams, improving collaboration, and embedding continuous improvement. Through practical examples, discussions, and exercises, participants gain actionable insights they can immediately apply in their DevOps environment.
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Agenda
Module 01: Course Introduction
Info: • Let’s Get to Know Each Other
• Course Overview
• Course Objectives
• Course Agenda
• Course Book
• Group Discussions
• Exam
Module 02: Teambuilding
Info: • Design Teams
• Introduction to a DevOps Team
• Characteristics of a DevOps Team
• Boundaries for a DevOps Team
• Build Teams
• Creating High Performance Teams
• Feedback: Giving and Taking
• Shared Responsibility and Accountability
• Governance
• Governance on Three Levels
• Governance Within a Team
• Governance Between Teams
• Governance Between Organizations
• Scaling
• External Suppliers
Module 03: DevOps Leadership
Info: • Build Culture
• Create the Right Environment
• Change the Habitual Behavior
• Fail Fast to Improve
• Maintain the Agile Soil
• Create Purpose
• Importance of Storytelling
• Define the Purpose of Having a Purpose
• Relate Alignment with Autonomy
• Be a Servant Leader
• Give Control to the Team
• Inspire and Support the Team
• Make Your Own Leadership Manifesto
• Focus on Success
• Customer Value and Team Success
• Measure and Steer Value
Module 04: Courage
Info: • Importance of Courage
• Out of Your Comfort Zone
• Resilience
• Courage in Relationship with Leadership and Feedback
• Courage at the Team Level
• Dealing with Failure
• Think Different on a Day-to-day Basis
• During Standups
• Standup from Hell
• 10th Man Rule
• Think Different in an Organized Way
• Open Allocation Time
• Guilds
Module 05: Value – Customer Centric Action
Info: • Customer Value
• The Different ‘Voices’
• Stakeholder Management
• Know Your Stakeholders
• Categorize the Stakeholders
• Lean Startup Process
• Lean Startup Versus Chaos
• Combining Lean Startup and DevOps
• Product and Service Development Approaches
• Need for Story Mapping
• Creating Story Maps
Module 06: Continuous Improvement
Info: • Build Optimal Flow
• Multitasking and One Piece Flow
• Little’s Law and Optimization of Process Lead Time
• Visualize Flow
• Flow and Resource Utilization
• Kaizen
• Radical Change
• Kaizen Event
• Value Stream Mapping
• Visual Management
• Retrospective
• Daily Standup
• Five Times ‘Why’
• Exam Preparation Guide
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
McDougall Court Northeast, 639 5 Ave SW, Suite 2500 Calgar, Calgary, Canada
CAD 1210.17 to CAD 1551.72
