DevOps Leader (DOL)®

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Description

The DevOps Leader course is a unique and practical experience for participants who want to take a transformational leadership approach and make an impact within their organization by implementing DevOps. 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 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.

Objectives

The learning objectives for DOL include 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 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

Course Audience

This course is ideal for:

• Anyone starting or leading a DevOps cultural transformation program
• Anyone interested in modern IT leadership and organizational 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

Prerequisites

Participants should have baseline knowledge and understanding of common DevOps definitions and principles.

Certification Credential:

Successfully passing the exam, leads to the candidate’s designation as a certified DevOps Leader (DOL). The certification is governed and maintained by the DevOps Institute.

It is recommended that candidates complete at least 16 contact hours (instruction and labs) as part of a formal, approved training course delivered by an accredited Education Partner of DevOps Institute.

PMI Professional Development Units (PDU)

Attendees may be eligible to apply for PDU towards their continuing education requirements with PMI

For detailed information regarding course policies, terms, and conditions, please visit our dedicated section.

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