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Course Outline

1. Introduction

  • Establishing Goals and Assessing the Current State
  • The Objective of DevOps

2. Understanding DevOps

  • Background and Historical Context
  • Challenges and Issues in Modern Environments
  • The Inherent Conflict in IT Core Operations
  • Roles within DevOps
  • Defining DevOps
  • Core Concepts

3. Ball Point Game

4. The Rationale for DevOps

  • Key Driving Factors
  • Case Study: Amazon's Process
  • Insights from the State of DevOps Report
  • Connections Between Manufacturing and DevOps

5. DevOps at Microsoft – A Case Study

  • Dark Launches
  • Feature Flags
  • Transitioning from Agile to DevOps
  • Branching Strategies
  • Team Structures
  • Cultivating a Live Site Culture

6. How DevOps Functions

  • Continuous Integration
  • Continuous Deployment
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Continuous Testing
  • Continuous Monitoring
  • Automation
  • Kanban End-to-End

7. Culture and DevOps

  • People and Trust
  • Resilience
  • Engagement as a Priority
  • Redefining Metrics
  • The Law of Motivation
  • Essential Elements for a Successful DevOps Culture

9. Tool Time

  • Build Automation
  • Test Automation
  • Deployment Automation
  • Environment Provisioning
  • Automated Feedback and Monitoring

10. DevOps Assessment

12. Summary and Next Steps

In-Class Exercises:

  • Individual and Team Goals – Identifying current issues and goals
  • The Ball Point Game – Creative team game to learn about process optimization
  • The Penny Game – see how Kanban and batch sizes affect delivery
  • DISC Assessment – personality / culture exercise
  • DevOps Assessment – Where Are We?
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