Duration
3 days
Overview
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.
Target Group
- Anyone starting or leading a DevOps cultural transformation program
- Anyone interested in modern IT leadership and organisational change approaches
- IT team leaders, managers, directors and business stakeholders, Practitioners and change agents
- DevOps tool providers, systems integrators, and consultants
Course Outcome
Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to understand:
- The new ways of thinking and working in their organization
- 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 Outline
Course Introduction
- Course Goals
- Course Agenda
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
- 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
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.