Duration
2 days
OVERVIEW
The course will build an understanding of the complete flow of value from Continuous Exploration to Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, and Release on Demand. Attendees will explore SAFe’s CALMR (Culture, Automation, Lean, Measure, Recover) approach to DevOps, which helps create a culture of shared responsibility for the full spectrum of Solution delivery. It helps align people, processes, and technology throughout the organization to achieve faster time-to-market.
Attendees will leave with the tools they need to execute an implementation plan for improving their delivery pipeline, and the knowledge they need to support the plan. The course also prepares students for the optional SAFe® 5 DevOps Practitioner (SDP) certification exam.
LEARNING OBJECTIVE
After attending the class, attendees should be able to:
- Explain how DevOps enables strategic business objectives
- Apply a CALMR approach to DevOps to avoid automating broken processes
- Understand how successful DevOps requires continuous exploration, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and the ability to release to end users on demand
- Incorporate continuous testing and continuous security into the delivery pipeline
- Use value stream mapping to measure flow and identify bottlenecks in the end-to-end delivery process
- Select DevOps skills and tools strategically for the fastest, most compelling results
- Prioritize DevOps solutions and investments for greatest economic benefit
- Design and implement a multi-phased DevOps transformation plan tailored to their organization
- Work with all roles and levels in the organization to continually optimize the value stream
DELIVERABLES
The class registration includes:
- Attendee workbook
- Preparation and eligibility to take the exam
- One-year membership to the SAFe Community Platform
- Certification of completion
- SAFe DevOps Practitioner certification upon passing of exam
- Attendees must attend both days of the course in order to qualify for the exam.
AUDIENCE
The following will benefit from this course:
- All members of an Agile Release Train, Release Train Engineers, Scrum Masters
- Development Managers, Engineering Managers, Configuration Managers, Release Managers
- Development Leads, Developers, UI/UX Developers, Infrastructure Architects, System Architects
- Product Managers, Product Owners, QA Managers, Testers
- System Administrators, DBAs, InfoSec
CERTIFICATION DETAILS
Becoming a Certified SAFe 5 DevOps Practitioner requires an exceptional range of skills and is a career path for many servant leaders. Certification includes:
- SAFe 5 Certified DevOps Practitioner PDF certificate
- SAFe 5 Certified DevOps Practitioner digital badge to promote your accomplishment online
- One-year membership to the SAFe Community Platform
- Access to Meetup groups and events that connect you with other SAFe Certified Professionals
- A variety of learning resources to support you during your SAFe journey
DETAILED COURSE OUTLINE
Module 1 - Introducing DevOps
The ability to release value to customers when they need it is crucial to the success of today’s businesses. Which is why every Agile Team, Agile Release Train (ART), and Solution Train must develop a Continuous Delivery Pipeline and DevOps (a concatenation of Development and Operations) mindset.
- Recognize the problem to be solved
- Explain DevOps and its benefits
- Describe continuous security and testing
- Describe core DevOps principles
Module 2 - Mapping your Continuous Delivery Pipeline
In order to improve the flow of value and enable Release on Demand, each ART establishes a Continuous Delivery Pipeline. The continuous delivery pipeline shows the flow of value through four dimensions: Continuous Exploration, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and Release on Demand. This flow represents a triple feedback loop, with value flowing to customers, while feedback and learning flow back to development to inform the decisions of what to build next.
- Explain the purpose of mapping the Value Stream
- Visualize the current state of the delivery pipeline using key metrics
Module 3 - Gaining alignment with Continuous Exploration
To fosters innovation and creates alignment on what needs to be built. It starts with an idea or a hypothesis of something that will provide value to customers. Ideas are analyzed and researched, leading to the development of Minimal Viable Products (MVPs). Once the hypothesis is defined, their architecture is articulated, and Features are defined and prioritized in the Program Backlog. Finally, the Agile Release Train (ART) collaborates during PI Planning on what it will build during the next Program Increment (PI).
- Create solution hypotheses
- Collaborate and research customer needs
- Architect the solution for continuous delivery
- Synthesize the Vision, the Roadmap, and the Program Backlog
Module 4 - Building quality with Continuous Integration
Builds quality into the development process by integrating the ongoing work of the Agile Teams. All work is version controlled, and new functionality is built and continuously integrated into a full system or solution and tested end-to-end before being validated on a staging environment.
- Develop the solution
- Build continuously
- Test end-to-end
- Validate on a staging environment
Module 5 - Reducing time-to-market with Continuous Deployment
Continuous deployment takes the changes from the staging environment and deploys them to production. At that point, they’re verified and monitored to make sure they are working properly. This step makes the features available in production, where the business will determine the appropriate time to release them to customers. In this dimension also allows the organization to respond, rollback, or fix forward when necessary.
- Deploy to production
- Verify the solution
- Monitor for problems
- Respond and recover
Module 6 - Delivering Business Value with Release on Demand
Release on demand is the ability to make value available to customers all at once—or in an ad hoc fashion—based on the needs of the market and the business. This dimension focuses on allowing the business to measure the outcome of its hypothesis and learn what it needs to do next based on the objective evidence of the customer response to the value released.
- Release on demand
- Stabilize the solution
- Measure the business value
- Learn and react
Module 7 - Taking action
DevOps start with recognizing the need and prioritizing backlog. Let’s start by doing it and preparing action plan for building successful DevOps implementation plan.
- Prioritize the backlog
- Share you DevOps action plan
EXAM DETAILS
- Exam name – SAFe 5 DevOps Practitioner Exam
- Exam format – Multiple choice, multiple response
- Exam delivery – Web-based (single-browser), closed book, no outside assistance, timed
- Exam duration – Once the exam begins, candidates have 90 minutes (1.5 hours) to complete the exam.
- Number of questions – 45
- Passing score – 33 out of 45 (73%)
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.