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Prerequisites

Basic familiarity with Agile, Scrum, and DevOps is beneficial. The course aims at (prospective) managers and leaders who have working experience or interest in taking a (formal or informal) leadership role to help teams and organizations to transform—grow, accelerate, increase their performance, and get more business value out of IT.

Course Outline

Module 1: DevOps and Building High-Performance Digital Organizations

The module emphasizes the core concepts of

• DevOps
• Change management
• The role leaders play in leading DevOps transformation
• This knowledge will enable you to analyze existing market trends in digital disruption, discuss the impact of these trends on a typical organization, and understand the urgency for digital transformation for organizations to remain competitive.

Module 2: Defining DevOps Leadership

• The module emphasizes the following
• contemporary leadership and management styles and practices.
• This knowledge will enable you to examine, evaluate, and adopt the best leadership styles and practices during a DevOps transformation.
• In other words, the module will empower you to start acting as a DevOps Leader.

Module 3: Shaping the DevOps Transformation

• The module emphasizes defining the
• ‘Why’ of the DevOps transformation and explains various approaches to define the objectives, value, and scope of this transformation.
• This knowledge will enable you to create an effective change story for the DevOps transformation.
• The story that you would like to lead and create the required climate in your organization for the upcoming change.

Module 4: Creating Conditions for Success - People and their Workplace

• The module emphasizes the following
• creating specific conditions from the people’s perspective to increase the success of the DevOps transformation.
• It highlights key characteristics of a culture in which individuals thrive and contribute to becoming a High-Performance Digital Organization.
• This knowledge will enable you to determine what talent management strategies and leadership practices you should adopt for your DevOps transformation to be most effective.

Module 5: Creating Conditions for Success - Processes & Governance

• The module emphasizes the following
• creating specific conditions from the process and governance perspective to increase the success of the DevOps transformation.
• It highlights key characteristics of how to set up an organization thriving on autonomous, end-to-end responsible product teams for generating as much business value for the organization as possible.
• Business-IT barriers, complex or bureaucratic governance structures, or other constraints that slow down the flow of work do not exist in such organizations and their processes.
• This knowledge will enable you to create the right structure and way of working for your High-Performance Digital organization based on proven DevOps practices.

Module 6: Creating Conditions for Success - Architecture and Technology

• The module emphasizes the following
• creating specific conditions from the IT architecture and technology perspective to increase the success of the DevOps transformation.
• It highlights key characteristics of how organizations benefit from modern IT infrastructure, continuous delivery, and scalable modern software architectures.
• The module also explains how best to optimize between autonomy at the (DevOps) team level and at the centralized governance, rules, and regulations level to ensure high-quality solutions.
• This knowledge will enable you to find a balance in your DevOps organization for leveraging state-of-the-art technology and ways of working on the one hand, and proven metrics, governance systems, and built-in quality controls on the other hand.

Module 7: Leading Successful Transformations

The module emphasizes the following

• creating key organizational culture preconditions for a successful DevOps Transformation and following the required steps to effectively bootstrap this transformation.
• Insights into the organization’s status quo (in relationship to the goals and ambitions of the transformation) is equally important as building an effective transformation team.
• This knowledge will enable you to successfully get a DevOps transformation off the ground by adopting proven change management and leadership practices.

Module 8: Putting it into Action

The module emphasizes the following

• what leaders should do during their DevOps transformation to deal with change management and conduct proper stakeholder management.
• Transformations often result in unforeseen responses from people, and everybody responds differently to change.
• This knowledge will enable you to understand what makes people tick and how best to communicate and collaborate with them to drive a DevOps transformation successfully.