DevOps® Leader

Master the art of transformational leadership with the DevOps Leader certification. Equip yourself with the tools, skills, and strategies to drive cultural change, optimize value streams, and lead your organization to high-performance DevOps success.

Core themes:

  • DevOps and transformational leadership

  • Unlearning behaviours

  • Becoming a DevOps organisation

  • DevOps and AI

  • Measuring to learn

  • Measuring to improve

  • Target Operating Models and organisational design

  • Articulating and socialising vision

  • Maintaining energy and momentum

What you will learn…

  • Explore current DevOps definitions and their benefits, learn how to leverage transformational leadership, soft skills, The Golden Circle, and the Lean Strategic Change Canvas to drive successful change.

    Learn how psychological safety and neuroscience principles can help you address mindset, mental models, cognitive bias, and improve governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) within DevOps.

    Discover how adopting DevOps principles will transform your organisation and enable you to make significant advancements in your industry.

    Learn how to leverage the wide range of available tools and techniques to measure your team’s success, stay ahead of the curve and get the most out of your DevOps implementation.

    Discover how to create a current Value Stream Map and focus on meaningful metrics to drive continuous improvement while avoiding the pitfalls of measuring to target. Maximize your team’s success by leveraging effective measurement strategies.

    Explore how Conway's Law influences DevOps success, design Target Operating Models (TOM) using key DevOps principles, and learn about Teal Organizations to drive desired outcomes and transformative organizational design.

    Master the art of storytelling to inspire and empower your team, drive performance management, and effectively communicate a shared vision that aligns with organizational goals.

    Learn how to foster good working relationships with developers, operators and management in order to gain a better understanding of the system and the solutions it offers.

    Duration

    • 2 days, or

    • 3 days including additional recap, exam preparation and workshops pertaining to your real world application build, test, release & deployment practices.

  • Outcomes and benefits include:

    • Lead cross functional teams to achieve better, faster, cheaper and more secure deployments.

    • Learn approaches and techniques to transform legacy delivery practices, tools and teams towards modern DevOps/CI-CD capabilities.

    • Align DevOps/CI-CD practices with the rest of your ICT Operating Model

    • Comply with and interact with ICT Governance

    • Understand metrics and how they can drive further capability uplift and performance

  • This course prepares participants for the examination leading to the DevOps Leader Certificate.

    Format:

    • A 60-minute, 40 question, multiple-choice exam.

    • Administered by an independent examination body, PeopleCert.

    • A passing mark of 65% is required to receive your certificate.

    The exam is provided as an online examination voucher, upon completing your course you will receive an email from PeopleCert with information on how to register and schedule your exam. The examination is 60 minutes, please allow for an additional 30 minutes for set up and authentication. You will require a photo identification, quiet space, webcam, speakers and a reliable internet connection.

    The exam schedule is available 24/7 so you can sit your exam at a time that suits you. Your voucher will be valid for 12 months, we do recommend you complete your examination as close to the course date as you can – this is when the information is fresh and relevant.

  • The target audience for the DevOps Leader course includes aspiring leaders in Operations, Development, QA and Testing, such as:

    • DevOps Change Agents

    • IT Transformation Leaders

    • DevOps Program Leads

    • IT Directors and Managers

    • DevOps Leaders

    • SRE Leaders

    • Cybersecurity Managers

    • DevOps Practitioners

    • Service Owners

    • Product Owners

    • Agile Coaches

    • Lean Coaches

    • Scrum Masters

    • System Integrators

    • Value-Added Resellers

    • Organizational Change Consultants

  • DevOps Foundation certification.