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SAFe® DevOps

Join our SAFe® DevOps classroom training course to learn about the SAFe framework with an in-person trainer in a classroom setting and become a Certified SAFe® DevOps Practitioner (SDP).

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Description

The two-day, interactive SAFe® DevOps course helps people across technical, non-technical, and leadership roles work together to optimise their value stream from end to end. Attendees will learn what DevOps is, why it is important to every role, and design a continuous delivery pipeline that is tailored to their business.

Optimising Your Value Stream

Delivering valuable solutions faster doesn’t involve just engineers developing software. It involves introducing a shared DevOps mindset among all the people who define, build, test, deploy, and release software-driven products. The SAFe® DevOps course helps people in technical, non-technical, and leadership roles optimise their development value stream from end to end. Take this course with your entire cross-functional team to map your current value stream from concept to cash. Design a Continuous Delivery Pipeline that’s relevant to your business. And get the guidance and tools you need to work effectively in remote environments with distributed teams.

What’s Included:

  • Course workbook and SAFe Studio access to help you prepare to take the certification exam, claim your digital badge, and access tools to get started in your SAFe role
  • Remote learning via SAFe® Virtual Classrooms
  • One-year access to SAFe Studio with your first class attendance
  • Value Stream Mapping workshop
  • Platform access to e-learning modules and curated members-only content to support your SAFe transformation
  • Member discussion forums to engage in ongoing conversations on the SAFe framework or how to better perform as part of an Agile Team
  • Curated content playlists based on your interests and roles, including templated resources and facilitation guides to get you started
  • Access to content, tools, and resources needed to practice SAFe every day
  • SAFe DevOps certification exam
Outcomes

Course Objectives

After taking the course, you will know how to:

  • Incorporate continuous testing and continuous security into the delivery pipeline
  • Integrate continuous exploration, integration, and deployment, and release value to end users on demand
  • Design and implement an actionable DevOps transformation plan tailored to your organisation
  • Evaluate and improve your current state using tools like the DevOps Health Radar and Transformation Canvas

Attendees will learn:

  • How to incorporate continuous testing and continuous security into the delivery pipeline
  • How to integrate continuous exploration, integration, and deployment, and release value to end users on demand
  • How to design and implement an actionable DevOps transformation plan tailored to your organisation
  • How to evaluate and improve your current state using tools like the DevOps Health Radar and Transformation Canvas

SAFe® DevOps answers the questions:

  • What is DevOps and how does it enable strategic business objectives?
  • What are the mindset, culture, and technical practices to successfully define, build, test, deploy, and release?
  • How do I use value stream mapping to measure flow and spot bottlenecks in the delivery pipeline?
About the Exam
  • Duration: 90 minutes
  • Number of Questions: 45
  • Passing Score: 33/45 (73%)
  • Competency Level: Intermediate; Proficient, capable; can perform tasks with some assistance
  • Question Format: Multiple choice (one answer) or multiple select (2-3 answers)
  • Delivery: Web-based, closed book, no outside assistance, timed
  • Access: Community Platform upon completion of the course
  • Languages Offered: English
  • Cost: First attempt included in the course registration fee if taken within 30 days of course completion. Each retake or attempt past the 30-day window is $50

Exam Topics and References:

Domain

Topics

References

Introducing DevOps (11%)

Recognise the problem to be solved, Explain DevOps and its benefits, Describe core DevOps principles

SAFe DevOps Student Workbook: materials and exercises from Lesson 1, DevOps

Mapping your value stream (13%)

Explain the purpose of mapping the Value Stream, Evaluate the efficiency of your current Value Stream

SAFe DevOps Student Workbook: materials and exercises from Lesson 2, DevOps and Release on Demand

Gaining alignment with continuous exploration (31%)

Create Solution hypotheses, Collaborate and research customer needs, Architect the Solution for continuous delivery

SAFe DevOps Student Workbook: materials and exercises from Lessons 3-6, Built-In Quality, Continuous Delivery Pipeline, Continuous Exploration, Lean UX, Release on Demand, WSJF

Building quality in with continuous integration (31%)

Build continuously, Test end-to-end

SAFe DevOps Student Workbook: materials and exercises from Lessons 4 and 7, Inspect and Adapt, Iteration Retrospective

Reducing time-to-market with continuous deployment (4%)

Release on demand, Monitor for problems, Respond and recover

SAFe DevOps Student Workbook: materials and exercises from Lesson 5

Delivering business value with release on demand (7%)

Stabilise the Solution, Measure the business value

SAFe DevOps Student Workbook: materials and exercises from Lessons 5 and 6

Taking action (3%)

Craft an action plan for DevOps transformation

SAFe DevOps Student Workbook: materials and exercises from Lesson 7, WSJF

Price

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04 495 9100 or email us at info@projectplus.co.nz