ICAgile Certified Professional – Foundation of DevOps

On completion of the ICAgile Foundation of DevOps course, delegates will be able to:

• Explain the origins of DevOps and the benefits an organization can gain from adopting DevOps.
• Contrast DevOps as a set of practices with DevOps as a mindset based on a set of principles and how to apply them in practice.
• Describe the cultural changes when adopting the DevOps culture.
• Demonstrate the scope of version control and how a single source of truth supports DevOps.
• Describe effective configuration management elements and techniques.
• Explain the principles and key practices of continuous integration, contrasting good/bad CI approaches.
• Explain how different aspects of quality assurance complement each other and identify risks involved in skimping on QA practices.
• Describe and differentiate both continuous delivery and continuous deployment, explaining how they relate to a DevOps culture.
• Explain the benefits of continuous delivery and how its principles improve software development.
• Describe and contrast continuous delivery practices, distinguishing from practices based on the context of their own environment.
• Describe an end-to-end deployment pipeline and explain the choices made for each stage.
• Illustrate how infrastructure choices impact the ability to effectively implement and scale DevOps.
• Show DevOps implications of DevOps on data and database management and explain the practices needed to ensure data integrity in a DevOps environment.

INTRODUCTION

• What is DevOps?
• Origins of DevOps
• DevOps Principles
• Systems Thinking
• Definition of Done
• The CALMS model

CALMS: CULTURE

• What is Culture?
• Build Quality in
• Done Means Released
• Everyone is Responsible for the Delivery Process
• Continuous Improvement

CALMS: AUTOMATION

• What is Automation?
• Why do we Automate?
• Automate Almost Everything

DEVELOPMENT

• Development Approaches
• Configuration Management
• Version Control – Mainline
• Static Analysis
• Commit Stage

TESTING

• Why do we test?
• What tests are good candidates for Automation
• Test Automation Strategies
• Types of Tests
• Testing within the automated development

CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION

• Keep everything in source control.
• Prioritise fixing the build
• Continuous feedback

CONTINUOUS DELIVERY

• Repeatable, Reliable Process for Releasing Software
• If it Hurts, Do it More Frequently, and Bring the Pain Forward
• Build Binaries Only Once
• Same Deploy Process Everywhere
• Smoke Test Your Deployment

CONTINUOUS DEPLOYMENT

• Definition of Deployment Pipeline
• Manual testing
• Non-functional testing
• Pushing to production
• Deployment orchestration

CALMS: LEAN

• Lean principles
• Muda Mura and Muri
• Seven Wastes of Lean
• Business Value
• Flow

OPERATIONS

• Managing Infrastructure
• Application configuration
• Third Party Components
• Managing Data Change
• Rolling back a release

CALMS: MEASUREMENT

• Lagging and Leading Indicators
• What are the key DevOps Metrics?
• Monitoring
• Continuity planning

CALMS: SHARING

• Sharing
• Essential conflict
• Teams
• T-shaped Profiles
• The Westrum organisational typology model
• Conway’s law
• A Fearless Organisational structure
• Roles and Activities within DevOps
• Business System teams and the Platform team
• Distributed teams

No specific prerequisites are necessary. However basic familiarity with Agile, Scrum, Lean, and DevOps principles is beneficial.

• ISTQB® Certified Tester – Foundation Level
• ICAgile Certified Agile Fundamentals

This course is aimed at a broad audience of technical and/or non-technical professionals whose role are touched by DevOps and continuous delivery.