DevOps Professional
DevOps is best known in the field of software services, but its principles are applicable in all contexts where fast delivery of reliable products and services is relevant. DevOps contributes to the success of the overall organisation by facilitating the synergy of Agile development, Service Management and Lean improvement while assuring security and maintaining control in a continuous delivery pipeline.
This EXIN DevOps Professional certification has been designed to give IT professionals background knowledge and understanding of essential DevOps practices. Created as a stepping-stone to the EXIN DevOps Master certification, this certification looks at the Three Ways, the good habits of change control and maintaining security compliance.
The topics covered are:
DevOps Adoption
The First Way: Flow
The Second Way: Feedback
The Third Way: Continual Learning and Experimentation
Information Security and Change Management
The word DevOps is a contraction of ‘Development’ and ‘Operations’. DevOps is a set of best practices that emphasize the collaboration and communication of IT-professionals (developers, operators, and support staff) in the lifecycle of applications and services, leading to:
Continuous Integration: merging all developed working copies to a shared mainline several times a day
Continuous Deployment: release continuously or as often as possible
Continuous Feedback: seek feedback from stakeholders during all lifecycle stages
The DevOps practices covered in this certification are derived from the Three Ways:
The First Way is to enable the work to move fast from left to right, from Development to Operations to the customer.
The Second Way is to enable feedback to go fast from right to left, from all stakeholders back into the value stream.
The Third Way is to enable learning by creating a high-trust culture of experimentation and risk-taking.
Moreover, the crucial subjects of security in all stages, and maintaining compliance during change are covered.
The certification has been developed in cooperation with experts in the DevOps work field.
Although there is no mandatory requirement, ideally candidates should have at least two years professional experience working in Project Management. DevOps Professional is ideal for professionals who are working in a DevOps environment.
This includes:
DevOps engineers
Agile scrum practitioners
Lean IT professionals
Software or website developers
Project managers.
The above list is a suggestion only; individuals may wish to attend based on their own career aspirations, personal goals or objectives. Delegates may take as few or as many Intermediate qualifications as they require, and to suit their needs.
Module 1 – Course overview and
introduction
Module 2 – DevOps and other
frameworks
Module 3 – DevOps Adoption
Module 4 – The first way: Flow
Module 5 – The second way:
Feedback
Module 6 – The third way:
Continuous learning and experimentation
Module 7 – Information security
and change management
Module 8 – Planning, requirements
and design
Module 9 – Development and
deployment
Module 10 – Operation and Scaling
Module 11 – Continual Improvement
and End-of-Life
Module 12 – Group activities and buzz exercises