Course Overview
This two-day, interactive SAFe® DevOps course helps people across technical, non-technical, and leadership roles work together to optimize 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.
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 optimize their development value stream from end to end. Take this course with the rest of your 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.
Key Learning Areas
- 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 organization
- How to evaluate and improve your current state using tools like the DevOps Health Radar and Transformation Canvas
Course Outline
Topics Covered:
- 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?
What You Will Receive:
- Course materials
- Remote learning via SAFe® Virtual Classrooms
- Access to SAFe® Collaborate, a visual online workspace
- One-year membership to the SAFe® Community Platform
- Access to content, tools, and resources you need to practice SAFe every day
- SAFe DevOps certification exam
Associated Certification:
Certified SAFe® DevOps (SDP)
Exam Details:
- 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 Sections and Percentages
- Introducing DevOps (11%)
- Mapping your value stream (13%)
- Gaining alignment with continuous exploration (31%)
- Building quality in with continuous integration (31%)
- Reducing time-to-market with continuous deployment (4%)
- Delivering business value with release on demand (7%)
- Taking action (3%)
Professional Development Units (PDUs) & Scrum Education Units
- Attendees may be eligible to apply for PDUs below toward their continuing education requirements with the Project Management Institute (PMI) for PMP, PgMP, and PMI-ACP certifications
- Attendees may be eligible to apply for SEUs under Category C, toward earning or renewing their CSP through the Scrum Alliance
Professional Development Units & Scrum Education Units
Activity Number | SAFeDevOps | Duration | 2 days | |
PMI Certification | Technical | Leadership | Strategic | Total |
PMP® | 13.50 | 1.25 | 0.25 | 15.00 |
PgMP® | 13.50 | 1.25 | 0.25 | 15.00 |
PMI_RMP® | 0.00 | 1.25 | 0.25 | 1.50 |
PMI_SP® | 0.00 | 1.25 | 0.25 | 1.50 |
PMI_ACP® | 13.50 | 1.25 | 0.25 | 15.00 |
PfMP® | 0.00 | 1.25 | 0.25 | 1.50 |
PMI_PBA® | 0.00 | 1.25 | 0.25 | 1.50 |
Who Benefits
Includes current and aspiring:
- Members of an Agile Release Train Development Managers
- Engineering Managers
- Configuration Managers
- Release Managers
- Development Leads
- Developers
- UI/UX Designers
- Infrastructure Architects
- System Architects
- Product Managers
- Product Owners
- System Administrators
- DBAs
- InfoSec
- QA Managers
- Testers
- Release Train Engineers
- Scrum
- Masters
- Team Leads
- Business Analysts
- Agile Coaches
- SAFe Program Consultants
- Consultants
- Architects
- Engineers
- Developers
- Directors
- Quality Managers
Prerequisites
DevOps, development, or operations experience is preferred but not required.