SAFe® DevOps

(Certified SAFe® DevOps-Practitioner – SDP)

Including official SAFe® DevOps Certification Exam

Content

To compete in a disruptive global market, every organization needs to deliver valuable technology solutions at the speed of business. This requires a shared DevOps mindset among all the collaborators needed to define, build, test, deploy, and release software-driven systems – not just the engineers operating a Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipeline.

The Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) is the world’s most trusted system for scaling Lean and Agile practices and establishing Business Agility across the entire organization.

While many agile frameworks and methods have been initially designed to be applicable to one or only a few agile teams, most organizations nowadays work in complex systems, with many cross-depending collaborative teams, which in many cases are also geographically dislocated. To bring in the benefits of faster, quality-built-in deliveries, and quick responses to customer demands, this requires a well organised and synchronised system across the whole organisation.

Agile transformation on a large scale can be prone to failures due to a lack of proper understanding of existing processes or rigid legacy structures, and it might lead to agile implementations not yielding to the expected adaptation results.

Applying Lean and Agile principles and practices across all levels within an organization is the first step towards a successful transformation.

SAFe® is a proven, scalable, and configurable Scaled Agile Framework® for agile business transformations. It is apt for any organization, regardless its complexity or size.

Optimizing Value Stream

Delivering fast a valuable solution does not only involve engineers developing software, but it also 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 is relevant to your business. And get the guidance and tools you need to work effectively in remote environments with distributed teams.

SAFe® DevOps Practitioner Certification

As a course participant you qualify for the SAFe® DevOps Practitioner certification from scaledagile.com. The certification exam fee is already included in the course price.

Benefits

Gain the knowledge on what is DevOps and how it enables strategic business objectives
Learn how to use value stream mapping to measure flow and spot bottlenecks in the delivery pipeline
Learn how to incorporate continuous testing and continuous security into the delivery pipeline
Learn how to integrate continuous exploration, integration, and deployment, and release value to end users on demand
Learn how to design and implement an actionable DevOps transformation plan tailored to your organization
Learn how to evaluate and improve your current state using tools like the DevOps Health Radar and Transformation Canvas
Get prepared for the SAFe® DevOps exam and earn the SAFe® DevOps Practitioner certification
Benefit from many practical examples and valuable tips from our experienced and certified trainers
Get better career opportunities

Course Outline

Introducing DevOps

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

Mapping your value stream

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

Gaining alignment with continuous exploration

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

Building quality in with continuous integration

Build continuously
Test end-to-end

Reducing time-to-market with continuous deployment

Release on demand
Monitor for problems
Respond and recover

Delivering business value with the release on demand

Stabilize the Solution
Measure the business value

Taking action

Craft an action plan for your DevOps transformation

Preparation for the SAFe® DevOps certification exam (SDP)

Registration on SAFe® Community Platform
SAFe® DevOps certification exam data and facts
SAFe® DevOps Practitioner certification

The SAFe® DevOps Practitioner certification exam is a web-based exam on SAFe® Community Platform and can be taken any time after the SAFe® DevOps course completion. To access the exam, the participants must register their personal account on the SAFe® Community Platform. We recommend participants to prepare and take the exam as soon as possible after the SAFe® DevOps course (no longer as 30 days after the course completion).

The 45 exam questions are structured in multiple choice or multiple answer format. Multiple answer questions require all selection of all correct answers (no partial credits are given). The exam timebox is 90 minutes.When the exam timebox ends, the exam will be submitted, regardless of the number of questions answered. All unanswered questions will be considered as incorrect. The exam passing rate is 73% (33/45).

The exam will be held in English language.

After successfully passing the SAFe® DevOps Practitioner exam, the participants receive the certification along with 1-year SAFe® Community Platform membership.

Further Information

Who can participate in SAFe® DevOps course?

All are welcome to participate in the SAFe® DevOps course, regardless of the previous knowledge or experience.

This course is primarily aimed at members of Agile teams, Release Train Engineers, Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Development Managers, Engineering Managers, Configuration Managers, Release Managers, Development Leads, Developers, Infrastructure and System Architects, Product Managers and Product Owners, QA Managers, Testers, or any other members of Agile Release Train.

Maximum number of participants: 10
Minimum number of participants: 3

Prerequisites

It is recommended that the course participants have some basic knowledge or experience in:

Agile Fundamentals
Scrum or any other agile framework
Software development, testing, business analysis, product or project management

Participants must attend both days of the SAFe® DevOps course to qualify for the exam.

Technology requirements and set up for online course:

Computer with an up-to-date operating system and up-to-date browser (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, or Safari)
High speed internet access
Speaker and microphone or appropriate headset
Webcam

Duration / Times

2 days
Both days from 9.00 a.m. until 5.00 p.m.

Course Takeaways

SAFe® DevOps Digital Student Workbook
Preparation and eligibility to take the SAFe® DevOps certification exam
One year membership to the SAFe® Community Platform
Certificate of SAFe® DevOps course completion

Teaching Methods in the Course

The SAFe® DevOps course will be carried out by one of our experienced and certified SAFe® Practice Consultants, with a focus not only on theory, but also on sharing practical experiences and practices. This includes: