DevOps Foundations: Transforming the Enterprise

Course details

As your organization evolves, your IT practices can't remain stagnant. Growing organizations are faced with a variety of new and unique concerns: legacy programs, multiple vendors, and more. In this course, learn how to adopt and scale DevOps—a set of practices you may already be familiar with—in an enterprise environment. Instructor Mirco Hering explains what makes enterprise-level DevOps unique and steps through how to jump-start your own transformation. Learn how to analyze your application portfolio and identify a minimum viable cluster for your DevOps adoption. Explore value stream mapping and the different types of enterprise-level DevOps tools. Plus, learn how to include vendors in your DevOps journey, steer your transformation, and make a central DevOps team work for your business.

Learning objectives
Why DevOps at the enterprise level is different
Analyzing your application portfolio
Identifying a minimum viable cluster (MVC)
Creating and using value stream maps
Tooling at the enterprise level
Including vendors in your DevOps journey
Using the Deming cycle
DevOps organizational patterns

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Transforming your organization

1. Why DevOps at the Enterprise level

02 - Why is the enterprise level different
03 - The role of corporate culture
04 - The three dimensions of enterprise DevOps
05 - Transformation is a continual process

2. Where to Start

06 - Analyze your application portfolio
07 - Find a minimum viable cluster (MVC)
08 - Use the MVC to uplift capabilities

3. Value Stream Mapping

09 - What is a value stream map (VSM)
10 - Creating value stream maps
11 - Using value stream maps

4. Tooling at the Enterprise Level

12 - Types of DevOps tools
13 - Making the right choices
14 - Central vs. federated approaches

5. Vendor Management

15 - Include vendors in the journey
16 - Contracts and incentives
17 - Implement engineering standards

6. Steering the Transformation

18 - Use the Deming cycle
19 - Transaction costs and batch sizes
20 - A transformation scorecard

7. Organizational Structure

21 - DevOps organizational patterns
22 - Using a central team
23 - How to make a DevOps team work for you

Conclusion

24 - Next steps