Product: DASA DevOps Fundamentals

  • DASA DevOps Fundamentals Certification Program

    Build a strong foundation in DevOps. The DASA DevOps Fundamentals Certification gives you a comprehensive understanding of DevOps principles, concepts, and culture. You’ll gain the skills, mindset, and behaviors needed to improve collaboration, increase agility, and accelerate digital transformation in your organization.

  • DevOps Can Replace Project and Program Management (Myth 2)

    Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of blogs discussing five current myths about DevOps and has been created by Lawrie Kirk, our DASA Ambassador located in Australia. Lawrie has written this blog from the perspective of his experience as a consultant, program, and project manager. We look forward to the discussion that…

  • We Do Not Need Structure in a DevOps Environment (Myth 1)

    Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of blogs discussing five current myths about DevOps. The blogs have been compiled by our DASA Ambassadors, Frank Faber in the Netherlands, and Lawrie Kirk in Australia. Both Frank and Lawrie have written this blog from the perspective of their experiences as consultants and program and…

  • Why You Should Improve the Flow of Work

    The most important aspect of working with DevOps principles is to improve the flow of work through the organization. In the course of automating, solving problems, increasing deployment frequency, and shortening processes, you need to inevitably remove waste from the service creation and delivery system. As a result of removing waste, you will be able…

  • How to Lead in Today’s Disruptive Dysfunctional World

    Take a look at the world around us, what do you see? Dysfunction all around. Constant Change. Perpetual disruption. Let me share with you what I see: When looking for the root cause or asking the question “why” we are failing. The answer can be summarized in three words: culture, leadership, and communication. Culture Culture…

  • How to Define DevOps

    Hundreds of definitions exist for DevOps. Here, we have captured three in which we highlighted essential elements by underlying them. As you can see, these elements stand for something larger than an intangible but also applicable to enterprise-wide IT improvement and continuous innovation of the IT capability. Key points: Source: DASA DevOps Fundamentals coursebook.

  • The Business Benefits of DevOps

    We live in interesting times in which innovations emerge at an increasing pace. Many startups and new companies have completely displaced or destabilized existing industries. Many organizations have started to tear down the walls between business and IT, and even thicker walls between technical departments within IT. They have replaced their technical departments with organizational…

  • Why T-Shaped Professionals Are Desirable

    A T-shaped person has deep knowledge/skills in one area and a broad base of general supporting knowledge/skills. If you represent this depth and breadth visually, you get a “T” shape:  Source: https://collegeinfogeek.com/become-t-shaped-person/ The exact details will vary from person to person. The T-shaped person is an improvement on the classic saying “Jack of all trades,…

  • The Importance of Behaviour in a DevOps Environment

    The behavior of people shows the culture of an organization. Which behaviors can you define, which would fit a DevOps environment? Did you think of these terms? These are all relevant statements, but none of them is real behavior. Try to define behavior in terms of “what you see someone do or hear someone say.”…