DASA DevOps Leader™
This four-week course (1 virtual live session per week) is designed for those taking on the role of DevOps Leader, tasked with spearheading DevOps initiatives, crafting frameworks for scalability, and driving maximum business value. The program helps understand leadership in the context of DevOps, discusses leadership development models, building teams, and transforming the organization.
★★★★★
“One of the best and most comprehensive courses of the past 10 years.”
Certification Options
Contact us to get further information about upcoming courses and in-house training options.
The Cost of Ineffective DevOps Leadership
Without the skills to lead DevOps transformations, your team may face challenges in cultural adoption, project delays, and resistance to change. Without clear leadership, you may miss the opportunity to align DevOps with business objectives, limiting the potential value that DevOps can bring to your organization.
Drive Maximum Business Value
With your DASA DevOps Leader Certification, you’ll be able to lead your team through DevOps transformations with confidence, align DevOps initiatives with business goals, and foster a culture that thrives on collaboration and continuous improvement. You’ll inspire your team and ensure that your DevOps strategies deliver measurable value to your organization.
Lead Cultural Change with Confidence
Guide your team through cultural transformation and foster a collaborative, innovative DevOps environment.
Align DevOps with Business Strategy
Ensure your DevOps initiatives are aligned with broader business goals to drive sustainable growth and efficiency.
Deliver Real Business Value
Use your leadership skills to ensure that DevOps transformations deliver measurable value and performance improvements.
Join a Movement of Professionals Driving Change
Future-Proof Your Career
Stay relevant and competitive by mastering DevOps Leadership.
Boost Your Impact
Lead your team toward faster product delivery, innovation, and security.
Gain an Industry-Recognized Certification
Earn a credential that is trusted worldwide and recognized by top organizations.
Learning Objectives
When you have acquired the required knowledge from this certification program, you will be able to:
- Recollect key drivers for digital disruption, understand the role of DevOps and DevOps Leaders, and own your digital leadership journey.
- Use contemporary leadership styles and practices in a DevOps environment to lead transformation with a focus on the key DASA DevOps principles, values, and practices.
- Create a value case, and scope of your DevOps transformations.
- Identify the key ingredients that leaders need to invest in creating the right “smell of the place,” and developing a high-performance culture in your organization.
- Analyze how to change traditional “Business vs. IT” operating models to DevOps-supporting ones.
- Optimize between team autonomy and ownership on the one hand, and architectural, technical, and organizational constraints on the other hand to manage quality, IT risk, and compliance in a DevOps organization.
- Compare and contrast personal and organizational leadership patterns and anti-patterns in the various stages of a DevOps transformation.
Certification Details
Prerequisites
The course aims at (prospective) managers and leaders who have working experience or interest in taking a (formal or informal) leadership role to help teams and organizations to transform—grow, accelerate, increase their performance, and get more business value out of IT.
Certification
DevOps culture requires better leadership capabilities. Leaders who make improvements will foster a healthy environment conducive to change. It is crucial for DevOps adoption to have a DevOps Leader to assist in developing, influencing, implementing, or motivating a cultural transformation. This is the best catalyst for becoming a great leader.
As a DASA DevOps Leader™, you’ll be able to practice leadership values alongside like-minded DevOps leaders and also lead, drive, and support a successful DevOps transformation in practice. In this course, you will be introduced to state-of-the-art and practical examples as well as key notions and principles that will inspire and challenge you to transform your opinion into useful strategies.
DASA DevOps Leader certification™ will examine the essential role of CIO’s in leading, shaping and managing the digital business and provide an understanding of how modern enterprise architecture is the best opportunity for CIO’s to manage digital transformation, with a constant focus on creating value. It will also examine how CIO’s can use technology to change long-standing revenue models and operational structures across business functions.
The evaluation process is the last stage in the certification that will equip you with the skills necessary to overcome obstacles in cultural transformation. Thanks to this DevOps leader training, you will have the ability to think critically about the best leadership techniques and style for your particular situation and organization.
Audience
- Anyone starting or leading a move towards increased reliability
- Anyone interested in modern IT leadership and organizational change approaches
- Business Managers
- Business Stakeholders
- Change Agents
- Consultants
- DevOps Practitioners
- IT Directors
- IT Managers
- IT Team Leaders
- Product Owners
- Scrum Masters
- Software Engineers
- Site Reliability Engineers
- System Integrators
- Tool Providers
Course Curriculum
The course is developed around DASA’s research on state of the art and state of the practice examples on why DevOps transformations fail or succeed. This research, bundled with a toolkit for kick-starting successful DevOps transformations, and calibrating the progress during the transformation phases, will dramatically increase your chances of success.
Module 1: DevOps and Building High-Performance Digital Organizations
The module emphasizes the core concepts of DevOps, change management, and the role leaders play in leading DevOps transformation. This knowledge will enable you to analyze existing market trends in digital disruption, discuss the impact of these trends on a typical organization, and understand the urgency for digital transformation for organizations to remain competitive.
Module 2: Defining DevOps Leadership
The module emphasizes contemporary leadership and management styles and practices. This knowledge will enable you to examine, evaluate, and adopt the best leadership styles and practices during a DevOps transformation. In other words, the module will empower you to start acting as a DevOps Leader.
Module 3: Shaping the DevOps Transformation
The module emphasizes defining the ‘Why’ of the DevOps transformation and explains various approaches to define the objectives, value, and scope of this transformation. This knowledge will enable you to create an effective change story for the DevOps transformation. The story that you would like to lead and create the required climate in your organization for the upcoming change.
Module 4: Creating Conditions for Success – People and Culture
The module emphasizes creating specific conditions from the people’s perspective to increase the success of the DevOps transformation. It highlights key characteristics of a culture in which individuals thrive and contribute to becoming a High-Performance Digital Organization. This knowledge will enable you to determine what talent management strategies and leadership practices you should adopt for your DevOps transformation to be most effective.
Module 5: Creating Conditions for Success – Processes and Governance
The module emphasizes creating specific conditions from the process and governance perspective to increase the success of the DevOps transformation. It highlights key characteristics of how to set up an organization thriving on autonomous, end-to-end responsible product teams for generating as much business value for the organization as possible. Business-IT barriers, complex or bureaucratic governance structures, or other constraints that slow down the flow of work do not exist in such organizations and their processes. This knowledge will enable you to create the right structure and way of working for your High-Performance Digital organization based on proven DevOps practices.
Module 6: Creating Conditions for Success – Architecture and Technology
The module emphasizes creating specific conditions from the IT architecture and technology perspective to increase the success of the DevOps transformation. It highlights key characteristics of how organizations benefit from modern IT infrastructure, continuous delivery, and scalable modern software architectures. The module also explains how best to optimize between autonomy at the (DevOps) team level and at the centralized governance, rules, and regulations level to ensure high-quality solutions. This knowledge will enable you to find a balance in your DevOps organization for leveraging state-of-the-art technology and ways of working on the one hand, and proven metrics, governance systems, and built-in quality controls on the other hand.
Module 7: Leading Successful Transformations
The module emphasizes creating key organizational culture preconditions for a successful DevOps Transformation and following the required steps to effectively bootstrap this transformation. Insights into the organization’s status quo (in relationship to the goals and ambitions of the transformation) is equally important as building an effective transformation team. This knowledge will enable you to successfully get a DevOps transformation off the ground by adopting proven change management and leadership practices.
Module 8: Putting it into Action
The module emphasizes what leaders should do during their DevOps transformation to deal with change management and conduct proper stakeholder management. Transformations often result in unforeseen responses from people, and everybody responds differently to change. This knowledge will enable you to understand what makes people tick and how best to communicate and collaborate with them to drive a DevOps transformation successfully.
Already DASA DevOps Leader Certified? Update your LinkedIn Profile
Certification and Duration
| Certificate | DASA DevOps Leader |
| Duration in hours | 32 hours |
Assessment Details
The DASA DevOps Leader assessment is based on building a transformation plan and presenting/defending this plan with two independent Assessors from the pool of highly experienced senior professionals who have led and been part of similar transformations before.
The plan that you develop will require you to apply the relevant frameworks that are covered during the course while building a well thought through transformation journey covering various dimensions of the transformation.
This assessment approach is grounded in the experiential learning and activity-based learning philosophies, focused on learning through reflection. Participants are encouraged to begin constructing their plan from week 1 of the program, while continuing to add to it during the entire 8-week course.
Accessing Your Certificate
All certificates and badges are issues through Accredible. You will receive an email with your download link in the days following your exam.
How to Become a Certified DevOps Leader with DASA
In 3 steps, you can gain the skills you need to lead the future.
Step 1
Enroll in the DASA DevOps Leader Certification Course
Sign up for this four-week course designed to equip you with the leadership skills necessary to drive DevOps initiatives and deliver maximum business value.
Step 2
Develop Strategic Leadership to Drive Transformation
Understand your role within the context of DevOps, focusing on leadership development, team-building, and organizational transformation.
Step 3
Complete a Capstone Project to Demonstrate Your Leadership
Apply what you’ve learned by completing a hands-on capstone project, demonstrating your ability to lead DevOps transformations and drive real-world business impact.
We Understand the Challenges of Staying Ahead
We understand how challenging it can be to manage complex platform engineering projects, especially when scalability, security, and reliability are on the line. That’s why we’ve helped thousands of professionals just like you gain the skills they need to thrive. With our globally recognized certification, you can rest assured that you’ll be learning from the best.
What’s Your DevOps IQ?
Assess your readiness for DevOps success with our free scorecard—identify strengths, uncover gaps, and drive improvement.
Quickly identify critical areas for improvement, focusing on attitude, behavior, and team culture.
— Marian Draganov, T-Systems
“This course taught me how to frame the DevOps transformation, and how to articulate the key ingredients for the transformation journey in high-performing organizations. One of the best and most comprehensive courses of the past 10 years.”
Olivier Jara Phillips
Country Head at HCLTech
Further Reading
Our Latest Insights
Join DASA
DASA has developed a flexible approach to membership to suit the size and requirements of each member organization.