Boca Raton, FL -- (ReleaseWire) -- 11/09/2017 -- The DevOps Institute (DOI), the Continuous Learning Community around emerging DevOps practices, education and certification, is proud to announce the launch of a new non- certification course: Value Stream Mapping for DevOps (VSM). Value Stream Mapping is a key practice for increasing flow, eliminating waste and understanding how IT delivers value to its customers. VSM for DevOps is the first in a series of non-certification "Drilldown" course offered by the DevOps Institute and is a complement to its line of DevOps Practitioner® certification series courses. All courses are delivered by DOI's global channel of Registered Education Partners.

The Value Stream Mapping for DevOps course provides a practical understanding and hands-on experience with value stream mapping. The course was authored by Mike Orzen (@MikeOrzen), a prominent Lean IT thought leader and author of two publications: Lean IT and the Lean IT Field Guide.

"DevOps is the next step in creating flow across and beyond the IT value stream," says Mike Orzen. "The value stream is all of the steps that are currently performed to deliver products and services to end-users and customers - whether they add value or not. Value stream mapping has been identified as a critical skill for organizations adopting a DevOps approach."

Developers and operational staff, IT managers, project managers, continuous delivery architects, security professionals, business stakeholders, and anyone involved in defining a DevOps strategy and program will find this course particularly helpful as they explore key Value Stream Mapping for DevOps topics, including:

Value stream mapping methods
Understanding how value stream mapping applies to DevOps
Learning to value stream map by doing
Common mistakes when using value stream mapping
Tools to apply now

"We are delighted to announce that our first Drilldown course is Value Stream Mapping for DevOps," says Jayne Groll, CEO of the DevOps Institute. "To better understand DevOps, you need to first understand Lean principles in order to understand flow. Lean helps organizations manage and improve how we create and flow customer value with the least amount of effort."

The DevOps Institute will be developing other Drilldown courses in the near future. This series of non-certification workshops "drills down" more deeply into a topic or practice that may have been introduced in another course. Drilldown courses are very focused and provide more prescriptive guidance and practical experience for the learner. Since these courses are designed as complementary "plugins" to its existing certification portfolio, DOI's global network of education partners will offer the Drilldown courses as bundles or as stand-alone offerings.

About Mike Orzen
With a consulting and coaching career spanning more than 20 years, Mike Orzen has gathered a unique blend of lean, IT, healthcare, and operations experience that he uses to coach organizations pursuing enterprise excellence. His personable approach and people-first philosophy have inspired leaders and empowered workforces to successfully apply conscious awareness, lean management, and enterprise excellence practices in many complex work environments.

He is the co-author of Lean IT: Enabling and Sustaining Your Lean Transformation winner of a Shingo Research Award, and The Lean IT Field Guide. He holds degrees from Stanford University, the University of Oregon, and is certified in management accounting, production and inventory control, project management, Agile, and Lean IT. Mike teaches with LEI, the Shingo Institute, and The Ohio State University Fisher School of Business. He helps companies on lean journeys through Mike Orzen & Associates.

About The DevOps Institute
The DevOps Institute is the global continuous learning community for emerging DevOps practices. DevOps Institute's vision is to facilitate a community where members have access to the most innovative, inspirational and transformational DevOps content, courses and certifications around emerging DevOps practices and principles. We strive to provide content that inspires discussion, collaboration, and transformation.

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Successful candidates of the new the DevOps Practitioner role-based course will earn the Continuous Delivery Architect (CDA) certification

Boca Raton, FL -- (ReleaseWire) -- 09/07/2017 -- The DevOps Institute (DOI), the continuous learning community around emerging DevOps practices, training and certification, today announced it has launched a new competency-based certification: Continuous Delivery Architecture (CDA) in partnership with Pearson, the world's learning company. Built upon the principles and practices of Pearson's bestselling book "Continuous Delivery" by Jez Humble and David Farley and the "Continuous Delivery LiveLessons" video course by Jez Humble, the CDA course equips IT professionals with the broad-based competencies necessary to architect and orchestrate effective and efficient automated deployment pipelines. CDA is the newest certification in DOI's DevOps Practitioner® series and will be delivered by DOI's global channel of Registered Education Partners.

"Through our lifelong learning partnership with the DevOps Institute, we're harnessing the power of digital learning to equip IT professionals with the knowledge and skills they need to increase their employability in today's highly competitive workforce," said Chris Guzikowski, Executive Editor, Pearson.

The course author is Marc Hornbeek, a well-respected IT professional and IEEE Engineer award recipient. While the core content is derived from Pearson's "Continuous Delivery" book and video course, Hornbeek supplemented the concepts with emerging practices such as containers and microservices. The result is a proven set of practices that any Continuous Delivery Architect could apply to the automation of any deployment pipeline or automated toolchain.

As part of the Pearson partnership, each learner will be provided digital access to the "Continuous Delivery" ebook and video LiveLessons. The course materials will also include practical artifacts, templates and lexicons collected by Mr. Hornbeek to assist learners post-class. The course culminates in a certification exam administered by PEOPLECERT, DOI's examination partner. Successful exam candidates will be designated as "Continuous Delivery Architects" and will be issued a certificate and digital badge.

"The purpose of this course and its associated exam is to impart comprehensive knowledge of Continuous Delivery vocabulary, principles, practices, automation and value," said Hornbeek. "CDA is intended for development, quality assurance, security and operational professionals who are engaged in end-to-end DevOps software development from idea conception through live production operations."

The course will explore key Continuous Delivery Architecture topics, including

Goals, history, terminology, and pipeline
The importance, practices, and transformation of a DevOps collaborative culture
Design practices, such as modular design and microservices
Continuous Integration (CI), such as version control, builds, and remediation
Tenets and best practices of Continuous Testing (CT)
Continuous Delivery and Deployment (CD): packaging, containers, and release
Continuous Monitoring (CM): monitoring and analysis infrastructure, process, and apps
Infrastructure and tools: frameworks, tools, and infrastructure as code
Security Assurance: DevSecOps
The opportunity to hear and share real life scenarios

This course will be particularly relevant to automation architects, release engineers, infrastructure teams, security professionals, quality assurance and other roles that contribute to the software delivery value stream.

"By partnering with Pearson, we are able to leverage their extensive expertise in new learning tools and educational training materials," said Jayne Groll, CEO of the DevOps Institute. "With this course, DevOps Institute candidates will be able to better understand tangible techniques for delivering high-quality software faster and more frequently."

For more information, visit: http://devopsinstitute.com/courses/#CDA.

About Marc Hornbeek
Marc Hornbeek is a DevOps consultant with over 39-years experience architecting, designing, developing, and managing high-performance solutions for IT and engineering infrastructures. He is a regular speaker, blogger, and author of the DevOps Continuous Delivery Architecture (CDA) course and the DevOps Test Engineering (DTE) course. He is a 41-year member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and awarded "2016 Outstanding Engineer" by the IEEE Region 6 Western United States for his career contributions to the field of automation applied to networks, protocols, testing, labs, and DevOps.

About Pearson
Pearson is the world's learning company, with expertise in educational courseware and assessment, and a range of teaching and learning services powered by technology. Our mission is to help people make progress through access to better learning. We believe that learning opens up opportunities, creating fulfilling careers and better lives.

For more, visit http://www.pearson.com.

Contact for Pearson
Scott Overland, 202-909-4520
scott.overland@pearson.com

About The DevOps Institute
The DevOps Institute is the continuous learning community around emerging DevOps practices. Working with recognized thought leaders and strategic examination partner PEOPLECERT, the DevOps Institute is setting the quality standard for DevOps competency-based qualifications.

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Successful candidates of the new the DevOps Practitioner® role-based course will earn the DevOps Leader (DOL) certification.

Boca Raton, FL -- (ReleaseWire) -- 07/13/2017 -- The DevOps Institute (DOI), the continuous learning community around emerging DevOps practices, training and certification, is proud to announce the launch of a new certification: DevOps Leader (DOL). This unique course provides the insights, techniques and innovative approaches needed by modern IT leaders involved in a DevOps cultural transformation within their organization. DevOps Leader is the newest certification in the DevOps Institute's DevOps Practitioner® certification series and will be delivered by DOI's global channel of Registered Education Partners.

The DevOps Leader course was authored by Mustafa Kapadia (@MKapadiaTweets), a well-respected DevOps service line leader and digital transformation expert. Kapadia designed the course around the ideal DevOps Leader--a tactical or strategic individual who helps design, influence, implement or motivate the cultural transformation proven to be a critical success factor in DevOps adoption. The most successful DevOps leaders understand the human dynamics of cultural change and are equipped with practices, methods, and tools to engage people across the DevOps spectrum. The need for transformational leaders was also cited in the recently published 2017 State of DevOps Report from Puppet Labs and DORA and is addressed in this course.

"Through DevOps, organizations can bring software to market faster, with better quality, fewer defects, reduced risk and shortened lead times," says Kapadia. "This course is essential for any IT professional involved in transforming their enterprises' digital strategy."

IT team leaders, managers, directors, business stakeholders, practitioners and change agents, tool providers and systems integrators, and DevOps consultants will find this course particularly helpful as they explore key DevOps leadership topics, including:

- DevOps and time to market
- Business and IT perspectives
- Key differences between DevOps IT and traditional IT
- Planning and organization
- Performance and culture
- Measurement differences
- Becoming a DevOps organization - design principles
- Focusing on what matters
- Organizing work
- Sharing information
- Metrics
- Value stream mapping
- Squad model
- Squads
- Tribes
- Chapters
- Guilds
- Managing culture change
- Types of culture
- Types of changes
- Managing change
- Popular tools and key practices

"The DevOps Leader course exemplifies the true meaning of being an effective DevOps Leader," said Jayne Groll, CEO of the DevOps Institute. "This is not your typical leadership management class. The content represents the most current and emerging practices that are delivering real value to real organizations. After taking DOL, candidates will be equipped to lead an innovative DevOps transformation within their organization, which will enable them to deliver high-quality software faster and more frequently."

For more information, visit http://devopsinstitute.com/courses/#DOL.

About Mustafa Kapadia
Mustafa Kapadia is a Service Line Leader for IBM's Digital Transformation DevOps practice, a business advisory practice focused on helping large enterprises transform their software and application delivery. He is an expert in DevOps, cloud, mobile, analytics, application development, outsourcing, and offshoring. Prior to joining IBM, Mustafa was a management consultant with Deloitte's Strategy & Operations practice. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, is an avid blogger (when time permits), a speaker, and an advisor to startup companies.

About The DevOps Institute
The DevOps Institute is the global learning community around emerging DevOps practices and is bringing enterprise level DevOps training and certification to the IT market. Working with digital influencers from our Board of Regents, strategic examination partner PEOPLECERT, and the DevOps Express vendor consortium, DOI has set the quality standard for relevant, current and sustainable DevOps course content and certification.

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Successful candidates of the new the role-based course will earn the DevOps Test Engineer (DTE) certification.

Boca Raton, FL -- (ReleaseWire) -- 02/15/2017 -- The DevOps Institute (DOI) is proud to announce the newest course in its DevOps Practitioner series: DevOps Test Engineering (DTE). DTE is unique in the testing training and certification market as it is the first course available that addresses testing in a DevOps environment. This includes the active use of test automation, testing earlier in the development cycle, and instilling testing skills in developers, quality assurance, security, and operational teams. DTE is relevant for any modern IT professional involved in defining or deploying a DevOps testing strategy for their organization.

Undeniably, testing is a vitally important component of any successful IT release. Without the knowledge of proper testing, software can—sometimes very publicly—fail, causing unnecessary downtime, loss of customer trust, and decreased revenues, not to mention perception of a company's reliability. However, time-to-market pressure are counterintuitive to traditional software testing best practices. Compounding this balance, historically training and certification in testing has been for software developers.

With the advent of DevOps and the movement to break down silos between developers and operations, it becomes critically important that all members of an IT team—regardless of what tools they use, or role they play—understand the essentials of testing.

"Testing engineering is the backbone of DevOps and the primary key for successful DevOps pipelines," says Marc Hornbeek, author of the DTE course. "Anyone serious about DevOps will benefit from the comprehensive understanding of DevOps Test Engineering provided by this course."

In the DTE course, participants experience an inclusive learning environment focusing on the methodology required for a DevOps culture. Candidates learn:

- The purpose, benefits, concepts and vocabulary of DevOps testing

- How DevOps testing differs from other types of testing

- The importance all IT roles play within testing

- DevOps testing strategies, best practices, infrastructure, tools, automation, and results analysis

- Strategies for selecting test tools and implementing test automation

- Integration of DevOps testing into Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery workflow

The audience for DTE includes quality assurance managers, testers and quality assurance teams, software engineers, software developers, DevOps engineers, IT managers, project managers, release managers and delivery staff, maintenance and support staff, as well as anyone involved in testing tool selection.

Successfully passing the certification exam leads to the candidate's designation as a certified DevOps Test Engineer (DTE). The certification is governed and maintained by DOI, and exams are delivered through DOI's strategic partner PEOPLECERT, an independent, global examination partner.

The entire DevOps Practitioner series of courses supports IT roles for today's enterprises. Each new DevOps certification course is focused towards continually addressing the emerging and growing needs of IT professionals and organizations worldwide.

Successive to DOI's flagship entry level course, DevOps Foundation®, and the new DTE course, the DevOps Practitioner series also includes:

- Certified Agile Service Manager (CASM)® - Available now
- Certified Agile Process Owner (CAPO)® - Available now
- Continuous Delivery Architecture (CDA) - Expected delivery (Q2 2017)
- DevSecOps Engineering (DSOE) - Expected delivery (Q2 2017)
- DevOps Leader - Expected delivery (Q2 2017)
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) - Expected delivery (Q3 2017)
- DevOps Professional - Expected delivery (Q3 2017)

In addition, learners who have passed DOI's qualifications will be awarded a digital badge as a means of showcasing their achievements. Learners can share their success online by displaying digital badges via social media sites.

About The Course Author
Marc Hornbeek is a DevOps consultant with over 39 years experience architecting, designing, developing, and managing high-performance solutions for IT and engineering infrastructures. He is a regular speaker, blogger, and author of the DevOps Continuous Delivery Architecture (CDA) course and the DevOps Test Engineering (DTE) course. He is a 41-year member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and awarded "2016 Outstanding Engineer" by the IEEE Region 6 Western United States for his career contributions to the field of automation applied to networks, protocols, testing, labs, and DevOps.

About The DevOps Institute
The DevOps Institute (DOI) is the global learning community around emerging DevOps practices and is bringing enterprise level DevOps training and certification to the IT market. Working with recognized thought leaders, strategic examination partner PEOPLECERT, and DevOps Express, DOI has set the quality standard for relevant, current and sustainable DevOps course content and certification.

For more information about DOI, visit http://devopsinstitute.com/.

About The DevOps Institute's Registered Education Partners
DOI Registered Education Partners (REPs) are a rapidly growing international community of training, consultancy, and tool providers currently located in over 20 countries. REPs are assessed and accredited by PEOPLECERT, an independent, global examination partner, and are equipped with licensed go-to-market instructor and learner course materials from DOI.

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