When you have acquired the required knowledge from this course, you will be able to:

• Understand how the tasks covering specification and verification fit into a DevOps environment.
• Take end-to-end responsibility for your product – from concept to grave.
• Truly understand your customers and validate whether the product fits their needs.
• Find good ways to communicate with everyone involved, from customers to stakeholders and developers.
• Describe and visualize your product in a format that fits your specific situation.
• Understand what software quality means and how to achieve adequate quality with your product.
• Decide adequately which kind of tests the product needs, and understand what you gain from them.
• Set up useful feedback loops, and use them meaningfully.
• Understand which architectural considerations are important in a DevOps environment.

Welcome and Introduction

• Welcome
• Icebreaker
• Let’s Get To Know Each Other
• Best Practices for a Good Online Training How Will We Interact?

Course Introduction

• DASA DevOps Professional: Specify and Verify Course
• Course Learning Outcomes
• DevOps Professional: Specify and Verify and the DASA Competence
• Framework Module Structure
• Course Agenda
• DASA DevOps Certification Scheme

Module 1: Thinking About Quality and Value

• Intent and Context
• Module Objectives
• Topics Covered
• Quality and Value
• DevOps View on Quality Assurance DevOps Approach to Quality Assurance
• Human-Technical Systems
• Key Takeaways
• Module-End Questions

Module 2: Delivering Value

• Intent and Context
• Module Objectives
• Topics Covered
• The Product Lifecycle
• Taking an Economic Perspective Value Stream Mapping
• Key Takeaways
• Module-End Questions

Module 3: Understanding Your Customers

• Intent and Context
• Module Objectives
• Topics Covered
• Customers and Stakeholders
• Identifying and Interacting With Customers Gathering Requirements From
• Stakeholders Key Takeaways
• Module-End Questions

Module 4: Designing the Right Product

• Intent and Context
• Module Objectives
• Topics Covered
• The Right Product
• Lean User Experience
• Structuring Requirements for Products Key Takeaways
• Module-End Questions

Module 5: Architecting for DevOps

• Intent and Context
• Module Objectives
• Topics Covered
• Introduction to Architecture
• Architecture and Teams
• Fundamental Considerations About Architecture Practical Architecture Work
• Key Takeaways
• Module-End Questions

Module 6: Practical Value Assurance in DevOps

• Intent and Context
• Module Objectives
• Topics Covered
• Testing and Other VA Techniques
• How to Test Well
• Common Testing Practices and Approaches Value Assurance in DevOps
• Testing in DevOps
• Key Takeaways
• Module-End Questions

Module 7: Monitoring and Testing in Production

• Intent and Context
• Module Objectives
• Topics Covered
• What Is Monitoring
• Value Assurance in Production Monitoring and Testing Postmortems
• DevOps Approach to Monitoring Key Takeaways
• Module-End Questions

The DASA DevOps Professional – Specify and Verify certification is primarily aimed at:

• Individuals involved in IT development, IT operations, or IT Service Management
• Individuals whose role are affected by DevOps and continuous delivery, such as:
  • DevOps engineers
  • Business Analysts
  • Testers
  • Architects
  • UX and Interaction Designers
  • (aspiring) Product Owners
  • Integration Specialists
  • Operations Managers
  • Incident and Change Managers
  • System and Network Administrators
  • Business Managers

The DevOps Fundamentals exams are delivered by DASA through the DASA Talent Academy platform.

Required: DASA DevOps Fundamentals certificate
Beneficial: Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, Lean, and basic knowledge of specification and testing.

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