DASA DevOps Coach

Do you know you can become a transformational leader? That,

• you have the ability to invoke cultural, agile, and DevOps growth in organizations
• you can guide IT teams to optimize results by focusing on human factors

Then now is your chance to become part of a select group of DevOps Coaches and earn a renowned DASA certification.

Join this intense course with the co-author of DASA DevOps Coach Master trainer: Akhilesh Chaturvedi.

The DASA DevOps Coach™ certification is designed to prepare you to become a catalyst for change for high performing individuals, teams, and organizations. DevOps Coaches understand how to advocate and embed DevOps principles in its true spirit and play a crucial role in helping build high performing self-organizing teams.

Like all other hyper-growth trends in the IT industry, the adoption of DevOps is not immune to potential misunderstandings and misconceptions. Besides relevant tooling and technology, DevOps predominantly entails a cultural shift towards a new mindset, behaviors, a new organization, and a new way of working.

DASA DevOps Coaches within organizations make remarkable contributions on the ground in developing team members and teams into high performing teams with a new mindset, behaviors, organization, and a way of working. The objective of the Coach is to help teams develop their DevOps skills, knowledge, and behavior in order to rapidly become self-sufficient and fully leverage the benefits of DevOps.

Coaches promote and facilitate teams that make them more competent and fulfilled so that they are proficient to contribute to their organization and find meaning in DevOps adoption. As a coach, you help to speed up delivery in teams, create more transparency, and build a continuous improvement mindset. At the Organization level, you provide strategic coaching and help organizations achieve their transformational goals.

The DASA DevOps Coach program is designed to prepare professionals for working as an effective DevOps Coach. During this intense, activity-based course you become familiar with the characteristics and traits of a successful DevOps Coach, learn about DASA’s coaching model and apply the DASA DevOps Competence Model in teams and organizations.

Module 1: DevOps Journey – A Quick Preview

• Traditional to Agile to DevOps
• DASA DevOps Principles

Module 2: DevOps Coach Performance and Change

• Coaching for Performance
• Coaching For Change

Module 3: Being a DevOps Coach

• Foundational Competencies: Presence, Listening, Questioning, Direct Communication
• Enabling Competencies: Contracting, Influencing, Feedback
• Coaching Modes: Coaching, Mentoring, Consulting, Facilitation
• Switch Between Coaching Modes

Module 4: Team Coaching

• DevOps Organization and Teams
• Team Development
• Gemba Walk
• DevOps Team Coaching

Module 5: DevOps Transformation Journey

• Transformation – The Seven Steps
• Value Stream Analysis and Architecture
• Automation and Tooling

The DASA DevOps Coach certification adds value to individuals involved in IT development, operations, or service management. It may be particularly beneficial to DevOps professionals with a history of helping organizations transition to DevOps – preferably guided by the DASA DevOps competency model.

The DASA DevOps Coach certification target audience includes but is not limited to:

• Lean, Agile and Business Coaches
• Business Analysts
• Business and IT Managers
• DevOps Team Members
• Enterprise Architects
• Executives
• Information Managers
• Project Managers

When you have acquired the required knowledge from this DevOps certification program, you will be able to:

• Recollect the knowledge of DevOps and connect the role of a DevOps Coach to the DASA DevOps Principles.
• Comprehend the mindset and role of a DevOps Coach.
• Understand the characteristics, structures, and life-cycles of DevOps teams and how to Coach them to high-performance.
• Use the GROW model as an effective tool during the entire coaching process.
• Discover and learn the art of “Feedback” and creating a feedback culture using various “Feedback” models.
• Understand DevOps transformation mastery.
• Distinguish the responsibilities of “DevOps Coach” and “DevOps Leader”.
• Understand that DASA DevOps Coaching is for continuous “Performance” and “Change” – and understand underlying the metrics.
• Apply skills, techniques, and mindset shifts and deep dive into inner and outer competencies focusing both on what you do, and how you are being.
• Understand and utilize coaching skills and knowledge to create high performing teams that are resilient, innovative, resourceful, and ready for their continuous improvements.
• Understand the 4 different key modes: Coaching, Mentoring, Facilitation & Consulting. Learn when, why, and how to apply the right mode.
• Apply learnings to build a business case and plan for the DevOps Transformation journey.
• Interpret the DevOps organizational goals and establish the critical role high performing teams have in this.