DevOps Leader (DOL) Certification Training Course
Length
2 days / 2 weeks
Price
$1899
Days
Mon - Fri
Why Choose This Course
DevOps doesn’t succeed on tools alone. It lives or dies on leadership, culture, and the ability to mobilize people across development and operations. DevOps Leader (DOL) is an instructor-led training course designed for professionals who want to lead a DevOps evolution with confidence. You’ll learn how to frame the change, align stakeholders, and design the operating model that supports fast, secure delivery. In practice, that means applying proven approaches such as transformational leadership, value stream thinking, and evidence-based improvement so teams can deliver outcomes, not just outputs.
Across the course, you explore what modern DevOps looks like in real organisations: how to create psychological safety, challenge unhelpful mental models, and use storytelling to communicate a clear vision. You’ll work with practical tools including value stream mapping, the Improvement Kata, and metrics that drive learning rather than target-chasing. You’ll also see how governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) fit within DevOps ways of working—so you can move fast without letting risk management lag behind.
This DevOps certification course prepares you to lead change in the real world. You’ll leave with actionable templates, facilitation techniques, and a shared vocabulary to guide conversations with executives, product owners, SREs, engineers, and change agents. The content aligns to the official DevOps Leader body of knowledge and certification blueprint. A certificate of course attendance is included.
Prerequisites
- There are no formal prerequisites for this course.
Exam
Candidates can achieve this certification by passing the following exam(s).
- PeopleCert DevOps Leadership Exam
Books
- DevOps Leader (DOL) course material included.
Delivery
- Live virtual online training attend in real-time from anywhere
Skills Gained
- Lead a DevOps transformation using transformational leadership practices and behaviors.
- Apply the Golden Circle and the Lean Strategic Change Canvas to frame and socialise change.
- Build psychological safety and address cognitive bias to improve decision-making and learning.
- Align governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) with DevOps ways of working.
- Map current and future value streams to expose bottlenecks and improve flow.
- Define meaningful metrics that promote learning and avoid measure-to-target pitfalls.
- Use the Improvement Kata to design safe-to-try experiments and iterate toward outcomes.
- Design Target Operating Models and team structures that support high-velocity delivery.
- Apply insights from Conway’s Law to evolve architecture and communication paths.
- Communicate an inspiring vision through effective storytelling and stakeholder engagement.
- Maintain energy and momentum through change by reinforcing wins and enabling continuous improvement.
- Collaborate across roles (product, engineering, SRE, security, operations) with a shared DevOps vocabulary.
Audience
Course Schedule & Pricing
Choose the schedule that fits your life — all options include full course materials & certification support
Full-time immersion for rapid certification readiness.
Balance your career while you upgrade your skills.
Maximum flexibility for busy working professionals.
Outline
- What DevOps means today and why it matters for time-to-value
- Transformational leadership principles and behaviors
- Golden Circle and Lean Strategic Change Canvas in practice
- Psychological safety and high-trust cultures
- Mental models and cognitive bias in technology decisions
- Shared goals and value-stream centric thinking
- Aligning product, platform, and operations for flow
- Integrating GRC with delivery pipelines
- Avoiding measure-to-target anti-patterns
- Measuring to learn: selecting meaningful outcome and flow metrics
- Current-state value stream mapping: techniques and facilitation
- Improvement Kata: experiments, hypotheses, feedback loops
- Future-state mapping and prioritising improvements
- Target Operating Models (TOM): principles and patterns
- Conway’s Law and socio-technical architecture
- Designing teams for autonomy and alignment (e.g., platform, stream-aligned)
- Performance management and motivation aligned to DevOps culture
- Storytelling and vision-casting for executives and teams
- Stakeholder analysis and communication planning
- Maintaining energy and momentum through reinforcement and transparency
- Building communities of practice and knowledge sharing
- Certification blueprint orientation and topic review
- Study approach and practice pointers aligned to the official body of knowledge
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