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DevOps Fundamentals for Managers

Intermediate
21 h
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DevOps Fundamentals for Managers

DevOps Fundamentals for Managers: Learn a rigorous, business-focused process to govern modern, scalable software delivery ecosystems.

Get hands-on experience interpreting automated workflows, structuring cross-functional teams, and establishing clear project governance boundaries.

Apply data-driven management frameworks like DORA metrics and FinOps principles to optimize deployment health, control cloud costs, and eliminate organizational delivery bottlenecks.

Gain practical experience through intensive management labs and workshops (~50% of the course) focused on real-world financial dashboards, operational metrics, and business cases.

How this helps: Significantly reduce time-to-market, mitigate operational release risks, and confidently integrate DevOps value propositions and cost optimizations into client proposals.

Who it’s for: Designed for Project Managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Engineering Managers, and business leaders collaborating with technical teams.

The course includes targeted deep dives into microservices ownership dynamics, DevSecOps compliance gates, and concrete ROI calculation frameworks.

Skills You Will Learn

DevOps Culture & Mindset Microservices Governance Cloud Cost Management (FinOps) CI/CD Pipeline Interpretation DORA Metrics Management DevOps ROI Calculation End-to-End Agility Traceability DevSecOps Compliance Gates

Curriculum

Mindset, Culture & Shared Responsibility

  • DevOps as a business philosophy: breaking down organizational silos (Dev vs. Ops) to accelerate Time-to-Market
  • The end-to-end lifecycle: mapping the value stream from initial planning through to live production monitoring
  • Governance and roles: redefining the RACI matrix and managing cross-functional team dynamics
  • Anatomy of a project in crisis: identifying management red flags (nightly deployments, deployment fear, lack of environments)

Modern Architecture & Microservices Paradigm

  • Monolith vs. Microservices: why traditional large architectures bottleneck delivery and how modern systems solve it
  • The 'You build it, you run it' philosophy: understanding DevOps as a role or mindset embedded directly within developers
  • 100% Team Ownership: empowering engineering teams to fully own, understand, and run everything within their specific microservice
  • Interactive diagnostic workshop: mapping out current project structures and highlighting existing organizational pain points

Toolchain: Code, Integration & Continuous Delivery

  • Version Control (The Source of Truth): Azure Repos / AWS CodeCommit; why delayed code integration poses a severe management risk
  • The Developer Workflow Demystified: interactive CLI demo of the daily coding process (git clone, git add, git commit, git push, git pull) to understand technical terminology
  • Continuous Integration (CI): Azure Pipelines / AWS CodePipeline acting as the digital assembly line
  • Demystifying the pipeline: how to read, interpret, and judge a pipeline's health and predictability without looking at code

Toolchain: Containers, Infrastructure as Code & Security

  • Containerization simplified: Docker & Kubernetes concepts and how they eliminate 'it works on my machine' environmental issues
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform & ARM Templates (Azure) / CloudFormation (AWS); shifting server provisioning timelines from weeks to minutes
  • DevSecOps (Security from Day One): automated security gates, understanding SonarQube quality criteria and Snyk vulnerability gates

Hands-on Governance Labs: UI Flow & Pipelines

  • Lab 1: Flow management in the UI — understanding Pull Requests, performing management code reviews, and handling graphical release approvals (Azure DevOps / GitHub)
  • Lab 2: Visualizing a CI/CD pipeline — tracking build stages, investigating failures, and locating delivery bottlenecks autonomously

Hands-on Governance Labs: Cloud Cost Control & Quality

  • Lab 3: Financial Control Dashboards — creating and interpreting cost dashboards (Azure Cost Management / AWS Cost Explorer) to monitor daily burn rates and resource group budgets
  • Lab 4: Quality auditing & Health — reading SonarQube technical debt metrics, interpreting system alerts, and prioritizing security issues in the backlog
  • Lab 5: End-to-end traceability — mapping user stories from Azure Boards / Jira directly to live production deployments for audit trails

Cloud Governance, FinOps & Metrics Assessment

  • FinOps basics: tracking cloud budgets, understanding unexpected cost spikes, and implementing resource rightsizing governance
  • The Strategic Diagnostic Framework: 10 key governance questions every non-technical manager must ask their technical leads
  • DORA Metrics (The Industry Gold Standard): measuring Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, MTTR, and Change Failure Rate
  • Practical Workshop: conducting a real DevOps Maturity & Cost Efficiency Assessment on the participants' current active projects

Business Case, ROI Calculation & Action Plan

  • Calculating DevOps ROI & Cost Efficiency: formulas for quantifying manual task reduction and cloud cost savings vs. the upfront costs of automation engineering
  • Building the Business Case: selling DevOps internally to leadership or externally to stakeholders as a risk-mitigation and cost-control strategy
  • DevOps in the Sales Process: successfully embedding DevOps activities, cloud budgets, and modern estimation models into Statements of Work (SoW)
  • Capstone Workshop: formulating and presenting a customized, one-page DevOps Action Plan for a real project, ready for immediate rollout

Optional modules

Optional — Advanced Service Management Alignment

  • Change Management alignment: bridging the gap between traditional ITIL Change Advisory Boards (CAB) and rapid automated deployments
  • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) introduction: understanding Error Budgets and Service Level Objectives (SLOs)

Course Day Structure

  • Part 1: 09:00–10:30
  • Break: 10:30–10:45
  • Part 2: 10:45–12:45
  • Lunch break: 12:15–13:15
  • Part 3: 13:15–15:15
  • Break: 15:15–15:30
  • Part 4: 15:30–17:30

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