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Duration 2 Days 12 CPD hours This course is intended for The target audience for the DevOps Foundation course includes Management, Operations, Developers, QA and Testing professionals such as: Individuals involved in IT development IT operations or IT service management. Individuals who require an understanding of DevOps principles. IT professionals working within, or about to enter, an Agile Service Design Environment The following IT roles: Automation Architects, Application Developers, Business Analysts, Business Managers, Business Stakeholders, Change Agents, Consultants, DevOps Consultants, DevOps Engineers, Infrastructure Architect, Integration Specialists, IT Directors, IT Managers, IT Operations, IT Team Leaders, Lean Coaches, Network Administrators, Operations Managers, Project Managers, Release Engineers, Software Developers, Software Tester/QA, System Administrators, Systems Engineers, System Integrators, Tool Providers. Overview The learning objectives for DevOps Foundation include an understanding of: DevOps objectives and vocabulary Benefits to the business and IT Principles and practices including Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, testing, security and the Three Ways DevOps relationship to Agile, Lean and ITSM Improved workflows, communication and feedback loops Automation practices including deployment pipelines and DevOps toolchains Scaling DevOps for the enterprise Critical success factors and key performance indicators Real-life examples and results The DevOps Foundation course provides a baseline understanding of key DevOps terminology to ensure everyone is talking the same language and highlights the benefits of DevOps to support organizational success. Learners will gain an understanding of DevOps, the cultural and professional movement that stresses communication, collaboration, integration, and automation to improve the flow of work between software developers and IT operations professionals. This course prepares you for the DevOps Foundation (DOFD) certification. EXPLORING DEVOPS * Defining DevOps * Why Does DevOps Matter? * CORE DEVOPS PRINCIPLES * The Three Ways * The First Way * The Theory of Constraints * The Second Way * The Third Way * Chaos Engineering * Learning Organizations KEY DEVOPS PRACTICES * Continuous Testing, Integration, Delivery, Deployment * Site Reliability & Resilience Engineering * DevSecOps * ChatOps * Kanban BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY FRAMEWORKS * Agile * ITSM * Lean * Safety Culture * Learning Organizations * Continuous Funding CULTURE, BEHAVIORS & OPERATING MODELS * Defining Culture * Cultural Debt * Behavioral Models * Organizational maturity models AUTOMATION & ARCHITECTING DEVOPS TOOLCHAINS * CI/CD * Cloud, Containers, and Microservices * AI and Machine Learning * Automation * DevOps Toolchains MEASUREMENT, METRICS, AND REPORTING * The Importance of Measurement * DevOps Metrics - Speed, Quality, Stability, Culture * Change lead/cycle time * Value Driven Metrics SHARING, SHADOWING AND EVOLVING * DevOps in the Enterprise * Roles * DevOps Leadership * Organizational Considerations * Getting Started * Challenges, Risks, and Critical Success Factors ADDITIONAL COURSE DETAILS: Nexus Humans DevOps Foundation (DevOps Institute) training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the DevOps Foundation (DevOps Institute) course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.

Duration 3 Days 18 CPD hours This course is intended for This course is aimed at people in senior roles including CIOs, chief digital officers and other aspiring CxOs, as well as consultants and others involved in digital transformations, service delivery and strategic delivery. Overview By the end of this course, you will understand: The internal and external factors to consider while crafting digital strategy How IT strategy differs from digital strategy and how they can be integrated Creating a digital strategy that achieves the most value from digital Implementing and sustaining digital strategy Developing and nurturing digital capabilities for continual business innovation and value co-creation This course takes you on a digital strategy journey. Its iterative, eight-step model moves from ?vision? through to ?actions? and is about creating sustainable, digital momentum. You experience the four key capabilities to develop a holistic, digital capability framework: digital leadership, managing innovation and emerging technologies, risk management and structuring a digital enterprise. This class includes an exam voucher. Prerequisites Delegates attending this course must have successfully achieved the ITIL 4 Foundation Qualification; your certificate must be presented as documentary evidence to gain admission to this course. Although there is no mandatory requirement, ideally candidates should have at least two years professional experience working in IT Service Management. 1 - ITIL GUIDING PRINCIPLES TO ALL ASPECTS OF DIGITAL AND IT STRATEGY * Focus on Value * Start Where You Are * Progress Iteratively with Feedback * Collaborate and Promote Visibility * Think and Work Holistically * Keep It Simple and Practical * Optimise and Automate 2 - LEVERAGE DIGITAL STRATEGY TO REACT TO DIGITAL DISRUPTION * Digital Technology * Digital Business * Digital Organisation * Digitisation * Digital Transformation * Business Strategy and Business Models * Digital and IT Strategy * Products * Services * Relationship Between Digital, IT Strategy and Components of ITIL SVS. 3 - RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CONCEPTS OF DIGITAL AND IT STRATEGY, SERVICE VALUE SYSTEM AND SERVICE VALUE CHAIN * Environmental Analysis * External Analysis: PESTLE * Internal Analysis: Four Dimensions of Service Management 4 - HOW AN ORGANISATION USES DIGITAL AND IT STRATEGY TO REMAIN VIABLE IN ENVIRONMENTS * How an Organisation?s Viability is Related to Agile, Resilient, Lean, Continuous and Co-Creational it is * How to Analyse the VUCA Factors and Address them in a Digital and IT Strategy * Organisation?s Position in a Particular Market or Industry * Digital Positioning Tool to Determine Appropriate Position for a Digital Organization 5 - EXPLAIN AND COMPARE THREE LEVELS OF DIGITAL DISRUPTION * Ecosystem * Industry/Market * Organisational * Influenced factors * Achieving Customer/Market Relevance * Achieving Operational Excellence * Internal and External Focus * Balanced Approach 6 - STRATEGIC APPROACHES BY DIGITAL AND IT TO ACHIEVE CUSTOMER/MARKET RELEVANCE AND OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE * How to Apply Approaches to Achieve Customer/Market Relevance * Customer Journeys * Omnichannel Delivery and Support * Context-Sensitive Delivery and Support * Customer Analytics * Customer Feedback and 360ø Approaches * How to Achieve Operational Excellence in the Four Dimensions of Service Management * Understand the Financial Aspects of Digital and IT Strategy in Terms of the Following * Financial Policies * Portfolio Optimization * Funding Projects, Products and Services * Balancing Cost of Innovation and Operation * Charging Models * Assess Strategic Approaches for Digital Organizations 7 - RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES OF DIGITAL AND IT STRATEGY * Concept of Risk Management in the Context of a Digital Organisation * Context of Digital and IT Strategy * Identify Risk * Assess Risk * Concept of Risk Posture and Show How to Determine an Acceptable Balance Between Opportunity and Risk * Explain the Concept of Innovation, Including its Key Elements and Techniques * Apply Techniques to Develop and Maintain a Culture of Innovation 8 - STEPS AND TECHNIQUES INVOLVED IN DEFINING AND ADVOCATING FOR DIGITAL AND IT STRATEGY * How to Use Digital Readiness Assessment to Perform Gap Analysis Between an Organisation?s Current and Desired Positions Approaches for Scraping Data from Dynamic Websites * How to Define and Communicate a Vision and a Strategy * How to Use Business Cases to Advocate for a Digital and IT Strategy 9 - IMPLEMENTATION OF A DIGITAL AND IT STRATEGY * How to Define Operating Models for Digital Organisations * Major Skills Required of Leaders in Digital Organisation * Apply Approaches to Strategy Coordination and Implementation: * Large-Scale Transformation * Incremental Transformation * Mergers and Acquisitions * Individual Changes * Approaches to POMs (Parallel Operating Models) * How to Assess Success of a Digital and IT Strategy * Typical Activities of a Digital Transformation Programme

This Strategy Insights Masterclass explores what strategic planning is really about and how to approach it effectively (including how to consider the uncertainty of the future).

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OVERVIEW -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Intro. Translating Strategy into Goals and Metrics  * Components of Strategy * Understanding the failure of strategies * Analysing you and your organisation mission, vision and strengths *  Introduction into Strategy Implementation * Understanding Performance Management System * Objectives and Measures * The importance of strategy planning 

OVERVIEW -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction to Strategy Execution Roadmap  * What is Strategy Execution Roadmap? *  Defining the goals for a roadmap  * Strategy and Vision * Strategy Road Map  * Execution Plan     

Every organisation needs leaders who can think and act strategically. This program will help you clarify: Why you exist (strategic purpose) Where you are now (strategic assessment) Where you want to go (strategic development) How to get there (strategic execution)

OVERVIEW -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Strategic Financial Management and Effective Budget Execution also called Strategic Financial Management provide the important elements for attaining a comprehensive budget preparation and effective execution system. This course focuses on the risks and challenges likely to obstruct the operation of management and financial accounting processes and evaluates the techniques and tools needed to tackle them. It will highlight what constitutes strategic financial management and effective budget execution within the context of achieving their strategic and operational objectives.

OVERVIEW -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In this course participants will learn how to design, implement as well as achieve desired results from the Public Relations as well as Strategic Marketing along with promoting the product and services of their organisations.