You will learn more about our newly released DASA Practitioner Qualification from the team that built it. If DASA DevOps Fundamentals is the WHY - DASA DevOps Practitioner is the HOW. We will also provide you in-depth information on the DASA Competence Model, Principles and how the DASA Competence model focus on skills and knowledge empower and build high-performance IT organizations.

1. DASA DevOps
Practitioner Launch
Tuesday, April 4, 2017

2. DASA
Is an independent and open association supporting the development of
high-performance IT organizations through agile DevOps initiatives.
DASA offers thought leadership as well as practical guidance for
competence development for professionals and organizations.

3. #DASAchat
Questions? Join Our Live Twitter Chat
Post your questions on Twitter using our
designated hashtag #DASAchat
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4. Welcome!

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Host & Moderator
Deborah Burton
Managing Director
DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA)
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Today’s Presenters
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Rik Farenhorst
Business Unit
Manager
Xebia
Frederik Schukken
Senior Consultant
Quint Wellington
Redwood
Gwendolyn Brink
Senior Consultant
Quint Wellington
Redwood
Theo Gerrits
Senior Consultant
Xebia

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Today’s Agenda
• Welcome & Introductions – Deborah Burton
– About The DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA)
• DASA DevOps Principles – How They Guide Us - Frederik Schukken – Member of DASA Editorial Board
• DASA Competence Model & Qualification Scheme - Rik Farenhorst – Member of DASA Editorial Board
• Introducing DASA DevOps Practitioner – Theo Gerrits (Xebia) & Gwendolyn Brink - Members of DASA
DevOps Practitioner Working Group
– The Skills Needed to become a DevOps Practitioner
– What Does the Course Cover and Why is it Important?
• Q&A
• Upcoming Events
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8. About the
DevOps Agile Skills
Association (DASA)

9. #DASAchat
About the DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA)
DASA is an independent and open
association supporting the
development of high-performance IT
organizations through agile DevOps
initiatives. DASA offers thought
leadership as well as practical
guidance for competence development
for professionals and organizations.
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Watch the Recording

11. Frederik Schukken
Senior Consultant
Quint Wellington Redwood
DASA
DevOps Principles
How They Guide Us

12. DASA DevOps
Principles

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Principle 1 - Customer-Centric Action
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Principle 2 - Create with the End in Mind
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Principle 3 - End to End Responsibility
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Principle 4 - Cross-Functional Autonomous Teams
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Principle 5 - Continuous Improvement
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Principle 6 - Automate Everything You Can
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Join the New breed of IT Organizations
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Deliver Faster
Reduce Cost
RoomforInnovation
ImproveContinuity/Stability

20. Rik Farenhorst
Business Unit Manager
Xebia
DASA's DevOps
Competence Model

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…so, let’s define and advance
the DevOps profession!
There will be X00.000 DevOps-
related jobs in 2020
Why Professionalizing DevOps Skills & Knowledge?
… but fairly little is known
about what DevOps entails or
should be
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The Key Question is …
What Competencies Do I need
to Flourish in the DevOps World?
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On the One Hand …
Demand
IT Organizations
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On the Other …
Demand Supply
IT Organizations IT Engineers
Who is going to work where?
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Matching Supply and Demand
Demand Supply
IT Organizations IT Engineers
Who is going to work where?
DASA
Competence
Framework
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The Goal of DASA
Promote a knowledge and skills
framework for DevOps, based on
a defined set of principles
Generate interest and awareness
for the need for knowledge and
skill development
Map member training content to
the role based competency
framework
Develop and evangelize a vendor
neutral DevOps qualification
program for professionals
Advance quality of training and
open source certification for
DevOps knowledge and skills
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DASA Competence Framework
The DASA Competence Framework Identifies
1- Novice / 2- Competent / 3- Proficient / 4 - Expert / 5 - Master
Knowledge
Areas
Skill Areas
Courage
Teambuilding
DevOps Leadership
Continuous improvement
Business Value Optimization
Business Analysis
Architecture & Design
Programming
Continuous Delivery
Test Specification
Infrastructure Engineering
Security, Risk & Compliance
Knowledge Areas Skills Areas
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The DASA DevOps Qualification Program
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DevOps: Fundamentals
DevOps Specialization:
Specify and Verify
Devops Specialization:
Enable and Scale
DevOps Specialization:
Create and Deliver
DevOps: Practitioner
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Master
2
Competent
3
Proficient
4
Expert
1
Novice
3 days
2 days
2 days 3 days2 days

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DASA: Going Beyond ‘Just Certification’ and
Practical Experience
Competency Level
Experience Level
Knowledge & skill Level
Basic certification in tools, technology or
core concepts (e.g. DOI, Puppet, Docker,
Agile Scrum, etc.)
Working in DevOps organizations,
attending conferences (e.g. DevOps Days)
Professionalizing DevOps & Agile skills
and knowledge to help build high-
performance IT organizations (DASA)
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30. DASA DevOps
Practitioner
Course
Gwendolyn Brink
Senior Consultant
Quint Wellington
Redwood
Theo Gerrits
Senior Consultant
Xebia

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The Practitioner Course Focuses on DASA
Competence Skills Areas
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Courage
Teambuilding
DevOps Leadership
Continuous improvement
• In the Practitioner we focus on the practical application of the DevOps theory and therefore
many exercises are used in this course
• A fictional case study is used as a story line throughout the whole course

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The Skills Areas are Elaborated in their Specific
Modules Additionally the Module Value has been Added
The module Value is
added since this is such
an important topic for
DevOps encompassing
all skills areas
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Teambuilding
DevOps Leadership
Courage
Value - customer centric action
Continuous improvement

33. Module Topics of "Teambuilding"
onshape.com Linked.com Greenwich.com
Design Teams Build Teams Governance
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Teambuilding – Design and Build Teams
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‘Product-Focused’ Team
⇥ Result Oriented
⇥ Team Organized
⇥ Product Focused
⇥ Work with Teams
⇥ Optimized for Speed

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Teambuilding - Governance
Governance within and between teams or between organizations
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Module Topics of "DevOps Leadership"
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DevOps Leadership – Build Culture Become a
Servant Leader
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The True Leader

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A High Performance Culture
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‘Quality first’
‘Continuous
improvement’
‘Taking
responsibility’
‘Experimentation &
risk taking
‘Trust’
HIGH PERFORMING TEAMS

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DevOps Leadership – Create Purpose and
Focus on Success
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Purpose is a Prerequisite for Success:

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Module "Courage"
• Courage is an important skill of a
DevOps team member
• Courage Enables Innovation
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Complacency Innovation
Apathy Fear
Urge Courageous Behavior
ProvideSafety
DevOps teams
need to be
here

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Module "Value - Customer Centric Action"
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Module Topics "Continuous Improvement"
Build Flow Continuous Improvement ToolsTypes of Continuous Improvement
Continuou
s
Improvem
ent Tools
Five
Times
‘Why’
Kaizen
Event
Value
Stream
Mapping
Visual
Managem
ent
Retrospec
tive
Daily
Standup
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Course Delivery Information
• All of the discussed modules will be taught in
a two-day course
• The course will be concluded with an closed
book Exam
• Exam consists of 12 multiple choice
questions, duration 45 min, for non native
English speakers 15 min extra. Passing score
is 60%
• This course builds up on the fundamentals,
therefore the Course Requirements are a
passed DevOps fundamentals exam
Download the Syllabus
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Think About What You Would Like to Achieve
The High Performance IT Organization
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Watch the Recording

46. Thank You!