3. About iSQI
International Software Quality Institute
Global Certification Body
• Offices in Germany, Netherlands, UK, USA
• Focus on Software Testing, Quality and Business Value
• Extensive Portfolio
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5. • All participants are on “Mute”
• Questions in the Q&A Box please, to be answered at the
end of each section
• Technical problems also in the Q&A box please, we have
support standing by
• Duration Presentation: max. 30 min
• Session will be recorded and made available later
Operational side of this session
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7. 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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8. Talking Points
• The Definition of DevOps
• Digital Business Models are Driving Change in
Enterprise IT
• About the DevOps Agile Skills Association
(DASA), the DASA Competence Model and
Certification Scheme
• DevOps and Testing
– Why Should the Testing Community Care About
DevOps?
– Where does Testing fit in the DASA Competence
Model?
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9. What is DevOps?
a Movement? a Process? a Job Title? a Way of Thinking?
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11. What is DevOps?
In Addition We Believe...
"DevOps isn't a thing. It's not a product, standard, specification,
framework or job title. DevOps is about experiences, ideas and
culture to create High-Performing IT Professionals and Teams"
Fundamentally
DevOps is the ultimate search for Flow across IT and Business
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13. Digital Business Models are Driving
Disruption
What Do All of These Have in Common?
DVD Rental
Service
Student Bulletin
Board
Bookstore Search Engine Transportation
Network
Online
Marketplace
They are the Disruptors - Fast Movers with Digital Business Models
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14. Digital Business Models are Driving
Disruption
The Disruptive Revolution Called DevOps
IT infrastructure as we know it is completely disrupted by lightweight container
technology (best known by market leader Docker and its technology)
Public cloud solutions (e.g. Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, MS Azure) are now
sufficiently mature to convince even larger enterprises to go cloud-native and reduce in-
house IT operations.
Agile software development teams transform from happy folks gathered around a
Scrum board with multi-colored post-its to high-performance feature teams for which "Done
= live" and "infrastructure as code" are central credos instead of marketing buzz.
Monolithic and traditional application architectures landscapes that typically accrued
substantial technical debt over the past years, transform to distributed microservices-based
models to allow value-added business logic to be quickly added or changed by those agile
autonomous teams, to better serve the end users.
Organizations start to realize that bringing a new feature into production is something that
should be possible within minutes, multiple times a day, without disrupting any business
continuity. As a result, all waste in IT Development and Operations is removed by fully
automating the lifecycle adopting reliable continuous delivery and deployment practices.
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15. Digital Business Models are Driving
Disruption
Why are the Disruptors so Popular?
Puppet 2017 State of DevOps Report
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16. Digital Business Models are Driving
Disruption
What's Driving the Adoption of DevOps
You and Me = Consumers
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17. Digital Business Models are Driving
Disruption
The Main Drivers for Adopting DevOps
1. Desire to Move Faster
2. Desire to Scale Up
3. Desire to move away from a Dysfunctional
Mode of working towards a Sustainable way
of working
4. Plus - Enterprise Organizations are taking
notice
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19. About the DevOps Agile Skills Association
(DASA)
DASA is an independent and
open, members driven
association supporting the
development of DevOps
training and certification to the
global market. Advocating the
development of high-
Performance IT Professionals
and Teams through agile
DevOps initiatives.
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20. About the DevOps Agile Skills Association
(DASA)
DASA Six Principles
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21. About the DevOps Agile Skills Association
(DASA)
The DASA DevOps Qualification Program
DevOps: Fundamentals
DevOps Specialization:
Create and Deliver
DevOps Specialization:
Specify and Verify
DevOps Specialization:
Enable and Scale
DevOps: Practitioner
5
Master
2
Competent
3
Proficient
4
Expert
3 days
2 days
2 days 3 days2 days
1
Novice
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22. DASA- Resonates in the
Market
Our Open Source, Membership
Driven Association
23. About the DevOps Agile Skills Association
(DASA)
80+ Forerunner Members
"A forerunner is someone or something that comes before another, a sign
that something is going to happen".
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24. About the DevOps Agile Skills Association
(DASA)
250+ Training Partners Worldwide
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25. About the DevOps Agile Skills Association
(DASA)
Coming Soon...
French, Spanish, Polish
iSQI is a DASA Forerunner and Exam
Service Provider
DASA Exams Available Now
English, Dutch, German, Japanese
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26. About the DevOps Agile Skills Association
(DASA)
DASA Fundamental & Practitioner
DASA DevOps
Fundamentals has
produced 100+ Certified
Training Instructors to date.
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28. DASA Competence Framework Identifies
1- Novice / 2- Competent / 3 - Proficient
4 - Expert / 5 - Master
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
Knowledge
Areas
Skill Areas
Architecture
and Design
Business Value
Optimization
Business
Analysis
Test
Specification
Bob
Tester
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30. DevOps and Testing
Testing Community - Why Should You Care
about DevOps?
1. As the industry and DevOps Market is
developing Testing must be a part of it – No
Choice
2. The importance of Testing is increasing –
because of SPEED in which we release new
capabilities
3. Infrastructure is becoming software defined –
the area of attention for Testers is expanding
(hardware+software)
4. Testing Professionals will need the skills to
be able to deliver on the above
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31. DevOps and Testing
The DASA DevOps Qualification Program
DevOps: Fundamentals
DevOps Specialization:
Create and Deliver
DevOps Specialization:
Specify and Verify
DevOps Specialization:
Enable and Scale
DevOps: Practitioner
5
Master
2
Competent
3
Proficient
4
Expert
1
Novice
TESTING TESTING
TESTING
TESTING
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32. DevOps and Testing
Testing is Integrated in the Competence Areas
The DASA Competence Model requires that engineers working in
the following areas have practical knowledge of testing and test
automation
Competence Area Requirement
Test Specification Definition of tests to ensure that ‘Create & Deliver’ knows
what to build
Programming Ability to test and automate testing of all software
Continuous Delivery Ability to test and automate testing of the key IT process
Infrastructure Engineering Ability to test and automate testing of all (software-defined)
infrastructure components
Continuous Improvement Testing is part of the mindset and behavior of everyone
working in the DevOps team
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34. Journey for a Tester in the DASA
Competence Model
The DevOps Team Contains Two Broad Roles
Specify &
Verify
Create &
Deliver
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35. Journey for a Tester in the DASA
Competence Model
And a Third: Leadership
• An absolute necessity in a transformation
• Formal v. Informal
• Key roles:
–Coordination
–Organizational Development
Enable &
Scale
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36. Journey for a Tester in the DASA
Competence Model
Each member contributes their skills and knowledge to the overall
competences of the DevOps team
Katja
Ops Admin
Tom
Ops Engineer
Gerard
Product Owner
Bob
Tester
Kaitlin
Engineer
Dheeraj
Product Owner
Business value
optimization
Business
analysis
Architecture
and Design
Continuous
Delivery
Programming
Programming
Test
Specification
Security, Risk,
Compliance
Infrastructure
Engineering
Infrastructure
Engineering
Test
Specification
Programming
Continuous
Delivery
Programming
Courage
Leadership
C Improvement
Teambuilding
Courage
Leadership
C Improvement
Teambuilding
Courage
Leadership
C Improvement
Teambuilding
Courage
Leadership
C Improvement
Teambuilding
Courage
Leadership
C Improvement
Teambuilding
Courage
Leadership
C Improvement
Teambuilding
Assessment
Total Team
1- Novice / 2- Competent / 3 - Proficient
4 - Expert / 5 - Master
Master
Novice
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37. Journey for a Tester in the DASA
Competence Model
Let’s meet Bob, who is a Tester, and see how he drives through his
DevOps journey.
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38. Journey for a Tester in the DASA
Competence Model
Bob tests but the IT organization is changing ...
Does the DASA
Competence
Framework scan
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39. Journey for a Tester in the DASA
Competence Model
Bob gets assigned to a DevOps team…
Architecture
and Design
Business Value
Optimization
Business
Analysis
Test
Specification
Ambition: To become more
involved with customers on
a day-to-day basis.
Has investigated the Specify and
Verify profile that matches with his
ambition … but his current profile
does not..
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40. Journey for a Tester in the DASA
Competence Model
Bob starts his journey to DevOps in a step-by-step approach.
Step 1: Learn
about DevOps.
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41. Journey for a Tester in the DASA
Competence Model
The team needs to build his
capability in Business Value
Optimization (BVO) and
Business Analysis (BA).
Step 2: Bob learns more about the customer’s
processes by communicating to users and
follows some courses.
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42. Journey for a Tester in the DASA
Competence Model
Step 3: Bob continues to develop...Although he
has gained the practical experience, he supports
this with a formal certification.
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43. Journey for a Tester in the DASA
Competence Model
He improves his Test
Specification skills too.
Step 4: Bob improves in his daily
interactions with senior
colleagues, picks up the basis
of architecture and follows some
courses such as TOGAF.
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44. Journey for a Tester in the DASA
Competence Model
As he works in a team, he
improves in both Knowledge
and Skill areas.
Step 5: Bob builds his
Competence “Stack” …
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