Mastering Agile and DevOps for Future-Proof Software Development
You're under pressure. Deadlines are tight, deployments fail without warning, and teams are siloed, slowing progress. While technology accelerates, your organisation lags, risking relevance in an era where speed, reliability, and adaptability define winners. Manual handoffs, fragmented communication, and reactive firefighting waste time and erode stakeholder trust. You know Agile and DevOps are the answer, but knowing and mastering are worlds apart. Without structured mastery, you're stuck between half-implemented frameworks and frustration. Mastering Agile and DevOps for Future-Proof Software Development is the definitive roadmap to transform reactive chaos into proactive control. This is not theory for theorists-it’s a proven system to take you from fragmented workflows to a unified delivery engine in as little as 30 days, with a fully operational roadmap and board-ready change proposal to show for it. One engineering lead at a Fortune 500 fintech built a zero-downtime CI/CD pipeline in three weeks after completing this program. His deployment frequency increased by 7x, and mean time to recovery dropped from hours to minutes. That’s not luck. That’s structured, repeatable transformation. This course is for software architects, DevOps engineers, team leads, and product managers who refuse to accept outdated delivery models. It’s for those ready to lead with confidence, drive measurable outcomes, and become the catalyst for organisational resilience. If you want real-world models, not buzzwords, and scalable methodologies backed by global practice, this is your breakthrough. Here’s how this course is structured to help you get there.Course Format & Delivery Details Fully Self-Paced with Immediate Online Access
You begin the moment you’re ready. No waiting for cohort starts or fixed schedules. The entire course is available on-demand, designed for your real-life workload. Average completion time is 4 to 6 weeks, but you can apply key workflows in under 10 days. Lifetime Access & Continuous Updates
Enroll once, own it forever. You get lifetime access to all course materials, with no expiration and zero additional fees. We continuously update content based on new industry practices, tool evolutions, and participant feedback-all at no extra cost. Learn Anywhere, Anytime, on Any Device
Access the full experience on desktop, tablet, or mobile. The platform is responsive, optimised for fast loading, and functions flawlessly offline. Your progress syncs automatically across devices, so you can start on your commute and finish during downtime. Expert-Led Guidance with Direct Support
You're not alone. Receive structured feedback via curated challenge reviews and direct access to a dedicated course facilitator with 15+ years in enterprise Agile transformation. All inquiries are responded to within 24 hours, with prioritised access for implementation blockers. Certificate of Completion Issued by The Art of Service
Upon finishing, you’ll earn a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service, a globally recognised credential trusted by over 18,000 professionals in 92 countries. This is more than a badge-it’s proof of applied mastery that strengthens your credibility, LinkedIn profile, and promotion case. Transparent Pricing-No Hidden Fees, Ever
There are no upsells, no subscription traps, and no surprise charges. What you see is what you pay. One flat fee grants full, unrestricted access to everything, now and in the future. Accepted Payment Methods
We accept Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal. Secure checkout ensures your data remains protected with bank-level encryption. Full 30-Day Satisfied-or-Refunded Guarantee
Your risk is zero. If you complete the first two modules and don’t feel significantly more confident in implementing Agile and DevOps at scale, request a full refund. No questions, no friction. We stand by the value this course delivers. Instant Confirmation, Ready When You Are
After enrollment, you’ll receive a confirmation email. Your official access details and login instructions will be sent separately once your account is fully provisioned and course materials are unlocked-so you can start with clarity and purpose. This Works Even If…
- You're in a legacy environment with rigid change controls
- You don't have executive sponsorship-yet
- Your team resists new methodologies
- You’ve tried Agile or DevOps before and failed to sustain change
- You’re not a coder but lead technical teams
Our alumni include project managers in regulated banking sectors, QA leads in healthcare software, and engineering directors in global e-commerce. They succeeded not because they had perfect conditions-but because this course teaches how to thrive in imperfect ones. We remove the guesswork, mitigate your risks, and give you the tools to prove value early. This is not just learning. It’s career momentum.
Module 1: Foundations of Future-Proof Software Delivery - Understanding the business case for Agile and DevOps transformation
- Mapping the evolution of software delivery: from waterfall to CI/CD
- Defining true agility beyond Scrum ceremonies
- Core principles of DevOps: culture, automation, measurement, sharing
- The cost of technical debt and delayed feedback loops
- Identifying organisational anti-patterns in software delivery
- Measuring delivery health: lead time, deployment frequency, MTTR
- The role of psychological safety in high-performing teams
- Building cross-functional collaboration between Dev, Ops, and Security
- Assessing your current maturity using the CAMS framework
Module 2: Agile Frameworks with Real-World Application - Scrum in practice: sprint planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives
- Kanban flow optimisation: WIP limits, cycle time, and bottleneck analysis
- Scaling Agile with SAFe, LeSS, and Nexus-what really works
- Event storming for rapid domain discovery
- User story mapping for stakeholder alignment
- Estimation techniques: story points vs. t-shirt sizing vs. no estimation
- Handling changing priorities mid-sprint without chaos
- Creating outcome-driven roadmaps instead of feature factories
- Integrating design thinking into Agile delivery
- Managing distributed Agile teams across time zones
Module 3: DevOps Culture and Leadership Strategy - Shifting left: embedding quality and security early
- Leading change without authority: influencing as an individual contributor
- Creating a blameless incident review process
- Overcoming resistance to DevOps adoption
- Building trust through transparency and shared KPIs
- Developing a learning organisation mindset
- Metrics that matter: from vanity to value stream indicators
- Creating feedback loops at every stage of delivery
- The role of continuous improvement in DevOps
- Aligning DevOps initiatives with business outcomes
Module 4: Automation and Infrastructure as Code - Principles of infrastructure as code (IaC)
- Getting started with Terraform for cloud provisioning
- Managing configuration with Ansible
- Automating environment creation and teardown
- Version control for infrastructure: Git workflows and branching
- Secure secret management in automated systems
- Drift detection and remediation strategies
- Testing infrastructure changes before deployment
- Creating reusable, modular IaC templates
- Cost optimisation through automated resource lifecycle management
Module 5: Continuous Integration (CI) Pipeline Design - Designing fast, reliable CI pipelines
- Setting up build triggers and parallel job execution
- Integrating automated unit and integration testing
- Static code analysis tools and thresholds
- Dependency scanning for license and security risks
- Artifact versioning and repository management
- Fail-fast strategies to accelerate feedback
- Managing pipeline concurrency and resource constraints
- Logging and monitoring pipeline performance
- Creating pipeline templates for team consistency
Module 6: Continuous Delivery and Deployment (CD) - Designing deployment pipelines with gates and approvals
- Blue-green deployments and canary releases
- Feature toggles for safe, incremental rollout
- Automated rollback strategies for production failures
- Handling database schema changes in CD
- Zero-downtime deployment patterns
- Environment parity across dev, staging, and prod
- Deployment safety checks: health probes, smoke tests
- Integrating security validations into deployment gates
- Managing stateful applications in automated deployments
Module 7: Monitoring, Observability, and Feedback - From monitoring to observability: logs, metrics, traces
- Setting up centralised logging with ELK or Grafana Loki
- Creating meaningful dashboards and alerting rules
- Defining service level objectives (SLOs) and error budgets
- Using observability to detect performance regressions
- Correlating incidents across services and teams
- Setting up synthetic monitoring for critical user journeys
- Automated alert triaging and on-call integration
- Feedback loops from production to development
- Creating a runbook for common failure scenarios
Module 8: Security Integration (DevSecOps) - Security as a shared responsibility
- Integrating SAST and DAST tools into pipelines
- Dependency vulnerability scanning with OWASP Dependency-Check
- Automated container image scanning with Trivy or Clair
- Policy as code with OPA and Rego
- Secrets detection in source code history
- Compliance automation for regulated industries
- Secure onboarding for new developers
- Penetration testing cadence and reporting
- Building a security champion network
Module 9: Cloud-Native Architecture and Platform Engineering - Designing for cloud resilience and scalability
- Migrating legacy apps to cloud-native architectures
- Microservices: when to use them and when to avoid
- Service mesh fundamentals with Istio or Linkerd
- API gateway patterns and traffic management
- Event-driven architectures with Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Serverless computing: use cases and limitations
- Platform engineering as an enabler for developer productivity
- Internal developer portals with Backstage
- Standardising developer environments with containers
Module 10: Value Stream Mapping and Delivery Optimisation - Visualising your end-to-end software delivery pipeline
- Identifying bottlenecks in handoffs and approvals
- Measuring touch time vs wait time across stages
- Calculating true lead time from idea to production
- Using value stream maps to prioritise improvements
- Reducing batch size to accelerate flow
- Eliminating waste in rework, context switching, and delays
- Linking process improvements to business KPIs
- Tracking progress with value stream metrics
- Creating executive summaries for leadership review
Module 11: Advanced CI/CD Pipeline Patterns - Monorepo vs polyrepo: trade-offs and real-world implementation
- Multi-repo coordination with dependency versioning
- Trunk-based development with short-lived branches
- Automated dependency updates with Renovate
- Chaos engineering in CI: testing failure modes early
- Performance testing as part of automated pipelines
- Environment templating with dynamic provisioning
- Parallel testing strategies to reduce feedback time
- Gatekeeping quality with automated compliance checks
- Pipeline as code: defining workflows in YAML or Groovy
Module 12: Toolchain Integration and Orchestration - Selecting the right tools for your stack and scale
- Integrating Jira with CI/CD pipelines
- Synchronising Git commits with work items
- Using Slack or Microsoft Teams for delivery notifications
- Orchestrating workflows across Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI
- Centralising audit trails for compliance reporting
- Automating release notes generation
- Syncing environments with configuration management
- Creating single source of truth for deployment status
- Toolchain standardisation for enterprise consistency
Module 13: Advanced Testing Strategies - Test pyramid: unit, integration, E2E balance
- Contract testing with Pact for microservices
- Automated visual regression testing
- Accessibility testing in CI pipelines
- Performance benchmarking and tracking over time
- Load testing strategies for cloud environments
- Security testing automation with ZAP and SonarQube
- Regression test suite optimisation
- Test data management and anonymisation
- Flaky test detection and isolation
Module 14: Leading Organisational Transformation - Creating a DevOps transformation roadmap
- Piloting changes in a low-risk team or project
- Measuring and communicating early wins
- Scaling success across departments
- Developing internal champions and guilds
- Aligning transformation goals with executive priorities
- Training and upskilling teams effectively
- Managing change fatigue and maintaining momentum
- Creating feedback mechanisms for continuous adaptation
- Building a centre of excellence for DevOps
Module 15: Real-World Implementation Projects - Designing a CI/CD pipeline for a sample application
- Implementing infrastructure as code for a three-tier app
- Setting up monitoring and alerting for a microservice
- Conducting a blameless postmortem simulation
- Creating a value stream map for a live project
- Performing a DevOps maturity self-assessment
- Building a security policy as code for container deployment
- Running a feature toggle experiment in a test environment
- Automating compliance checks for GDPR or HIPAA
- Presenting a board-ready transformation proposal
Module 16: Certification, Career Advancement & Next Steps - Preparing for the Certificate of Completion assessment
- Documenting your implementation project for verification
- Reviewing key concepts for mastery validation
- Submitting your work for expert evaluation
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Adding certification to LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Leveraging credentials in performance reviews and promotions
- Benchmarking your progress against industry standards
- Identifying next-level certifications and learning paths
- Joining the global alumni network for ongoing support
- Understanding the business case for Agile and DevOps transformation
- Mapping the evolution of software delivery: from waterfall to CI/CD
- Defining true agility beyond Scrum ceremonies
- Core principles of DevOps: culture, automation, measurement, sharing
- The cost of technical debt and delayed feedback loops
- Identifying organisational anti-patterns in software delivery
- Measuring delivery health: lead time, deployment frequency, MTTR
- The role of psychological safety in high-performing teams
- Building cross-functional collaboration between Dev, Ops, and Security
- Assessing your current maturity using the CAMS framework
Module 2: Agile Frameworks with Real-World Application - Scrum in practice: sprint planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives
- Kanban flow optimisation: WIP limits, cycle time, and bottleneck analysis
- Scaling Agile with SAFe, LeSS, and Nexus-what really works
- Event storming for rapid domain discovery
- User story mapping for stakeholder alignment
- Estimation techniques: story points vs. t-shirt sizing vs. no estimation
- Handling changing priorities mid-sprint without chaos
- Creating outcome-driven roadmaps instead of feature factories
- Integrating design thinking into Agile delivery
- Managing distributed Agile teams across time zones
Module 3: DevOps Culture and Leadership Strategy - Shifting left: embedding quality and security early
- Leading change without authority: influencing as an individual contributor
- Creating a blameless incident review process
- Overcoming resistance to DevOps adoption
- Building trust through transparency and shared KPIs
- Developing a learning organisation mindset
- Metrics that matter: from vanity to value stream indicators
- Creating feedback loops at every stage of delivery
- The role of continuous improvement in DevOps
- Aligning DevOps initiatives with business outcomes
Module 4: Automation and Infrastructure as Code - Principles of infrastructure as code (IaC)
- Getting started with Terraform for cloud provisioning
- Managing configuration with Ansible
- Automating environment creation and teardown
- Version control for infrastructure: Git workflows and branching
- Secure secret management in automated systems
- Drift detection and remediation strategies
- Testing infrastructure changes before deployment
- Creating reusable, modular IaC templates
- Cost optimisation through automated resource lifecycle management
Module 5: Continuous Integration (CI) Pipeline Design - Designing fast, reliable CI pipelines
- Setting up build triggers and parallel job execution
- Integrating automated unit and integration testing
- Static code analysis tools and thresholds
- Dependency scanning for license and security risks
- Artifact versioning and repository management
- Fail-fast strategies to accelerate feedback
- Managing pipeline concurrency and resource constraints
- Logging and monitoring pipeline performance
- Creating pipeline templates for team consistency
Module 6: Continuous Delivery and Deployment (CD) - Designing deployment pipelines with gates and approvals
- Blue-green deployments and canary releases
- Feature toggles for safe, incremental rollout
- Automated rollback strategies for production failures
- Handling database schema changes in CD
- Zero-downtime deployment patterns
- Environment parity across dev, staging, and prod
- Deployment safety checks: health probes, smoke tests
- Integrating security validations into deployment gates
- Managing stateful applications in automated deployments
Module 7: Monitoring, Observability, and Feedback - From monitoring to observability: logs, metrics, traces
- Setting up centralised logging with ELK or Grafana Loki
- Creating meaningful dashboards and alerting rules
- Defining service level objectives (SLOs) and error budgets
- Using observability to detect performance regressions
- Correlating incidents across services and teams
- Setting up synthetic monitoring for critical user journeys
- Automated alert triaging and on-call integration
- Feedback loops from production to development
- Creating a runbook for common failure scenarios
Module 8: Security Integration (DevSecOps) - Security as a shared responsibility
- Integrating SAST and DAST tools into pipelines
- Dependency vulnerability scanning with OWASP Dependency-Check
- Automated container image scanning with Trivy or Clair
- Policy as code with OPA and Rego
- Secrets detection in source code history
- Compliance automation for regulated industries
- Secure onboarding for new developers
- Penetration testing cadence and reporting
- Building a security champion network
Module 9: Cloud-Native Architecture and Platform Engineering - Designing for cloud resilience and scalability
- Migrating legacy apps to cloud-native architectures
- Microservices: when to use them and when to avoid
- Service mesh fundamentals with Istio or Linkerd
- API gateway patterns and traffic management
- Event-driven architectures with Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Serverless computing: use cases and limitations
- Platform engineering as an enabler for developer productivity
- Internal developer portals with Backstage
- Standardising developer environments with containers
Module 10: Value Stream Mapping and Delivery Optimisation - Visualising your end-to-end software delivery pipeline
- Identifying bottlenecks in handoffs and approvals
- Measuring touch time vs wait time across stages
- Calculating true lead time from idea to production
- Using value stream maps to prioritise improvements
- Reducing batch size to accelerate flow
- Eliminating waste in rework, context switching, and delays
- Linking process improvements to business KPIs
- Tracking progress with value stream metrics
- Creating executive summaries for leadership review
Module 11: Advanced CI/CD Pipeline Patterns - Monorepo vs polyrepo: trade-offs and real-world implementation
- Multi-repo coordination with dependency versioning
- Trunk-based development with short-lived branches
- Automated dependency updates with Renovate
- Chaos engineering in CI: testing failure modes early
- Performance testing as part of automated pipelines
- Environment templating with dynamic provisioning
- Parallel testing strategies to reduce feedback time
- Gatekeeping quality with automated compliance checks
- Pipeline as code: defining workflows in YAML or Groovy
Module 12: Toolchain Integration and Orchestration - Selecting the right tools for your stack and scale
- Integrating Jira with CI/CD pipelines
- Synchronising Git commits with work items
- Using Slack or Microsoft Teams for delivery notifications
- Orchestrating workflows across Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI
- Centralising audit trails for compliance reporting
- Automating release notes generation
- Syncing environments with configuration management
- Creating single source of truth for deployment status
- Toolchain standardisation for enterprise consistency
Module 13: Advanced Testing Strategies - Test pyramid: unit, integration, E2E balance
- Contract testing with Pact for microservices
- Automated visual regression testing
- Accessibility testing in CI pipelines
- Performance benchmarking and tracking over time
- Load testing strategies for cloud environments
- Security testing automation with ZAP and SonarQube
- Regression test suite optimisation
- Test data management and anonymisation
- Flaky test detection and isolation
Module 14: Leading Organisational Transformation - Creating a DevOps transformation roadmap
- Piloting changes in a low-risk team or project
- Measuring and communicating early wins
- Scaling success across departments
- Developing internal champions and guilds
- Aligning transformation goals with executive priorities
- Training and upskilling teams effectively
- Managing change fatigue and maintaining momentum
- Creating feedback mechanisms for continuous adaptation
- Building a centre of excellence for DevOps
Module 15: Real-World Implementation Projects - Designing a CI/CD pipeline for a sample application
- Implementing infrastructure as code for a three-tier app
- Setting up monitoring and alerting for a microservice
- Conducting a blameless postmortem simulation
- Creating a value stream map for a live project
- Performing a DevOps maturity self-assessment
- Building a security policy as code for container deployment
- Running a feature toggle experiment in a test environment
- Automating compliance checks for GDPR or HIPAA
- Presenting a board-ready transformation proposal
Module 16: Certification, Career Advancement & Next Steps - Preparing for the Certificate of Completion assessment
- Documenting your implementation project for verification
- Reviewing key concepts for mastery validation
- Submitting your work for expert evaluation
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Adding certification to LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Leveraging credentials in performance reviews and promotions
- Benchmarking your progress against industry standards
- Identifying next-level certifications and learning paths
- Joining the global alumni network for ongoing support
- Shifting left: embedding quality and security early
- Leading change without authority: influencing as an individual contributor
- Creating a blameless incident review process
- Overcoming resistance to DevOps adoption
- Building trust through transparency and shared KPIs
- Developing a learning organisation mindset
- Metrics that matter: from vanity to value stream indicators
- Creating feedback loops at every stage of delivery
- The role of continuous improvement in DevOps
- Aligning DevOps initiatives with business outcomes
Module 4: Automation and Infrastructure as Code - Principles of infrastructure as code (IaC)
- Getting started with Terraform for cloud provisioning
- Managing configuration with Ansible
- Automating environment creation and teardown
- Version control for infrastructure: Git workflows and branching
- Secure secret management in automated systems
- Drift detection and remediation strategies
- Testing infrastructure changes before deployment
- Creating reusable, modular IaC templates
- Cost optimisation through automated resource lifecycle management
Module 5: Continuous Integration (CI) Pipeline Design - Designing fast, reliable CI pipelines
- Setting up build triggers and parallel job execution
- Integrating automated unit and integration testing
- Static code analysis tools and thresholds
- Dependency scanning for license and security risks
- Artifact versioning and repository management
- Fail-fast strategies to accelerate feedback
- Managing pipeline concurrency and resource constraints
- Logging and monitoring pipeline performance
- Creating pipeline templates for team consistency
Module 6: Continuous Delivery and Deployment (CD) - Designing deployment pipelines with gates and approvals
- Blue-green deployments and canary releases
- Feature toggles for safe, incremental rollout
- Automated rollback strategies for production failures
- Handling database schema changes in CD
- Zero-downtime deployment patterns
- Environment parity across dev, staging, and prod
- Deployment safety checks: health probes, smoke tests
- Integrating security validations into deployment gates
- Managing stateful applications in automated deployments
Module 7: Monitoring, Observability, and Feedback - From monitoring to observability: logs, metrics, traces
- Setting up centralised logging with ELK or Grafana Loki
- Creating meaningful dashboards and alerting rules
- Defining service level objectives (SLOs) and error budgets
- Using observability to detect performance regressions
- Correlating incidents across services and teams
- Setting up synthetic monitoring for critical user journeys
- Automated alert triaging and on-call integration
- Feedback loops from production to development
- Creating a runbook for common failure scenarios
Module 8: Security Integration (DevSecOps) - Security as a shared responsibility
- Integrating SAST and DAST tools into pipelines
- Dependency vulnerability scanning with OWASP Dependency-Check
- Automated container image scanning with Trivy or Clair
- Policy as code with OPA and Rego
- Secrets detection in source code history
- Compliance automation for regulated industries
- Secure onboarding for new developers
- Penetration testing cadence and reporting
- Building a security champion network
Module 9: Cloud-Native Architecture and Platform Engineering - Designing for cloud resilience and scalability
- Migrating legacy apps to cloud-native architectures
- Microservices: when to use them and when to avoid
- Service mesh fundamentals with Istio or Linkerd
- API gateway patterns and traffic management
- Event-driven architectures with Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Serverless computing: use cases and limitations
- Platform engineering as an enabler for developer productivity
- Internal developer portals with Backstage
- Standardising developer environments with containers
Module 10: Value Stream Mapping and Delivery Optimisation - Visualising your end-to-end software delivery pipeline
- Identifying bottlenecks in handoffs and approvals
- Measuring touch time vs wait time across stages
- Calculating true lead time from idea to production
- Using value stream maps to prioritise improvements
- Reducing batch size to accelerate flow
- Eliminating waste in rework, context switching, and delays
- Linking process improvements to business KPIs
- Tracking progress with value stream metrics
- Creating executive summaries for leadership review
Module 11: Advanced CI/CD Pipeline Patterns - Monorepo vs polyrepo: trade-offs and real-world implementation
- Multi-repo coordination with dependency versioning
- Trunk-based development with short-lived branches
- Automated dependency updates with Renovate
- Chaos engineering in CI: testing failure modes early
- Performance testing as part of automated pipelines
- Environment templating with dynamic provisioning
- Parallel testing strategies to reduce feedback time
- Gatekeeping quality with automated compliance checks
- Pipeline as code: defining workflows in YAML or Groovy
Module 12: Toolchain Integration and Orchestration - Selecting the right tools for your stack and scale
- Integrating Jira with CI/CD pipelines
- Synchronising Git commits with work items
- Using Slack or Microsoft Teams for delivery notifications
- Orchestrating workflows across Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI
- Centralising audit trails for compliance reporting
- Automating release notes generation
- Syncing environments with configuration management
- Creating single source of truth for deployment status
- Toolchain standardisation for enterprise consistency
Module 13: Advanced Testing Strategies - Test pyramid: unit, integration, E2E balance
- Contract testing with Pact for microservices
- Automated visual regression testing
- Accessibility testing in CI pipelines
- Performance benchmarking and tracking over time
- Load testing strategies for cloud environments
- Security testing automation with ZAP and SonarQube
- Regression test suite optimisation
- Test data management and anonymisation
- Flaky test detection and isolation
Module 14: Leading Organisational Transformation - Creating a DevOps transformation roadmap
- Piloting changes in a low-risk team or project
- Measuring and communicating early wins
- Scaling success across departments
- Developing internal champions and guilds
- Aligning transformation goals with executive priorities
- Training and upskilling teams effectively
- Managing change fatigue and maintaining momentum
- Creating feedback mechanisms for continuous adaptation
- Building a centre of excellence for DevOps
Module 15: Real-World Implementation Projects - Designing a CI/CD pipeline for a sample application
- Implementing infrastructure as code for a three-tier app
- Setting up monitoring and alerting for a microservice
- Conducting a blameless postmortem simulation
- Creating a value stream map for a live project
- Performing a DevOps maturity self-assessment
- Building a security policy as code for container deployment
- Running a feature toggle experiment in a test environment
- Automating compliance checks for GDPR or HIPAA
- Presenting a board-ready transformation proposal
Module 16: Certification, Career Advancement & Next Steps - Preparing for the Certificate of Completion assessment
- Documenting your implementation project for verification
- Reviewing key concepts for mastery validation
- Submitting your work for expert evaluation
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Adding certification to LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Leveraging credentials in performance reviews and promotions
- Benchmarking your progress against industry standards
- Identifying next-level certifications and learning paths
- Joining the global alumni network for ongoing support
- Designing fast, reliable CI pipelines
- Setting up build triggers and parallel job execution
- Integrating automated unit and integration testing
- Static code analysis tools and thresholds
- Dependency scanning for license and security risks
- Artifact versioning and repository management
- Fail-fast strategies to accelerate feedback
- Managing pipeline concurrency and resource constraints
- Logging and monitoring pipeline performance
- Creating pipeline templates for team consistency
Module 6: Continuous Delivery and Deployment (CD) - Designing deployment pipelines with gates and approvals
- Blue-green deployments and canary releases
- Feature toggles for safe, incremental rollout
- Automated rollback strategies for production failures
- Handling database schema changes in CD
- Zero-downtime deployment patterns
- Environment parity across dev, staging, and prod
- Deployment safety checks: health probes, smoke tests
- Integrating security validations into deployment gates
- Managing stateful applications in automated deployments
Module 7: Monitoring, Observability, and Feedback - From monitoring to observability: logs, metrics, traces
- Setting up centralised logging with ELK or Grafana Loki
- Creating meaningful dashboards and alerting rules
- Defining service level objectives (SLOs) and error budgets
- Using observability to detect performance regressions
- Correlating incidents across services and teams
- Setting up synthetic monitoring for critical user journeys
- Automated alert triaging and on-call integration
- Feedback loops from production to development
- Creating a runbook for common failure scenarios
Module 8: Security Integration (DevSecOps) - Security as a shared responsibility
- Integrating SAST and DAST tools into pipelines
- Dependency vulnerability scanning with OWASP Dependency-Check
- Automated container image scanning with Trivy or Clair
- Policy as code with OPA and Rego
- Secrets detection in source code history
- Compliance automation for regulated industries
- Secure onboarding for new developers
- Penetration testing cadence and reporting
- Building a security champion network
Module 9: Cloud-Native Architecture and Platform Engineering - Designing for cloud resilience and scalability
- Migrating legacy apps to cloud-native architectures
- Microservices: when to use them and when to avoid
- Service mesh fundamentals with Istio or Linkerd
- API gateway patterns and traffic management
- Event-driven architectures with Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Serverless computing: use cases and limitations
- Platform engineering as an enabler for developer productivity
- Internal developer portals with Backstage
- Standardising developer environments with containers
Module 10: Value Stream Mapping and Delivery Optimisation - Visualising your end-to-end software delivery pipeline
- Identifying bottlenecks in handoffs and approvals
- Measuring touch time vs wait time across stages
- Calculating true lead time from idea to production
- Using value stream maps to prioritise improvements
- Reducing batch size to accelerate flow
- Eliminating waste in rework, context switching, and delays
- Linking process improvements to business KPIs
- Tracking progress with value stream metrics
- Creating executive summaries for leadership review
Module 11: Advanced CI/CD Pipeline Patterns - Monorepo vs polyrepo: trade-offs and real-world implementation
- Multi-repo coordination with dependency versioning
- Trunk-based development with short-lived branches
- Automated dependency updates with Renovate
- Chaos engineering in CI: testing failure modes early
- Performance testing as part of automated pipelines
- Environment templating with dynamic provisioning
- Parallel testing strategies to reduce feedback time
- Gatekeeping quality with automated compliance checks
- Pipeline as code: defining workflows in YAML or Groovy
Module 12: Toolchain Integration and Orchestration - Selecting the right tools for your stack and scale
- Integrating Jira with CI/CD pipelines
- Synchronising Git commits with work items
- Using Slack or Microsoft Teams for delivery notifications
- Orchestrating workflows across Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI
- Centralising audit trails for compliance reporting
- Automating release notes generation
- Syncing environments with configuration management
- Creating single source of truth for deployment status
- Toolchain standardisation for enterprise consistency
Module 13: Advanced Testing Strategies - Test pyramid: unit, integration, E2E balance
- Contract testing with Pact for microservices
- Automated visual regression testing
- Accessibility testing in CI pipelines
- Performance benchmarking and tracking over time
- Load testing strategies for cloud environments
- Security testing automation with ZAP and SonarQube
- Regression test suite optimisation
- Test data management and anonymisation
- Flaky test detection and isolation
Module 14: Leading Organisational Transformation - Creating a DevOps transformation roadmap
- Piloting changes in a low-risk team or project
- Measuring and communicating early wins
- Scaling success across departments
- Developing internal champions and guilds
- Aligning transformation goals with executive priorities
- Training and upskilling teams effectively
- Managing change fatigue and maintaining momentum
- Creating feedback mechanisms for continuous adaptation
- Building a centre of excellence for DevOps
Module 15: Real-World Implementation Projects - Designing a CI/CD pipeline for a sample application
- Implementing infrastructure as code for a three-tier app
- Setting up monitoring and alerting for a microservice
- Conducting a blameless postmortem simulation
- Creating a value stream map for a live project
- Performing a DevOps maturity self-assessment
- Building a security policy as code for container deployment
- Running a feature toggle experiment in a test environment
- Automating compliance checks for GDPR or HIPAA
- Presenting a board-ready transformation proposal
Module 16: Certification, Career Advancement & Next Steps - Preparing for the Certificate of Completion assessment
- Documenting your implementation project for verification
- Reviewing key concepts for mastery validation
- Submitting your work for expert evaluation
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Adding certification to LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Leveraging credentials in performance reviews and promotions
- Benchmarking your progress against industry standards
- Identifying next-level certifications and learning paths
- Joining the global alumni network for ongoing support
- From monitoring to observability: logs, metrics, traces
- Setting up centralised logging with ELK or Grafana Loki
- Creating meaningful dashboards and alerting rules
- Defining service level objectives (SLOs) and error budgets
- Using observability to detect performance regressions
- Correlating incidents across services and teams
- Setting up synthetic monitoring for critical user journeys
- Automated alert triaging and on-call integration
- Feedback loops from production to development
- Creating a runbook for common failure scenarios
Module 8: Security Integration (DevSecOps) - Security as a shared responsibility
- Integrating SAST and DAST tools into pipelines
- Dependency vulnerability scanning with OWASP Dependency-Check
- Automated container image scanning with Trivy or Clair
- Policy as code with OPA and Rego
- Secrets detection in source code history
- Compliance automation for regulated industries
- Secure onboarding for new developers
- Penetration testing cadence and reporting
- Building a security champion network
Module 9: Cloud-Native Architecture and Platform Engineering - Designing for cloud resilience and scalability
- Migrating legacy apps to cloud-native architectures
- Microservices: when to use them and when to avoid
- Service mesh fundamentals with Istio or Linkerd
- API gateway patterns and traffic management
- Event-driven architectures with Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Serverless computing: use cases and limitations
- Platform engineering as an enabler for developer productivity
- Internal developer portals with Backstage
- Standardising developer environments with containers
Module 10: Value Stream Mapping and Delivery Optimisation - Visualising your end-to-end software delivery pipeline
- Identifying bottlenecks in handoffs and approvals
- Measuring touch time vs wait time across stages
- Calculating true lead time from idea to production
- Using value stream maps to prioritise improvements
- Reducing batch size to accelerate flow
- Eliminating waste in rework, context switching, and delays
- Linking process improvements to business KPIs
- Tracking progress with value stream metrics
- Creating executive summaries for leadership review
Module 11: Advanced CI/CD Pipeline Patterns - Monorepo vs polyrepo: trade-offs and real-world implementation
- Multi-repo coordination with dependency versioning
- Trunk-based development with short-lived branches
- Automated dependency updates with Renovate
- Chaos engineering in CI: testing failure modes early
- Performance testing as part of automated pipelines
- Environment templating with dynamic provisioning
- Parallel testing strategies to reduce feedback time
- Gatekeeping quality with automated compliance checks
- Pipeline as code: defining workflows in YAML or Groovy
Module 12: Toolchain Integration and Orchestration - Selecting the right tools for your stack and scale
- Integrating Jira with CI/CD pipelines
- Synchronising Git commits with work items
- Using Slack or Microsoft Teams for delivery notifications
- Orchestrating workflows across Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI
- Centralising audit trails for compliance reporting
- Automating release notes generation
- Syncing environments with configuration management
- Creating single source of truth for deployment status
- Toolchain standardisation for enterprise consistency
Module 13: Advanced Testing Strategies - Test pyramid: unit, integration, E2E balance
- Contract testing with Pact for microservices
- Automated visual regression testing
- Accessibility testing in CI pipelines
- Performance benchmarking and tracking over time
- Load testing strategies for cloud environments
- Security testing automation with ZAP and SonarQube
- Regression test suite optimisation
- Test data management and anonymisation
- Flaky test detection and isolation
Module 14: Leading Organisational Transformation - Creating a DevOps transformation roadmap
- Piloting changes in a low-risk team or project
- Measuring and communicating early wins
- Scaling success across departments
- Developing internal champions and guilds
- Aligning transformation goals with executive priorities
- Training and upskilling teams effectively
- Managing change fatigue and maintaining momentum
- Creating feedback mechanisms for continuous adaptation
- Building a centre of excellence for DevOps
Module 15: Real-World Implementation Projects - Designing a CI/CD pipeline for a sample application
- Implementing infrastructure as code for a three-tier app
- Setting up monitoring and alerting for a microservice
- Conducting a blameless postmortem simulation
- Creating a value stream map for a live project
- Performing a DevOps maturity self-assessment
- Building a security policy as code for container deployment
- Running a feature toggle experiment in a test environment
- Automating compliance checks for GDPR or HIPAA
- Presenting a board-ready transformation proposal
Module 16: Certification, Career Advancement & Next Steps - Preparing for the Certificate of Completion assessment
- Documenting your implementation project for verification
- Reviewing key concepts for mastery validation
- Submitting your work for expert evaluation
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Adding certification to LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Leveraging credentials in performance reviews and promotions
- Benchmarking your progress against industry standards
- Identifying next-level certifications and learning paths
- Joining the global alumni network for ongoing support
- Designing for cloud resilience and scalability
- Migrating legacy apps to cloud-native architectures
- Microservices: when to use them and when to avoid
- Service mesh fundamentals with Istio or Linkerd
- API gateway patterns and traffic management
- Event-driven architectures with Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Serverless computing: use cases and limitations
- Platform engineering as an enabler for developer productivity
- Internal developer portals with Backstage
- Standardising developer environments with containers
Module 10: Value Stream Mapping and Delivery Optimisation - Visualising your end-to-end software delivery pipeline
- Identifying bottlenecks in handoffs and approvals
- Measuring touch time vs wait time across stages
- Calculating true lead time from idea to production
- Using value stream maps to prioritise improvements
- Reducing batch size to accelerate flow
- Eliminating waste in rework, context switching, and delays
- Linking process improvements to business KPIs
- Tracking progress with value stream metrics
- Creating executive summaries for leadership review
Module 11: Advanced CI/CD Pipeline Patterns - Monorepo vs polyrepo: trade-offs and real-world implementation
- Multi-repo coordination with dependency versioning
- Trunk-based development with short-lived branches
- Automated dependency updates with Renovate
- Chaos engineering in CI: testing failure modes early
- Performance testing as part of automated pipelines
- Environment templating with dynamic provisioning
- Parallel testing strategies to reduce feedback time
- Gatekeeping quality with automated compliance checks
- Pipeline as code: defining workflows in YAML or Groovy
Module 12: Toolchain Integration and Orchestration - Selecting the right tools for your stack and scale
- Integrating Jira with CI/CD pipelines
- Synchronising Git commits with work items
- Using Slack or Microsoft Teams for delivery notifications
- Orchestrating workflows across Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI
- Centralising audit trails for compliance reporting
- Automating release notes generation
- Syncing environments with configuration management
- Creating single source of truth for deployment status
- Toolchain standardisation for enterprise consistency
Module 13: Advanced Testing Strategies - Test pyramid: unit, integration, E2E balance
- Contract testing with Pact for microservices
- Automated visual regression testing
- Accessibility testing in CI pipelines
- Performance benchmarking and tracking over time
- Load testing strategies for cloud environments
- Security testing automation with ZAP and SonarQube
- Regression test suite optimisation
- Test data management and anonymisation
- Flaky test detection and isolation
Module 14: Leading Organisational Transformation - Creating a DevOps transformation roadmap
- Piloting changes in a low-risk team or project
- Measuring and communicating early wins
- Scaling success across departments
- Developing internal champions and guilds
- Aligning transformation goals with executive priorities
- Training and upskilling teams effectively
- Managing change fatigue and maintaining momentum
- Creating feedback mechanisms for continuous adaptation
- Building a centre of excellence for DevOps
Module 15: Real-World Implementation Projects - Designing a CI/CD pipeline for a sample application
- Implementing infrastructure as code for a three-tier app
- Setting up monitoring and alerting for a microservice
- Conducting a blameless postmortem simulation
- Creating a value stream map for a live project
- Performing a DevOps maturity self-assessment
- Building a security policy as code for container deployment
- Running a feature toggle experiment in a test environment
- Automating compliance checks for GDPR or HIPAA
- Presenting a board-ready transformation proposal
Module 16: Certification, Career Advancement & Next Steps - Preparing for the Certificate of Completion assessment
- Documenting your implementation project for verification
- Reviewing key concepts for mastery validation
- Submitting your work for expert evaluation
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Adding certification to LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Leveraging credentials in performance reviews and promotions
- Benchmarking your progress against industry standards
- Identifying next-level certifications and learning paths
- Joining the global alumni network for ongoing support
- Monorepo vs polyrepo: trade-offs and real-world implementation
- Multi-repo coordination with dependency versioning
- Trunk-based development with short-lived branches
- Automated dependency updates with Renovate
- Chaos engineering in CI: testing failure modes early
- Performance testing as part of automated pipelines
- Environment templating with dynamic provisioning
- Parallel testing strategies to reduce feedback time
- Gatekeeping quality with automated compliance checks
- Pipeline as code: defining workflows in YAML or Groovy
Module 12: Toolchain Integration and Orchestration - Selecting the right tools for your stack and scale
- Integrating Jira with CI/CD pipelines
- Synchronising Git commits with work items
- Using Slack or Microsoft Teams for delivery notifications
- Orchestrating workflows across Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI
- Centralising audit trails for compliance reporting
- Automating release notes generation
- Syncing environments with configuration management
- Creating single source of truth for deployment status
- Toolchain standardisation for enterprise consistency
Module 13: Advanced Testing Strategies - Test pyramid: unit, integration, E2E balance
- Contract testing with Pact for microservices
- Automated visual regression testing
- Accessibility testing in CI pipelines
- Performance benchmarking and tracking over time
- Load testing strategies for cloud environments
- Security testing automation with ZAP and SonarQube
- Regression test suite optimisation
- Test data management and anonymisation
- Flaky test detection and isolation
Module 14: Leading Organisational Transformation - Creating a DevOps transformation roadmap
- Piloting changes in a low-risk team or project
- Measuring and communicating early wins
- Scaling success across departments
- Developing internal champions and guilds
- Aligning transformation goals with executive priorities
- Training and upskilling teams effectively
- Managing change fatigue and maintaining momentum
- Creating feedback mechanisms for continuous adaptation
- Building a centre of excellence for DevOps
Module 15: Real-World Implementation Projects - Designing a CI/CD pipeline for a sample application
- Implementing infrastructure as code for a three-tier app
- Setting up monitoring and alerting for a microservice
- Conducting a blameless postmortem simulation
- Creating a value stream map for a live project
- Performing a DevOps maturity self-assessment
- Building a security policy as code for container deployment
- Running a feature toggle experiment in a test environment
- Automating compliance checks for GDPR or HIPAA
- Presenting a board-ready transformation proposal
Module 16: Certification, Career Advancement & Next Steps - Preparing for the Certificate of Completion assessment
- Documenting your implementation project for verification
- Reviewing key concepts for mastery validation
- Submitting your work for expert evaluation
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Adding certification to LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Leveraging credentials in performance reviews and promotions
- Benchmarking your progress against industry standards
- Identifying next-level certifications and learning paths
- Joining the global alumni network for ongoing support
- Test pyramid: unit, integration, E2E balance
- Contract testing with Pact for microservices
- Automated visual regression testing
- Accessibility testing in CI pipelines
- Performance benchmarking and tracking over time
- Load testing strategies for cloud environments
- Security testing automation with ZAP and SonarQube
- Regression test suite optimisation
- Test data management and anonymisation
- Flaky test detection and isolation
Module 14: Leading Organisational Transformation - Creating a DevOps transformation roadmap
- Piloting changes in a low-risk team or project
- Measuring and communicating early wins
- Scaling success across departments
- Developing internal champions and guilds
- Aligning transformation goals with executive priorities
- Training and upskilling teams effectively
- Managing change fatigue and maintaining momentum
- Creating feedback mechanisms for continuous adaptation
- Building a centre of excellence for DevOps
Module 15: Real-World Implementation Projects - Designing a CI/CD pipeline for a sample application
- Implementing infrastructure as code for a three-tier app
- Setting up monitoring and alerting for a microservice
- Conducting a blameless postmortem simulation
- Creating a value stream map for a live project
- Performing a DevOps maturity self-assessment
- Building a security policy as code for container deployment
- Running a feature toggle experiment in a test environment
- Automating compliance checks for GDPR or HIPAA
- Presenting a board-ready transformation proposal
Module 16: Certification, Career Advancement & Next Steps - Preparing for the Certificate of Completion assessment
- Documenting your implementation project for verification
- Reviewing key concepts for mastery validation
- Submitting your work for expert evaluation
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Adding certification to LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Leveraging credentials in performance reviews and promotions
- Benchmarking your progress against industry standards
- Identifying next-level certifications and learning paths
- Joining the global alumni network for ongoing support
- Designing a CI/CD pipeline for a sample application
- Implementing infrastructure as code for a three-tier app
- Setting up monitoring and alerting for a microservice
- Conducting a blameless postmortem simulation
- Creating a value stream map for a live project
- Performing a DevOps maturity self-assessment
- Building a security policy as code for container deployment
- Running a feature toggle experiment in a test environment
- Automating compliance checks for GDPR or HIPAA
- Presenting a board-ready transformation proposal