DevOps, Cloud, and Agile Foundations
Offered By: IBM via edX
Course Description
Overview
This professional certificate will equip you with a foundational understanding of DevOps, Cloud Computing, Agile and Scrum and their transformational impact on businesses and approaches to software engineering.
This professional certificate is suitable for both technical audiences - who want to either upskill with DevOps or start a career in this in-demand domain to become DevOps Engineers, Software Engineers, Application Developers, SREs, Cloud Specialists, etc., as well as non-technical audiences - including managers, executives, product managers, and project managers who want to help with transforming an organization using DevOps and Agile development practices.
Organizations are adopting DevOps practices at a rapid pace. More than 70% of organizations worldwide have introduced DevOps to projects, making DevOps skills in high demand.
You will learn about the DevOps culture and its benefits, Cloud Computing fundamentals, the Agile philosophy, and Scrum methodology. You will familiarize yourself with the skills, technology, tools, processes, practices, and metrics to become a successful DevOps practitioner.
Software Engineers, Programmers, Full Stack Developers, Cloud Architects, Cloud Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), and IT Managers all benefit from understanding and practicing DevOps.
In this professional certificate, Cloud Computing is described along with its essential characteristics, models, benefits, infrastructure, and emerging trends. Cloud computing is a catalyst/enabler for organizations to use DevOps methodologies.
The last component of this professional certificate explains the Agile philosophy, how to work as an Agile team, and Scrum methodology, including the roles, meetings, rules, and artifacts, how to write user stories, and execute Sprint Plans.
Syllabus
Course 1: DevOps Basics for Everyone
This course is intended to help launch your career as a DevOps Professional. In this course you will learn to think, work, organize and measure DevOps - skills that you can use to build better products.
Course 2: Introduction to Cloud Computing
Jumpstart your cloud expertise and explore offerings of AWS, Google, and IBM; delve into IaaS, PaaS, SaaS models, and cloud security. Experience IBM Cloud app deployment. Perfect for executives, students, and budding professionals.
Course 3: Agile and Scrum Fundamentals
This course will benefit anyone who wants to get started with working the Agile way. It is particularly suitable for IT practitioners such as software developers, development managers, project managers, product managers, and executives.
Courses
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After successfully completing this course, you will be able to embrace the Agile concepts of adaptive planning, iterative development, and continuous improvement - resulting in early deliveries and value to customers. This course will benefit anyone who wants to get started with working the Agile way. It is particularly suitable for IT practitioners such as software developers, development managers, project managers, product managers, and executives.
You will learn to apply Agile practices derived from lean manufacturing concepts, like test-driven development. Learn how a scrum team functions. Learn how to write good user stories and track your team’s progress using a kanban board. Create and refine a product backlog collaboratively with the team and the customer, in a flexible and blameless culture. This approach will lead you to higher levels of efficiency, with the ability to plan and execute sprints with your development team, measuring success with actionable metrics. This course is about more than facts and processes. It is about working collaboratively on a self-organizing team, coached by a scrum master, and building what is needed, rather than simply following a plan. Developed and taught by an experienced Agile practitioner, the course includes hands-on practice through realistic scenario-based labs using GitHub and ZenHub.
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The DevOps Basics for Everyone course explores DevOps as a cultural movement. By thinking from a DevOps perspective, you will be able to build better products for your customer. This course provides views of DevOps from both a business perspective and as a DevOps engineer.
You will learn about building a business case for DevOps, the essentials of DevOps, and receive a brief history of DevOps. Additionally, new ways of thinking, working, organizing, and measuring to fully gain the benefits of DevOps methodologies will also be taught.
You will learn how breaking down silos and organizing developers and operators into single cross-functional teams is necessary for truly adopting DevOps. Having everyone contributing and being responsible is at the core of being successful at applying DevOps.
You will see how building a culture of shared responsibility and transparency is the foundation of every high performing DevOps team.
Exploring the key concepts of infrastructure for DevOps Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery is taught during this course. You will be able to use actionable measures that apply directly to decision making that will ultimately result in continuous improvement.
The course wraps up with a case study of a DevOps scenario for you to test and apply your newly acquired DevOps knowledge.
Taught by
John Rofrano and Rav Ahuja
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