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  • Why Your Manager Will Want to Send You to Jenkins World 2017

    Why Your Manager Will Want to Send You to Jenkins World 2017

    Jenkins World 2017 is right around the corner. The conference will be held in San Francisco Aug. 28-31 and will be the biggest event of the year for Jenkins users, with approximately 2,000 people expected to be in attendance! You will not want to miss out on this event, full of learning and networking opportunities.

    Need some help convincing your manager why you should attend? No problem—we have laid out all the reasons why attending would be beneficial to you and your company. Once you have convinced your manager to attend, don’t forget to register today! (As a media sponsor for Jenkins World, we are providing a special offer for our readers. Register with this promotional code and get 20 percent off your registration: JWDEVOPSCUST.

    Educational Value

    Jenkins World will be offering more than 60 educational sessions given by real Jenkins experts—a chance to learn from the most experienced users. Did we mention that you can also receive a free Jenkins exam with the purchase of a full conference registration? Imagine the benefits for both your résumé and team.

    At the conference, you’ll be able to take advantage of great training sessions to better enhance your Jenkins capabilities. The training sessions include Jenkins Certification Training, Introduction to Jenkins, DevOps Leader Certification Training and DevOps Test Engineering Certification Training. We recommend highlighting to your manager what sessions you will want to attend in advance. Check out the full agenda here.

    Jenkins World is offering keynotes from many industry leaders. Be sure to emphasize to your manager the importance of hearing from the very best in the Jenkins community, live on stage and in the breakout sessions. From Jenkins founder Kohsuke Kawaguchi to CloudBees CEO Sacha Labourey and featured speaker Jez Humble, your manager will greatly appreciate the knowledge you bring back to the office from listening to such experienced industry experts.

    Networking Opportunities 

    The Jenkins World conference will provide numerous networking opportunities. Learn what similar problems and challenges other organizations are facing in the industry. Make it known to your manager that you will be exposed to people like you, with like business needs and challenges, that you will be able to connect with.

    Prove ROI

    When convincing your manager to let you attend, it is first important to make them aware of the potential ROI of this opportunity. Detail exactly your expenses including airfare, hotels and meals. This will better help your manager understand the exact cost to send you to Jenkins World. Make sure you also present how this knowledge will help push you and your team forward, ultimately propelling your entire organization forward. The ROI will be evident – make that clear! (And the ROI just got better, because devopsy.kinsta.cloud readers can use this discount code and get 20 percent off: JWDEVOPSCUST.)

    We hope this provides enough information to help you convince your manager to let you attend! We have also created an email template to use when sending all this over to your manager for review. Once you have successfully convinced your boss, go register!

    — Alan Shimel

  • REP SPOTLIGHT: Xellentro Consulting Services

    REP SPOTLIGHT: Xellentro Consulting Services

    DevOps Institute: Tell us a little about your organization.

    Xellentro: Xellentro Consulting Services LLP is an emerging global provider of project, program and portfolio management, IT service management consulting and training services. Established in 2012, with headquarters in Bangalore, India, Xellentro works closely with its clients in tackling their most difficult organizational development challenges. Xellentro is a specialist organization that works with its clients to identify improvement areas and uses experienced consultants to enhance their business and development processes.

    While the realm of management consulting is vast and a number of firms provide a range of advisory services—starting from niche areas to general management domains—what differentiates us is our practitioner’s approach where we don’t limit ourselves only to advisory and rather prefer to stay on till envisaged benefits are realized and final outcomes are delivered. We bring in huge experience across industry verticals.

    DOI: What other topics do you teach or consult on?

    Xellentro: ITIL Foundation, Intermediate, Practitioner, Expert, Scrum Master and Product Owner, PRINCE2, PRINCE2 Agile, MSP, MoP, PMP, Lean Six Sigma

    DOI: What type of interest in DevOps are you seeing in your region?

    Xellentro: There is interest mainly from corporates.

    DOI: How do you think that DevOps contributes to the business’s value stream?

    Xellentro: This will be a good extension to the ITSM and with Agile being used everywhere, DevOps will have a great value.

    DOI: What topic area in DevOps excites you the most?

    Xellentro: The concept of having both Development and Operations working together is very important to finally deliver value to business.

    DOI: Why should enterprises and individuals consider formal DevOps training?

    Xellentro: To really understand the culture change and not focus on only the tools/automation part of it.

  • Rep Spotlight: Global Lynx

    Rep Spotlight: Global Lynx

    DevOps Institute: Tell us a little about your organization:

    Global Lynx: Global Lynx is a leading and fast-growing IT consulting and training company that assists companies and government agencies improve the competence and skills of their IT organization, enhance the maturity of their IT governance and improve the quality and effectiveness of their IT operations, services and processes.

    Since 1996, Global Lynx experts have helped organizations in five different countries, improving—and often transforming—their IT operations through the implementation of effective frameworks for IT governance, ITSM (IT services management), PMO (project management office) and information security.

    As an Accredited Training Organization (ATO), Global Lynx also offers a wide variety of IT courseware covering different areas, standards, frameworks and methodologies, and at various levels of expertise.

    Global Lynx trainers are experienced consultants, certified in multiple IT disciplines. They have actual firsthand experience in their areas of IT expertise, as well as experience in delivering training programs.

    DOI: What other topics do you teach or consult on?

    Global Lynx: IT service management, IT corporate governance, IT audit, information security, cyber resilience, IT risk management, cloud computing, project management, SCRUM, business continuity, process design and implementation, and enterprise value creation.

    DOI: What type of interest in DevOps are you seeing in your region?

    Global Lynx: Companies are interested in obtaining a common understanding of DevOps concepts and best practices, and they are focusing on deploying these practices organization-wide.

    DOI: How do you think that DevOps contributes to the business’s value stream?

    Global Lynx: The digital disruption all industries are experiencing, has created the need for IT to be embedded in every single business unit. Solid DevOps practices will help IT organizations deliver higher value to their customers, as value is delivered through operations, but it is defined and enabled in the development stages. Value should be managed not only in operations, but rather from the early stages of the service life cycle. A mature IT organization cannot have a poor collaboration and communication culture; without this, value creation will be limited to technical value instead of real business value.

    DOI: What topic area in DevOps excites you the most?

    Global Lynx: How DevOps interfaces other frameworks and how all of them can work together toward creating value to the customer.

    DOI: Why should enterprises and individuals consider formal DevOps training?

    Global Lynx: DevOps is all about people, and it is enabled by people. If a person is not committed, that person will do little to support the DevOps initiative. People need to go through formal DevOps training to learn what DevOps is, and how their role impacts the initiative and how they contribute to value creation. Certification is a plus, as it gives people a personal benefit. People will naturally react positively to something they own, because they will believe in it.

  • Introducing PEOPLECERT, DOI’s Examination Partner

    Introducing PEOPLECERT, DOI’s Examination Partner

    The DevOps Institute (DOI) is proud to introduce you to PEOPLECERT, our strategic examination and accreditation partner. Since DOI’s inception in 2015, PEOPLECERT has been supporting our Registered Education Partners and administering DOI’s certification exams worldwide. To date, these certifications include DevOps Foundation®, Certified Agile Service Manager (CASM)® and Certified Agile Process Owner (CAPO)®. Going forward, PEOPLECERT will help DOI create additional DevOps qualifications as emerging practices highlight the need for the assessment of specific knowledge, skills and expertise.

    For the past 15 years, PEOPLECERT has been the global leader in the assessment and certification of professional skills by developing and delivering leading qualifications around the world.  In fact, you may already be familiar with PEOPLECERT – it currently offers certification schemes in several IT frameworks including ITIL®, COBIT 5®, PRINCE2®, PRINCE2 Agile® and Lean Six Sigma. PEOPLECERT focuses on both the individual candidate and the business organization. It helps IT professionals reach their full potential by achieving certification that demonstrates proficiency. PEOPLECERT also helps organizations achieve their goals by certifying that staff have the skills and knowledge to contribute to the business value stream.

    The DevOps Institute chose PEOPLECERT as our strategic partner because of its unwavering commitment to continual improvement and innovation. The organization has demonstrated these values by meeting the rigorous requirements several ISO standards. Working together, DOI and PEOPLECERT will ensure that all DOI certifications meet the highest levels of quality, integrity and relevance. In addition, PEOPLECERT’s state-of-the-art assessment system provides candidate support from exam registration to exam delivery and the issuance of the certificate. Its award-winning online proctoring services provide flexible solutions for REPs and candidates while addressing the growing trend of virtual training. It has worked hard to ensure that the candidate experience is positive and professional.

    DOI is so confident in PEOPLECERT’s capabilities that we have expanded our partnership to include the accreditation of training organizations and instructors. Not only does PEOPLECERT’s global presence extend DOI’s learning community, its accreditation processes are thorough, expedient and conform to internationally accepted standards. This ability will allow us to be more responsive to the needs of the learning community.

    Coupled with DOI’s go-to-market training materials, our Registered Education Partners are able to stand up DevOps certification courses quickly and often to enable more individuals and organizations to gain access to the latest training,certification and knowledge about emerging DevOps practices.

    DevOps Foundation®, Certified Agile Service Manager (CASM)®, Certified Agile Process Owner (CAPO)® & Agile Service Management® are registered marks of the DevOps Institute.
    ITIL®/PRINCE2®/ PRINCE2 Agile® are registered trade marks of AXELOS Limited, used under permission of AXELOS Limited. RESILIA™ is a trade mark of AXELOS Limited, used under permission of AXELOS Limited. All rights reserved.
    COBIT® 5 is a registered trademark of ISACA in United States and other countries.
  • Developing your organisation’s collective consciousness

    Developing your organisation’s collective consciousness

    Many organizations across the world are taking a long, hard look at DevOps and wondering how they can start to take advantage of its benefits.

    The 2014 State of DevOps report has some pretty compelling facts:

    • Companies using DevOps are twice as likely to exceed profitability, market share, and productivity goals
    • They will have 50 percent higher market capitalization and growth than rival businesses

    DevOps might just be the key to organizational survival in the modern business environment.

    Sounds good!

    So, where do we start?

    Organizations  that want to start getting the benefits of DevOps need to recognize their implementation for what it is – organizational change. No, not hard-core bureaucratic change management with millions of forms to fill in, but an initiative that needs to win hearts and minds across the organizational.

    Remember – DevOps isn’t just an IT thing, and it isn’t just a business thing. It’s about collaboration, communication and integration right across our organizational.

    To be successful with any organizational change, there are a few simple things we need. We need a goal, we need a plan, and we need some enthusiasm. If we can’t get our people enthused and bring them with us, our goal and our plan will not have the momentum they need.

    One way to build enthusiasm and a common starting point is through education. It’s really important that every stakeholder understands the goal, the plan, and feels they have the tools, skills and level of empowerment to contribute.

    Getting staff the training they need can help build their capabilities and create a common understanding across the organization – a collective consciousness. DevOps is a simple concept, but some of the terminology that comes with it won’t be familiar to everyone. When you start to talk about continuous delivery and continuous deployment, you want to be sure that everyone is on the same page!

    DevOps implementations can learn from the way organizations have adopted other frameworks in the past. Common mistakes include a statement of management intent with no plan behind it – saying you’re doing DevOps doesn’t mean you are. Making sure your staff are all speaking a common language can really help to deliver success.

    The DevOps Foundation course from the DevOps Institute is a great way to start building that collective consciousness and get your staff involved in your DevOps initiative.

    The syllabus has been developed by leaders in the DevOps community and looks at where DevOps has come from, and covers topics including:

    • DevOps Culture
    • Organizational Considerations
    • DevOps Practices (the three ways)
    • DevOps and IT Service Management Processes
    • Automation Practices and Tool Categories

    Once your staff are trained, you can start to have a collective conversation about where you can make improvements in your organization, building on a common foundation.

    To get the most from your training, make sure staff know why they are attending the classroom course or taking the e-learning, and then have a plan to build on what they’ve learnt when they are finished.

    Read more about DevOps courses and find training providers here: http://devopsinstitute.com/doi-reps/

    About the Author/Claire Agutter

    Claire Headshot 3Claire Agutter is the lead trainer for ITSM Zone, global e-learning providers for IT management professionals. Claire has more than 15 years of IT management experience and loves anything that helps the business and IT work together to create value.
    ITSM Zone are the DevOps Institute’s exclusive e-learning partner.