Understanding Business Agility and DevOps

The need for DevOps in SAFe®

Core SAFe® and DevOps principles

Introduction to the Continuous Delivery Pipeline

Understanding the CALMR approach (Culture, Automation, Lean Flow, Measurement, Recovery)

Identifying bottlenecks and flow inefficiencies in the pipeline

Understanding customer needs through Design Thinking

Defining hypotheses, innovation cycles, and experimentation

Using Lean UX and market research

Agile development practices and built-in quality

Automated testing and integrating work frequently

Branching strategies, version control, and test automation

Deployment automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Using feature toggles and blue-green deployments

Security, compliance, and governance in SAFe® DevOps

Decoupling releases from deployments

Feature flags and progressive rollouts

Monitoring, telemetry, and incident management

Using Flow Metrics: Lead Time, Deployment Frequency, Change Failure Rate

Value Stream Mapping (VSM) for process improvements

Improving feedback loops and enabling continuous learning

Creating a DevOps action plan for your organization

Scaling DevOps across teams and ARTs (Agile Release Trains)

Organizational change and leadership buy-in