DevOps Foundations: Lean and Agile
2h 10mIntermediate2025-05-30
Authors

Ernest Mueller
Director of Engineering at Six Nines IT

Karthik Gaekwad
Veteran engineer who enjoys building software products from scratch
Course details
Discover how to enhance your DevOps software delivery process with agile and lean principles. Join industry experts Ernest Mueller and Karthik Gaekwad as they delve into the core concepts, techniques, and real-world applications of these powerful systems. Learn how to optimize your team's workflow, reduce lead time, and improve the overall quality of your software. Check out this course to learn about implementing agile and lean practices in your organization, leading to faster time-to-market, increased customer satisfaction, and improved business outcomes.
Learning objectives
Define agile, lean, and DevOps principles and summarize their core practices.
Explain how to participate as an active part of a high-performing team that delivers value rapidly and reliably.
Illustrate specific ways to use agile, lean, and DevOps techniques to control work, make it visible, and empower the people working on it to continuously learn and improve.
Describe metrics and ways of measuring progress and success to make data-driven decisions within your project teams.
Learning objectives
Define agile, lean, and DevOps principles and summarize their core practices.
Explain how to participate as an active part of a high-performing team that delivers value rapidly and reliably.
Illustrate specific ways to use agile, lean, and DevOps techniques to control work, make it visible, and empower the people working on it to continuously learn and improve.
Describe metrics and ways of measuring progress and success to make data-driven decisions within your project teams.
Skills covered
Agile Project ManagementDevOps FoundationsProject Management SkillsDevOpsProject ManagementFoundations
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Getting started with lean and agile
1. Lean, Agile, and DevOps Basics
- 02 - What is agile
- 03 - Agile principles
- 04 - Agile in practice - Scrum
- 05 - Agile in practice - Kanban
- 06 - What is lean
- 07 - Lean in practice
- 08 - What is DevOps
- 09 - DevOps in practice
2. Implementing Agile, Lean, and DevOps in Practice
- 10 - Welcome to Red30 Technologies
3. First Iteration - Empowering the Individual
- 11 - Agile - Updating our practices
- 12 - Exercise - Create a work board
- 13 - Solution - Create a work board
- 14 - DevOps - Getting started building
- 15 - Measuring success
- 16 - Learning and adapting
4. Second Iteration - Empowering the Team
- 17 - Agile - Building a resilient team
- 18 - Agile - Describing the work
- 19 - DevOps - Release practices
- 20 - DevOps - Infrastructure practices
- 21 - Advanced measurement - Scrum
- 22 - Advanced measurement - Kanban
- 23 - Exercise - Size your work
- 24 - Solution - Size your work
- 25 - Learning by working together
- 26 - Learning from experience
5. Third Iteration - Empowering the Organization
- 27 - Agile - Organizational scaling
- 28 - Exercise - Create a value stream
- 29 - Solution - Create a value stream
- 30 - DevOps - Scaling DevOps
- 31 - Building a culture of metrics
- 32 - Continuous learning
6. The Road Ahead
- 33 - Organizing for action
- 34 - Addressing doubts
- 35 - Advanced topics
Conclusion
- 36 - Continuing on with lean and agile