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Certified DevSecOps Transformation Coach (CDAC) from Chicago State University

What is a DevSecOps Transformation Coach?

The DevOps Transformation Coach inspires teams and individuals with thought-provoking and creative processes. The core focus of the DevOps Transformation Coach is to enable and sustain the DevOps transformation. The DevOps Transformation Coach drives performance and is a catalyst for change, for individuals, teams and the organization. DevOps Transformation Coaches comprehend the essence of DevOps and how to coach teams in adopting DevOps principles or overcoming challenges. DevOps Transformation Coaches are familiar with various coaching models and instruments and are able to apply the best model for the organization and people at any point in time. The DevOps Transformation Coach has become a critical role in driving DevOps success and organizational performance as DevOps requires a cultural shift towards a new mindset, behaviors, and ways of working.

Organizational benefits of a DevSecOps Transformation Coach

Like all other hyper-growth trends in the IT industry, the adoption of DevOps is not immune to potential misunderstandings and misconceptions. Besides relevant tooling and technology, DevOps predominantly entails a cultural shift towards a new mindset, behaviors, a new organization, and a new way of working. DevOps Transformation Coaches within organizations make remarkable contributions on the ground in developing team members and teams into high performing teams with a new mindset, behaviors, organization, and a way of working. The objective of the Coach is to help teams develop their DevOps skills, knowledge, and behavior in order to rapidly become self-sufficient and fully leverage the benefits of DevOps. Coaches promote and facilitate teams that make them more competent and fulfilled so that they are proficient to contribute to their organization and find meaning in DevOps adoption. As a coach, you help to speed up delivery in teams, create more transparency, and build a continuous improvement mindset. At the Organization level, you provide strategic coaching and help organizations achieve their transformation goals.

The DevSecOps Transformation Coach Role

The role of DevSecOps Transformation Coach can be temporary or permanent, depending on the organization’s needs. Larger businesses might want to keep a DevOps Transformation Coach on staff to help oversee the sustained transformation on a long term basis, but the position is typically temporary or contracted. For most businesses, especially midsize and small organizations, it’s more useful to hire a DevOps Transformation Coach on a contract basis to help get jump start the DevOps Adoption and Transformation efforts.

DevSecOps Transformation Coach Responsibilities

Part of [the job] for DevOps Transformation Coaches is leveraging experience and teaching the basics to bring people up to speed with a DevOps culture and mindset. Since some employees might be unfamiliar with DevOps, it’s important to focus on the fundamentals and to make the DevOps framework accessible to everyone. As a DevOps Coach, you’ll need to have strong communication and interpersonal skills, since you’ll be working closely with employees across the entire company, including leadership. Chances are, you’ll find it difficult to convert some workers to the DevOps mindset and cultural shift. In these instances, you’ll need to know how to navigate the corporate culture to help the organization realize its goals. A good coach knows how to work with the team and the leadership to change the environment. Managers and management is often quietly resistant to agile because it fundamentally challenges their power and control. The coach works with the leadership to see the future and be patient along the journey. The coach also works with the team to help them transform to being self-managing and accountable. These are big changes. Most common responsibilities for a DevOps Transformation Coach include:

  • Encourages employees and stakeholders buy-in
  • Collaborates on the creation and evolution of the DevOps Transformation road-map and owns driving activities across the organization
  • Supports development and monitoring of DevOps adoption/maturity metrics to aid in accelerating overall DevOps Transformation efforts and to gauge the maturity progress of new and existing teams
  • Helps define and ensure consistent DevOps standards and best practices in alignment with the organization’s vision
  • Advances best practices for expanding DevOps to various Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, IBM, etc)
  • Develops and monitors metrics to track progress of DevOps adoption and maturity to aid in accelerating overall DevOps transformation efforts
  • Develops training materials and deliver across the organization
  • Provides individual DevOps Coaching to delivery team members, managers, executives, and other employees throughout the company
  • Participates, organizes, facilitates communities of practice to help foster lean and agile thinking Mentors Agile delivery teams, their coaches, stakeholders and leaders to help them adopt the mindset and practices needed to aid DevOps Transformation the organization
  • Educates the team on the best use of DevOps tools
  • Helps platform teams drive towards platform automation
  • Fosters teamwork and adherence to norms

DevSecOps Transformation Coach's Compensation

DevOps Transformation Coaches earn between $125/Hour to $250/Hour ($237,500 to $475,000 annually) if they work on a contract basis. DevOps Transformation Coaches with Developer and/or Architect background can earn upto even $300/Hour if they work on a contract basis. For full time employees, earnings between $135,000 and $300,000 with benefits is prevalent within the US. Demand for DevOps Coaches is expected to rise much faster than other IT roles and even other Coaching roles. Experience, training and certifications, location, and industry are several factors that would impact expected earnings of Agile Coaches. DevOps Transformation Coaches do work in one or more of the following roles:

  • DevSecOps Coach
  • Enterprise DevSecOps Coach
  • DevSecOps Transformation Coach
  • Technical Coach
  • DevSecOps Lead

Past Participants

Past participants of our Certified DevSecOps Transformation Coach training program came from variety of industries, including healthcare, banking, finance, credit card issuers, retail, oil and gas, manufacturing, distribution, transportation, communication and internet, energy, computer manufacturers, consulting firms, credit bureaus, network manufacturers, software, hardware, government organizations, satellite manufacturers, credit unions, and oil refineries to name several. Here are few of the 140+ organizations that our past participants represented: Walmart, Kroger, Target, Accenture, USAA, Shell, ExxonMobil, Citibank, Master Card, Visa, Duke Energy, Bank of America, IBM, FedEx, Aetna, Anthem, CVS, Walgreens, Tesla, Verizon, Infosys, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, CapitalOne, USPS, US Bank, Blackrock, CBRE, TD Ameritrade, Wipro, Micron, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Discover, Chevron, Ford, HP, Allstate, State Farm, Desjardins, Petrobras, Enterprise, US Coast Guard, US Department of State, UHG, FDA, SAIC, BCBS, HCSC, PepsiCo, Dell

Training opportunities for DevOps Transformation Coaches

We at Chicago State University offer several career enhancing training programs for DevSecOps Transformation Coaches. DevSecOps Transformation Coaches can pursue to attend one or more of the following training offered by us:

  1. Certified Agile Facilitator (CAF)
  2. Certified Agility Coach (CAC)
  3. Certified Agile Transformation Coach (CATC)
  4. Certified Enterprise Agility Coach (CEAC)
  5. Certified Business Agility Coach (CBAC)
  6. Certified Agile Leadership Professional (CALP)
  7. Certified Agile Change Practitioner (CACP)
  8. Certified Servant Leader Practitioner (CSLP)
  9. Certified Emotional Intelligence Practitioner (CEIP)

DevSecOps Transformation Coaches can earn a Master’s Certificate in Agile Management (MCAM) by completing training programs 1-4 in addition to Certified DevSecOps Transformation Coach (CDTC) training. They can further their advancement by earning Advanced Master’s Certificate in Agile Management (AMCAM) by completing training programs 5–9. Both the Master’s Certificate in Agile Management (MCAM) and the Advanced Master’s Certificate in Agile Management (AMCAM) are the first and only such programs in the world!

Eligibility for Master's Certificate

Completion of this Certified Enterprise Agility Coach (CEAC) training program fulfills 20% of the requirement to earn Master’s Certificate in Agile Management (MCAM). Participants are required to complete total of five Agile Training Programs from Chicago State University (CSU) to earn their Master’s Certificate in Agile Management–The world’s first and only program in Agile Field!
Agile Training Programs from Chicago State University
Master's Certificate in Agile Management
Master's Certificate in Agile Leadership
Advanced Master's Certificate in Agile Management (AMCAM)
Expert Certificate in Agile Management

Certified DevSecOps Transformation Coach (CDTC)

Issued by Chicago State University

General Information:

Type: Certification
Level: Intermediate
Schedule: Weekend [Sat – Sun]

Verification:

Name: Raghunath Angara
Course Schedule: May 20 - 21, 2023
Completion Date: May 21, 2023
Total Training Hours: 15
Certificate Number: 61-454-0192-93292

ISO Accreditation and Certification:

ISO 9001:2015: Yes
ISO 17024:2012: Yes
ISO 21001:2018: Yes
ISO 26515:2018: Yes

Information: This Certified DevOps Transformation Coach (CDAC) training program and all other Agile training programs from Chicago State University (CSU) are ISO 9001:2015, ISO 17024:2012, ISO 21001: 2018, and ISO 26515:2018 accredited and certified.

What is the purpose of ISO?
ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is an independent, non-governmental, international organization that develops standards to ensure the quality, safety, and efficiency of products, services, and systems.
How does ISO define quality?
The term "quality" has a relative meaning. This is expressed by the ISO definition: "The totality of features and characteristics of a product or service that bear on its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs"
Benefits of ISO
Some of the main benefits of ISO 9001 certification include:
  • Suitable for both small and large organizations.
  • Better internal management.
  • Less wastage.
  • Increase in efficiency, productivity and effectiveness.
  • Improved customer retention and acquisition.
  • Consistent outcomes, measured and monitored.
  • Globally recognized standard.
What is the meaning of ISO 9001:2015? ISO 9001:2015 specifies requirements for a quality management system when an organization:
a) needs to demonstrate its ability to consistently provide products and services that meet customer and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements;  b) aims to enhance customer satisfaction through the effective application of the system, including processes for improvement of the system and the assurance of conformity to customer and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements.

All the requirements of ISO 9001:2015 are generic and are intended to be applicable to any organization, regardless of its type or size, or the products and services it provides.

What is the meaning of ISO 17024:2012?

ISO/IEC 17024:2012 contains principles and requirements for a body certifying persons against specific requirements, and includes the development and maintenance of a certification scheme for persons. The nature and complexity of the IT industry/Agile Industry has created hundreds of training courses and qualifications over the years. Many are vendor-specific and – in terms of training staff to configure and operate these products – provide a perfectly adequate demonstration of knowledge and skills. They are, however, often linked to the purchase of products and, as such, are subject to the commercial bias of a very competitive IT marketplace. ISO 17024:2012 – recognized by employers worldwide Independent and accredited exam bodies such as ISACA, (ISC)2, Chicago State University's Agile Training Programs, CompTIA, APMG, and IBITGQ have been created to counteract the commercial bias of vendors, and to provide consistent and comparable qualifications on an international basis. But who verifies the independence and quality of the courses and exams offered by these organizations?

The ISO/IEC 17024:2012 standard (Conformity assessment – General requirements for bodies operating certification of persons) specifies that accredited exam bodies:

  • Meet a global, industry-recognized benchmark
  • Are consistent, comparable and reliable worldwide
  • Demonstrate that holders have the necessary knowledge and skills
  • Are validated to ensure they are recognized by employers and peers

Employers and training development managers recognize the value of ISO 17024:2012, and it’s no coincidence that the careers of Agile Practitioner are built on the foundations of ISO 17024:2012 qualifications.

What is the meaning of ISO 21001:2018?

ISO 21001:2018 specifies requirements for a management system for educational organizations (EOMS) when such an organization: a) needs to demonstrate its ability to support the acquisition and development of competence through teaching, learning or research; b) aims to enhance satisfaction of learners, other beneficiaries and staff through the effective application of its EOMS, including processes for improvement of the system and assurance of conformity to the requirements of learners and other beneficiaries. All requirements of ISO 21001:2018 are generic and intended to be applicable to any organization that uses a curriculum to support the development of competence through teaching, learning or research, regardless of the type, size or method of delivery. ISO 21001:2018 can be applied to educational organizations within larger organizations whose core business is not education, such as professional training departments.


ISO 26515:2018 Systems and software engineering — Developing information for users in an agile environment

This standard supports the interest of information developers and associated roles responsible for producing information for users of software and systems developed within an agile environment. This standard takes a process standard approach to specify the way in which information for users can be developed in agile development projects.
This standard provides requirements of information management and information development processes appropriate for software projects that are using agile development methods.
It covers:
  • The overall requirements for information in agile software development.
  • Requirements for the information development lead or project manager to plan an agile information development project and manage the information development activities in an agile environment.
  • Requirements for designing, developing, and providing information for users in an agile environment.
  • Describes agile development practices and methods.

Skills:

  • DevSecOps Mindset
  • DevSecOps Culture
  • DevSecOps Pipeline
  • Configuration Management
  • Continuous Exploration (CE)
  • Continuous Integration (CI)
  • Continuous Deployment (CD)
  • Release On Demand
  • Test Strategy
  • Test Automation
  • DevSecOps Adoption Challenges

Certificate Earning Criteria:

  • Attendance in the training course
  • Active participation in training course – Group Activities, Quizzes, Group Discussions, Q & A, Comments, etc.

CEUs Eligibility:

  • PDUs from PMI – 15 [PMP, PgMP, PfMP, ACP, and PBA certifications]
  • SEUs from Scrum Alliance – 15 [CSP-SM, CSP-PO, CSM, CSPO certifications]
  • CDUs from IIBA’s – 15 [CCBA and CBAP certifications]

Course Description:

About Training

The DevSecOps Transformation Coaching Workshop is a training program focusing on the factors/traits/skillsets necessary to accomplishing Enterprise-wide DevSecOps Transformation. This is a highly interactive workshop that makes ample use of discussions and exercises to help participants learn the soft skills necessary to have a successful and sustainable DevOps Transition and Transformation. Participants will learn about DevSecOps Culture, DevSecOps Life-cycle, and DevSecOps adoption challenges. The course focuses four distinct aspects in an integral fashion: Continuous Exploration (CE), Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD), and Release on Demand to equip agilists and leaders to have smoother DevSecOps transformation. Some of the elements that participants will learn during the workshop:

  • Build a culture of shared responsibility, collaboration, and coordination across the value stream
  • Identify and explain how DevOps will help improving the software development process
  • Describe and apply Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment practices and techniques
  • Measure the flow through the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
  • Identify and describe roles and responsibilities within DevSecOps

Learning Objectives

Mastering DevSecOps Transformation Coaching skills will require both time and practice. At the conclusion of this training program, participants will be able to:

  • Learn what DevSecOps is and why it is important
  • Build a culture of shared responsibility, collaboration, and coordination across the value stream
  • Identify, describe, and apply DevSecOps Best Practices and Principles
  • Identify and explain how DevSecOps will help improving the software development process
  • Continuously explore user needs
  • Build and integrate the system continuously
  • Describe and apply Configuration Management Practices
  • Describe and apply Continuous Integration techniques and practices
  • Integrate DevSecOps with testing strategies to improving delivery quality
  • Describe and apply Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment practices and techniques
  • Measure the flow through the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
  • Identify and describe roles and responsibilities within DevSecOps
  • Learn DevOps Adoption challenges

Topics Covered

1. Introduction to DevSecOps
2. DevSecOps Mindset
3. Delivery Pipeline
4. Basics of Configuration Management
5. Continuous Exploration (CE)
6. Continuous Integration (CI)
7. Continuous Deployment (CD)
8. Release On Demand
9. Test Strategy
10. DevSecOps Adoption Challenge

Pre-requisites

  1. Knowledge of Agile Manifesto and Agile Methods (Scrum, Kanban, XP) would be very helpful.
  2. Willingness to learn as to how DevOps plays a key role in Agile Transformation.
  3. Interested to work with Senior Leaders and Executives in terms of DevOps Transformation.
  4. Willingness to learn and apply softskills and people skills.
  5. Strategic thinker.
  6. Curious, eager, patient, and calm.

Who should attend?

This course is designed for:

  • Project, Program, and Portfolio Professionals who aspire to learn about DevOps.
  • Experienced Scrum Masters, Agile Project/Program Managers or Iteration Managers who want a more comprehensive understanding of the complete range of DevOps functionalities and how it can help to achieve Agility.
  • Current Agile coaches who want to enhance and improve their professional skills to learn and adopt DevSecOps.
  • Coaches who wish to increase the ability to break through seemingly insurmountable problems with their DevSecOps adoption and implementation.
  • Agile managers, Product Owners and others wishing to access a broader range of skills in DevSecOps.
  • Agile Transformation Leaders, Change Agents, Agile Managers, Portfolio Managers, Agile Business Leaders, Process Improvement Professionals, and other Agilists wishing to learn DevOps to support continuous and sustainable business and enterprise agility.
  • Senior leaders (Directors, VPs/SVPs, CIOs, Business/IT Executives, etc).

Contact Information:

Phone: (800) 417-4940 Email: info@agility4all.com Corporate Training Inquiry: training@agility4all.com

Course Calendar:

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