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Release Trains

This comprehensive training program is designed to help enterprises master the highly sought-after skill of managing DevOps release trains. By participating in this program, organisations will gain the knowledge and expertise required to achieve delivery on demand, leveraging industry-leading best practices in continuous integration and continuous delivery. With a focus on practical implementations and real-world scenarios, participants will learn how to streamline their software development processes, enhance collaboration between development and operations teams, and ensure the smooth and efficient delivery of high-quality software products. By the end of the program, participants will be equipped with the skills and strategies necessary to drive continuous improvement and deliver value to their customers promptly.

 

Training Material for the Designers ( RTE )

Curriculum

Training For

  1. Executives > Top Management

  2. Application Team

  3. Infrastructure Team

  4. Security Team

  5. Management > Team Managers

  6. Program Managers

  7. Product  Owners

  8. Developers

  9. Operations

  10. Infrastructure 

  11. Applications

  12. Security

 

Topic Assessment - Top-Down Design

Duration 2 days 

Roles

  • Management / Executives

  • Application Team

  • Infrastructure Team

  • Security Team

  • Program Managers

  • Product  Owners

Content

  • Setting up objectives and key results

  • 3 Stages of the Implementation/Scope for release trains

  • Document current requirements management for ALM

  • Document the Current implementation of ALM

  • Assessment Sheet Start Manual Capture

  • Bottom-up Documentation and Collaboration Tools

  • DevSecOps Maturity Model

  • DevSecOps Maturity Model Continous Assessment

  • DSL Release Trains ( Roles / Stakeholders )

  • Devops And Culture Shift

  • First Principles

  • Documentation C.o.d.e / Video

  • Automation frameworks and roles

  • Risks Identification

 

Topic Assessment - Design Summary

  • Duration 2 days 

  • Roles Management

  • Program Managers

  • Product  Owners

  • Content Data Collection Process

  • Meeting Coordination for Safe(scaled agile frameworks)

  • DevOps DSL for Workflows and Use Cases

  • Skills and Tools gaps and how to identify them

  • Project Management from manual to continuous process

  • Shift Left Solutions to Identify Problems

  • One DevOps team implementation

 

Topic Assessment - Executive Roadmap 

  • Duration 2 days 

  • Roles Management

  • Program Managers

  • Product  Owners 

  • Content Main Goal for the enterprise and obstacles

  • Continuous Integration

  • Continuous Delivery

  • Continuous Deployment

  • Unified Repo and Infrastructure

  • Maturity Framework and Use Cases

  • Challenges ahead

 

Topic Future State - Security Roadmap 

  • Duration 1 day 

  • Roles Security

  • Content Approval of the design from the security team

  • Before and after the state of the security environment

  • Security System Core

  • Demo for security

 

Topic Future State - Development Roadmap 

  • Duration 1 days 

  • Roles Development

  • Content Approval From Development Teams

  • Visual State machine-based workflows

  • Define the target operating model to increase maturity

  • Automated distilled SDLC distilled reporting

  • Demos for the development of CI/CD

  • Key Processes and Principles

  • Key results 1 integrate > 2 deliver > 3 automate

 

Topic Future State - Operations Roadmap 

  • Duration 1 days 

  • Roles Operations 

  • Infrastructure 

  • Applications

  • Content Design Approval From Operations

  • Demo for Operations Workflows

  • Define the target operating model ( Datasources /Networks)

 

Topic Future State - Plan Sign-off

  • Duration 1 day 

  • Roles Executives

  • Application Team

  • Infrastructure Team

  • Security Team

  • Content Outputs of the Framework 

  • Workflow task guidelines and questions

  • Additional Use Cases

  • Approvals from Stakeholders

  • Calendar and Deliverables

  • Process Flows for Strategy

  • Future State Delivery Methods

  • AI-based workflows

  • Continuous deployment

  • Framework components

 

Topic Future State - Plan for CI/CD

  • Duration 5 days 

  • Roles Management

  • Program Managers

  • Product  Owners 

  • Content Create a system to fix regularly

  • C.O.D.E and Document framework for ALM

  • End-to-End Design Plan

  • Approvals from Stakeholders

  • Calendar and Delivarables

  • Primary roles and responsibilities

  • Plan and Strategy Templates

  • Sow Templates for Workflows

  • Tools Transition Plan

  • Team capacity planning 

  • Communicate with Chatops for SDLC

  • Skills Gaps Planning

  • Checklists for all process types

  • Process Tailoring Guidelines

  • Templates for all required E2E project Artifacts

  • Execution Report Templates

  • Status Reports Templates

  • E2E IT Delivery Execution Plan

  • Future team visualization

  • Agile release train > scaled agile framework ( safe )

  • Load all components old/current/upcoming

  • Teams/calendar coordination

  • Publish requirements system turns on

  • Documentation

  • Before and after release train

  • Support plans from the vendors

  • Alm ci cd redesign continuous assessment task management

 

 

 

Topic Implementation - Building CI/CD Frameworks

  • Duration 5 days 

  • Roles Operations 

  • Infrastructure 

  • Applications

  • Content Problem definition and shift left

  • Framework aware terms

  • The core team and expanding safe

  • Pair programming

  • Workshops collaborate

  • Int server for ci

  • Service principal user types and access

  • All eyes on-premises gateway

  • Infrastructure support

  • Data sources/connectors

  • Skills gaps > workshop outputs

  • Operators to be ready to build


 

Topic Implementation - Building CI/CD Frameworks

  • Duration 5 days 

  • Roles Developers

  • Content Release on demand

  • Framework > to load all components

  • Pull-based design source

  • Workflows > req gathering

  • E2e design plan for release train

  • Framework terms ci/cd

  • Framework components

  • Framework base

  • Documentation

  • Use case delivery stages

  • Hand over (communicate)

  • Workflow output ( build example )

  • Future state visualise ci > cd

  • Framework input and outputs

  • Connected sources to AI

  • Workflow distil section

  • Hands-on implement dsl

  • Workflows ci/cd key results

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