Continuous Delivery Using Azure DevOps Services

Intended for experienced software development professionals, this hands-on course covers DevOps as supported by Azure, Azure DevOps Services, and Visual Studio in the practice of continually delivering working software at scale.

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Get hands-on experience working as a team in an Azure DevOps environment.
Learn to configure Azure DevOps for product development.
Practice creating and managing Azure Pipeline builds, as well as installing and configuring Azure Pipeline agents.
Understand the value of building a culture of learning and improvement

This course provides students with the DevOps principles and related hands-on practices to work better as a team, scale their agility, share and integrate their work, and deliver working software continuously in order to enable faster delivery of value and receive early and valuable feedback. Utilizing more than 50 hands-on activities, students work as a team, a pair, or individually using the tools that reinforce the DevOps principles and practices they are learning. Students will self-organize into cross-functional, collocated teams and work collaboratively on a case study using a shared Azure DevOps environment. All code will be provided.

Who Should Attend

This course is intended for experienced software development professionals who want to learn about DevOps in order to achieve Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Feedback, and Continuous Learning in a technical value stream as supported by Azure DevOps Services, Visual Studio, and Azure in order to continually deliver working software at scale. Students will also install and evaluate several extensions from the Azure DevOps Marketplace. Those who use Azure DevOps Server (Team Foundation Server) will also benefit from this course. Attendees should be familiar with C#, Visual Studio, Scrum, and have basic experience with Azure DevOps Services or Azure DevOps Server.

Questions? 929.777.8102 [email protected]

Course Outline

Increasing Flow at Scale

The complexity of software development

The need for empirical process control

Increasing flow through a technical value stream

Scrum and Professional Scrum

The Nexus scaled Scrum framework

Practices for organizing teams

Establishing feature teams to minimize dependencies

Planning and Executing at Scale

Organizing and refining the Product Backlog

Creating a definition of “Ready”

Dependencies, types, and related risks

Cross-team refinement to identify dependencies

Planning and executing a Sprint

Limiting work in progress (WIP)

Working in small batches

Creating and obeying a definition of “Done”

Using queries, charts, and dashboards for reporting

Sharing Code

Working collaboratively as a team

Collective ownership mindset

Git version control workflow (optional)

Branching strategies and related side effects

Using Code Maps to visualize code dependencies

Using Package Management to share binaries

Adopting an internal open source model

Integrating Continuously

Why and how to create fast feedback loops

The importance of automated testing

Unit testing in Visual Studio

Automated builds in Azure Pipelines

Build definitions and build tasks

Cloning and managing build definitions

Hosted build agents and agent pools

Running tests during an automated build

Code coverage and regression testing

Configuring and using Test Impact Analysis

Continuous Integration (CI) and CI+

Delivering Continuously

Azure Pipelines deployment

Release definitions, environments, and releases

Deployment targets, IaaS, PaaS, containers

Using Microsoft Azure for DevOps

Configuring endpoints and deployment groups

Automated deployment to an Azure Virtual Machine

Installing and configuring Azure Pipelines agents

Release tasks and phases

Creating and deploying a release

Infrastructure as Code

Creating and importing YAML builds

Automatic creation of environments

Azure Resource Manager and ARM templates

Release and environment triggers

Continuous Delivery (CD)

Empowering the Product Owner

Build-Measure-Learn explained

Hypothesis-Driven Development (HDD)

Customizing Azure DevOps to implement HDD

Feature flags overview

Using LaunchDarkly to manage feature flags

Telemetry and application performance management

Application Insights for gathering telemetry

A/B testing

Using feature flags to support A/B testing

Exploratory testing, testing “tours” practice

Using the Microsoft Test and Feedback extension

Understanding and identifying technical debt

Using SonarQube to gauge your technical debt

Practices for paying off technical debt

Learning and Improving Continuously

Building a culture of learning and improvement

Agile metrics and reporting

Communities of Practice (COPs)

Lean thinking and practices to eliminate waste

Using the wiki to build tribal knowledge

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Price: $1,495 USD

Course Duration: 3 Days

Description

Get hands-on experience working as a team in an Azure DevOps environment.
Learn to configure Azure DevOps for product development.
Practice creating and managing Azure Pipeline builds, as well as installing and configuring Azure Pipeline agents.
Understand the value of building a culture of learning and improvement

Who Should Attend

Questions? 929.777.8102 [email protected]

Course Outline

Increasing Flow at Scale

The complexity of software development

The need for empirical process control

Increasing flow through a technical value stream

Scrum and Professional Scrum

The Nexus scaled Scrum framework

Practices for organizing teams

Establishing feature teams to minimize dependencies

Planning and Executing at Scale

Organizing and refining the Product Backlog

Creating a definition of “Ready”

Dependencies, types, and related risks

Cross-team refinement to identify dependencies

Planning and executing a Sprint

Limiting work in progress (WIP)

Working in small batches

Creating and obeying a definition of “Done”

Using queries, charts, and dashboards for reporting

Sharing Code

Working collaboratively as a team

Collective ownership mindset

Git version control workflow (optional)

Branching strategies and related side effects

Using Code Maps to visualize code dependencies

Using Package Management to share binaries

Adopting an internal open source model

Integrating Continuously

Why and how to create fast feedback loops

The importance of automated testing

Unit testing in Visual Studio

Automated builds in Azure Pipelines

Build definitions and build tasks

Cloning and managing build definitions

Hosted build agents and agent pools

Running tests during an automated build

Code coverage and regression testing

Configuring and using Test Impact Analysis

Continuous Integration (CI) and CI+

Delivering Continuously

Azure Pipelines deployment

Release definitions, environments, and releases

Deployment targets, IaaS, PaaS, containers

Using Microsoft Azure for DevOps

Configuring endpoints and deployment groups

Automated deployment to an Azure Virtual Machine

Installing and configuring Azure Pipelines agents

Release tasks and phases

Creating and deploying a release

Infrastructure as Code

Creating and importing YAML builds

Automatic creation of environments

Azure Resource Manager and ARM templates

Release and environment triggers

Continuous Delivery (CD)

Empowering the Product Owner

Build-Measure-Learn explained

Hypothesis-Driven Development (HDD)

Customizing Azure DevOps to implement HDD

Feature flags overview

Using LaunchDarkly to manage feature flags

Telemetry and application performance management

Application Insights for gathering telemetry

A/B testing

Using feature flags to support A/B testing

Exploratory testing, testing “tours” practice

Using the Microsoft Test and Feedback extension

Understanding and identifying technical debt

Using SonarQube to gauge your technical debt

Practices for paying off technical debt

Learning and Improving Continuously

Building a culture of learning and improvement

Agile metrics and reporting

Communities of Practice (COPs)

Lean thinking and practices to eliminate waste

Using the wiki to build tribal knowledge

Class Schedule

Day 1: 12:00pm-4:30pm ET

Day 2: 12:00pm-4:30pm ET

Day 3: 12:00pm-4:30pm ET

Times represent the typical daily schedule. Please confirm class schedule at registration.

Class Fee Includes

Easy course access: Attend training right from your computer and easily connect your audio via computer or phone. Easy and quick access fits todayís working style and eliminates expensive travel and long days in the classroom.
Live, expert instruction: Instructors are sought-after practitioners, highly-experienced in the industry who deliver a professional learning experience in real-time.
Valuable course materials: Courses cover the same professional content as our classroom training, and students have direct access to valuable materials.
Rich virtual learning environment: A variety of tools are built in to the learning platform to engage learners through dynamic delivery and to facilitate a multi-directional flow of information.
Hands-on exercises: An essential component to any learning experience is applying what you have learned. Using the latest technology, your instructor can provide hands-on exercises, group activities, and breakout sessions.
Real-time communication: Communicate real-time directly with the instructor. Ask questions, provide comments, and participate in the class discussions.
Peer interaction: Networking with peers has always been a valuable part of any classroom training. Live Virtual training gives you the opportunity to interact with and learn from the other attendees during breakout sessions, course lecture, and Q&A.
Small class size: Live Virtual courses are limited in small class size to ensure an opportunity for personal interaction.

Instructors

Richard Hundhausen

Richard is the president of Accentient, a company that helps software teams deliver better products by understanding and leveraging Scrum and DevOps. He is a certified Professional Scrum Trainer, Microsoft Developer Technologies MVP, author of Professional Scrum Development with Microsoft Visual Studio, and co-creator of the Scaled Professional Scrum framework....Learn More

Bring this course to your team at your site. Contact us to learn more at 929.777.8102.

✓ = Guaranteed to Run

Dates

Mode

Location

Price

Call to Schedule

Anytime

On-Site / Private

Your Location

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Download Fact Sheet

Description

Get hands-on experience working as a team in an Azure DevOps environment.
Learn to configure Azure DevOps for product development.
Practice creating and managing Azure Pipeline builds, as well as installing and configuring Azure Pipeline agents.
Understand the value of building a culture of learning and improvement

Who Should Attend

Questions? 929.777.8102 [email protected]

Course Outline

Increasing Flow at Scale

The complexity of software development

The need for empirical process control

Increasing flow through a technical value stream

Scrum and Professional Scrum

The Nexus scaled Scrum framework

Practices for organizing teams

Establishing feature teams to minimize dependencies

Planning and Executing at Scale

Organizing and refining the Product Backlog

Creating a definition of “Ready”

Dependencies, types, and related risks

Cross-team refinement to identify dependencies

Planning and executing a Sprint

Limiting work in progress (WIP)

Working in small batches

Creating and obeying a definition of “Done”

Using queries, charts, and dashboards for reporting

Sharing Code

Working collaboratively as a team

Collective ownership mindset

Git version control workflow (optional)

Branching strategies and related side effects

Using Code Maps to visualize code dependencies

Using Package Management to share binaries

Adopting an internal open source model

Integrating Continuously

Why and how to create fast feedback loops

The importance of automated testing

Unit testing in Visual Studio

Automated builds in Azure Pipelines

Build definitions and build tasks

Cloning and managing build definitions

Hosted build agents and agent pools

Running tests during an automated build

Code coverage and regression testing

Configuring and using Test Impact Analysis

Continuous Integration (CI) and CI+

Delivering Continuously

Azure Pipelines deployment

Release definitions, environments, and releases

Deployment targets, IaaS, PaaS, containers

Using Microsoft Azure for DevOps

Configuring endpoints and deployment groups

Automated deployment to an Azure Virtual Machine

Installing and configuring Azure Pipelines agents

Release tasks and phases

Creating and deploying a release

Infrastructure as Code

Creating and importing YAML builds

Automatic creation of environments

Azure Resource Manager and ARM templates

Release and environment triggers

Continuous Delivery (CD)

Empowering the Product Owner

Build-Measure-Learn explained

Hypothesis-Driven Development (HDD)

Customizing Azure DevOps to implement HDD

Feature flags overview

Using LaunchDarkly to manage feature flags

Telemetry and application performance management

Application Insights for gathering telemetry

A/B testing

Using feature flags to support A/B testing

Exploratory testing, testing “tours” practice

Using the Microsoft Test and Feedback extension

Understanding and identifying technical debt

Using SonarQube to gauge your technical debt

Practices for paying off technical debt

Learning and Improving Continuously

Building a culture of learning and improvement

Agile metrics and reporting

Communities of Practice (COPs)

Lean thinking and practices to eliminate waste

Using the wiki to build tribal knowledge

Class Schedule

Sign-In/Registration 7:30 - 8:30 a.m.

Morning Session 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Lunch 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Afternoon Session 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Times represent the typical daily schedule. Please confirm your schedule at registration.

Class Fee Includes

• Tuition

• Course notebook

• Letter of completion

Instructors

Richard Hundhausen

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