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Organizing your DevOps Team
Continuing our DASA accredited consulting practices, we recommend the next online course – Design Effective DevOps Teams.
We offer special discounted price for a month of Season holidays. Register now!

Learn DevOps Culture fundamentals and purchase our consulting for your specific purposes, conditions and team!
Startup Business plan
As a part of our DASA DevOps consulting services our team offers a special discounted price for the online course IT startup Business Plan for $12.99 only with unlimited access.

IT Product consulting services
We are happy to inform that DevOps Agile skills association (DASA) approved us as an accredited consulting partner for DevOps and Product management.
We are happy to offer our services – contact us directly through website forms.
To start with you can take our brief IT Product management online training on Udemy platform at a special price $12.99 till January, 16th.

DASA appreciates our participation in the DevOps Portfolio development
It was a great honor and great experience to review Devops Agile Skills association (DASA) Portfolio module.
Thanks to DASA organizers and fellow members!
Dear Respected Members of the Community Review Panel,
I trust this message finds you in good health and high spirits. I write to you on behalf of the entire DevOps Fundamentals team, expressing our gratitude for the contributions you have made during the recent review process of our latest DevOps Fundamentals course.
Considering time and logistical constraints, we had to limit the number of modules given for review. The breadth of feedback that we have received from you, each esteemed member of our community, on the modules of our course, has been both enlightening and invaluable. We deeply appreciate the time, expertise, and attention to detail that you have invested in ensuring the quality and efficacy of our content.
We wish to inform you that we have officially closed the review process and are now transitioning into the phase of meticulous incorporation of your feedback into the respective course modules.
It is our conviction that this initiative has not only served the enhancement of our course, but it has also forged an environment of collaboration and shared learning, which we hope has been equally rewarding for you.
Once again, we extend our deepest gratitude for your invaluable contributions. Your feedback has been instrumental in improving the DevOps Fundamentals course, and we are genuinely grateful for your support.
We will endeavor to keep you abreast of our progress as we proceed with the implementation phase, and we sincerely look forward to further opportunities of collaboration in the future.
Yours Sincerely,
Vijaykumar
Bill Dunkan on so-called “waterfall” projects:
The great explanation by Bill Dunkan on so-called “waterfall” projects:
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Bill Duncan
Project management consultant and trainer. Primary author of the original (1996) PMBoK Guide.
Probably the MOST important thing to keep in mind is that there is no such thing as a “waterfall” project. Waterfall was defined by Royce in a 1970 article as a way to NOT do software development. Now, if you understand project management (which this AI bot clearly does not), you would know that there is such a thing as stage gate (also called phase gate) which is often called “waterfall.” But in phase gate revisions are NOT “costly and time-consuming” unless you leave them to the end. And that’s true for ALL projects. And the approach is generally “linear and sequential” but overlaps are both allowed and encouraged”
XLA structure
XLA stands for eXtended Level Agreement in which a service provider and a customer agree on in-depth collaboration rather than on formal metrics.
Marc Smalley offered a simple and clear structure for XLA as shown on the image
Updates in PMP exam procedure
PMI announced radical changes in the certification exam procedure starting 2023, September, 25th.
The exam answers will be sent to PMI, so a candidate receives results in within 5 business days AFTER the exam take-date.
In case of candidate’s misconduct, the exam result is put in failure, and the next attempt is allowed in a test center (CBT) only. Online is prohibited.
How can I renew my ITIL certifications
Starting 2023 Axelos(r) acquired Peoplecert and introduced new rules for renewing certifications. Each certification is valid for 3 years now. There are 3 ways to renew –
- Pass a new exam. All certification periods for the previous certifications will be prolonged starting the last successful exam date.
- Pass one of the previous exams again. For example, if you are ITIL Foundation, CSD, DPI certified, you can take ITIL DPI twice and renew ALL certifications.
- Subscribe to Axelos membership resources here and gain 60 CPD during 3 years.
Stay tuned! Stay certified.
DevOps Culture online course for special price
Only 1 week till July, 1st. Join our DevOps culture course with special $9.99 price instead of basic $54.99.
You learn:
In the given course you learn what DevOps culture is, and what is the value of applying it.
You learn main Devops concepts and practices, we discuss Devops team features, approach to team design and development.
You learn team and product success measurement and improvement tools.
Another important topic is management and governance re-design in organizations, which adopt DevOps. Shift to more leading and supportive functions instead of direct management is a core approach.
In case of successful development our products grow, and scaling is necessary. In the course you learn basic concepts and approaches to the scaling of products and DevOps teams – both vertical (Iaas – PaaS – SaaS) and horizontal (decomposing).
You also learn the role of specific architectural and technical approach and tools in product and team design in DevOps.
Finally, we focus on “Ops” – which means “operational service”, you learn specific support approaches and 1st Service desl line role.
