A management presentation to present the business benefits for the roadmap planning including:
• products that are at end of lifecycle based on a list of end of live conditions (Competence A7.2)
• addressed business needs, society needs or research direction (Competence A9.1)
• challenged the status quo (Competence A9.3)
• envisioned exploitation of technological advances (Competence A9.5)
An HRM plan to enable the innovation (for instance, being a blame-less organization) based on:
• an example of monitoring the development needs of individuals and the involved teams (Competence D9.1)
• identification and recommendation of work based development opportunities (such as peer-programming) (Competence D9.2)
• incorporation within routine work processes of the opportunities for skills development (for instance, retrospective) (Competence D9.3)
• reviewed training and development options (Competence D9.4)
• planning or mentoring individuals and teams to address learning needs (Competence D9.5)
Time allowed
3 hours
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The DevOps business simulation ‘The Phoenix Project’
Assignment: DevOps business simulation The Phoenix Project
Exercise 1 – Preparation/implementation exercise
Exercise 2 – Coaching exercise
Exercise 3 – Learning and experimenting exercise
Overall skills and behaviors observations during the simulation
How the individual assessment exercises are organized
Assignment: Self-reflection document
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Introduction
The practical assignments requirements of the DevOps Master training preparing for the EXIN DevOps Master exam can be met by the following assignments described in this document:
1. DevOps business simulation ‘The Phoenix Project’.
2. Self-reflection exercise.
3. Transfer document.
This document describes how to organize and facilitate this simulation, how participants should demonstrate their practical skills and how to ‘score’ the exercises during the simulation. The EXIN DevOps Master certification is based on the e-Competence Framework
(http://www.ecompetences.eu/). The e-CF competences that are covered in the DevOps Master certification are added in the activity tables for reference.
The DevOps business simulation ‘The Phoenix Project’
The simulation game is based upon ‘The Phoenix Project’ Book. Parts Unlimited is in trouble. Newspaper reports reveal the poor financial performance of the organization. The only way forward to not only save the company but to make it competitive and profitable is “The Phoenix Project” which represents an IT enabled business transformation, with Retail Operations as the business owner of this project. The VP of IT Operations is asked to take the lead of the IT department and ensure that “The Phoenix Project” will be a success. But the VP of IT Operations is facing a tremendous amount of work. A huge backlogs of issues, features and projects.’ http://www.gamingworks.nl/business-simulations/the-phoenix-project/
The Phoenix Project is a one day business simulation about DevOps. In 4 rounds 8-12 participants will participate in an interactive workshop. The structure of the workshop allows training participants (TP) to demonstrate their skills in 12 individual exercises.
Each of the participants has to co-deliver one part of the business simulation next to the facilitator and will be observed and assessed by the facilitator.
The simulation contains the following exercises:
• Exercise 1 – Preparation/implementation exercise
• Exercise 2 – Coaching exercise
• Exercise 3 – Learning and experimenting exercise
Assignment: DevOps business simulation ‘The Phoenix Project’
Exercise 1 – Preparation/implementation exercise
This exercise is about preparing a team to use DevOps principles in their day to day work. During the simulation, the team will implement DevOps principles such as processes, flows and tools. At the start of each round they will improve their way of