- The heritage of Agile and DevOps
- The business case for DevOps
- Common Agile DevOps principles
- Goals of Agile DevOps
- Understanding the overall value chain
- Effective and quick response to change
- Feedback loops
- Adaptation of work
- Cross-functional roles
- Continuous Integration
- Timeboxing
- Velocity tracking
- Linking work to end value
- Mindset and culture
- Iterating operational work
- Scrum in operational work
- Unified IT retrospectives
- Designing infrastructure goals
- Matching infrastructure to application goals
- Cloud engineering benefits
- Reducing skills-based silos
- Tools for implementing agile infrastructure
- Planning
- Vision
- Roadmaps
- Running a sprint
- Maintaining a backlog
- Grooming a backlog
- Retrospectives
- Velocity and velocity tracking
- Stakeholder roles
- Planned vs. Unplanned work
- The danger of heroics
- Queuing and slack
- Prioritization heuristics
- Preparing for and avoiding emergencies
- The Kanban system
- Kanban roots: gaining perspective
- Visualizing work
- Push vs. pull stimulus
- Lean principles
- Upper and lower work limits
- Queues and buffers
- Bottlenecks
- Blocked Work
- Overproduction
- Work in Progress (WIP)
- Overburdening of teams
- Time available (idle states or waiting)
- Processing
- Inventory, stock, unused assets
- Handoffs and movement of work
- Defects
- Latent skill
- Linking business value to operational work
- Scaled Agile principles for increased capacity
- Automation and scaled infrastructure
- Prioritization
- Throttling operational work
- Dissolving operational silos