Azure DevOps Training Overview
Accelebrate's Continuous Delivery Using Azure DevOps Services Training teaches attendees the DevOps principles and hands-on skills they need to work better in teams, scale their agility, share and integrate their work, and deliver working software continuously. Attendees work in teams on a common case study using a shared Azure DevOps environment.
Location and Pricing
Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.
In addition, we offer some courses as live, instructor-led online classes for individuals.
Objectives
- Increase flow at scale
- Plan and execute at scale
- Share code
- Integrate continuously
- Deliver continuously
- Empower the product owner
- Learn and improve continuously
Prerequisites
Attendees should be familiar with Visual Studio, Scrum, and have basic experience with Azure DevOps Services, Visual Studio Team Services, or Team Foundation Server.
Outline
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Increasing Flow at Scale
- The complexity of software development
- The need for empirical process control
- Increasing flow through a technical value stream
- 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
- Practicing internal open source (inner source)
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, stages, and releases
- Deployment targets, IaaS, PaaS, containers
- Using Microsoft Azure for DevOps
- Configuring service connections
- Automated deployment to an Azure App Service
- Release jobs, steps, and tasks
- Creating and deploying a release
- Release and stage triggers
- Practicing 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
- Using Application Insights to gather telemetry
- A/B testing explained
- Using feature flags to support A/B testing
- Exploratory testing and taking testing “tours”
- Using the Microsoft Test and Feedback extension
- Understanding and identifying technical debt
- Using SonarCloud to gauge your technical debt
- Making technical debt transparent
- Practices for paying off technical debt
Learning and Improving Continuously
- Working and learning as a team
- Patterns of effective collaboration
- Pairing, swarming, and mobbing practices
- Building a culture of learning and improvement
- Blameless retrospectives
- Building feedback directly into the product
- Communities of Practice (COPs)
- Tracking improvement through agile metrics
- Using the wiki to build tribal knowledge
Conclusion
Training Materials
All Azure DevOps Services training students receive comprehensive courseware covering all topics in the course.
Software Requirements
- Windows 10 or later with local Administrator permissions
- Visual Studio 2019 Enterprise Edition
- Internet access to connect to Azure DevOps Services
- Additional free software and code that Accelebrate provides
