Ship quality, safely and often.
The Certified DevOps, Quality & Governance Practitioner track — DevOps and CI/CD foundations, technical debt, quality engineering and testing in Agile, release and deployment management, lightweight governance, regulated and secure delivery, and production readiness.
Testing in Agile & Scrum
Learn to treat testing as an activity woven through the Sprint rather than a phase that follows it. Understand the testing pyramid and the different test types, and redesign Sprint Planning so quality is built in by the whole team, not inspected in afterwards.
Technical Debt — What Every IT Leader Should Know
Understand technical debt as Ward Cunningham meant it — a deliberate, sometimes wise borrowing against future speed that accrues interest if ignored. Learn to distinguish principal from interest, deliberate from inadvertent debt, and to build a risk-scored register that finally makes the business case for paying it down.
Security & Compliance in Agile Delivery
Learn why bolting security and compliance onto the end of a project fails under iterative delivery, and how DevSecOps embeds them into every Sprint. Build a practical security-in-Sprint checklist covering threat modelling, dependency scanning and access review so risks surface early rather than two days before go-live.
Release & Deployment Management
Learn to separate deployment (getting code safely to production) from release (making a feature visible to users), and why that separation is the foundation of low-risk delivery. Master feature flags and progressive rollout to decouple deployment risk from release risk, and build a reusable Progressive Release Plan.
Quality Engineering in Agile Delivery
Learn why treating testing as an end-of-cycle phase quietly breaks Agile delivery, and how shift-left quality builds quality in from requirements and design onward. Redesign a bottlenecked workflow and produce a Shift-Left Quality Checklist your whole team can apply at every stage of a story.
Production Readiness & Operational Excellence
Learn why "code complete" and "passed UAT" are not the same as ready to run in production, and what actually closes the gap — monitoring, alerting, runbooks and rollback plans. Build and apply a production-readiness review checklist you run before every significant release so a minor incident never becomes a multi-hour outage.
IT Governance in Agile Environments
Learn what IT governance really is — risk management and decision rights — and why heavy stage-gate sign-off destroys the agility it is meant to protect. Redesign oversight as lightweight checkpoints aligned to natural Agile cadences, and build a governance checkpoint template your organisation will actually use.
DevOps Fundamentals for Non-Developers
Understand what DevOps actually is — a culture of shared responsibility between development and operations — and why it is defined by how people work together, not by the tools they buy. Learn to explain DevOps to a non-technical sponsor in plain English and reframe it from a shopping list into a workflow and culture change.
CI/CD Fundamentals for IT Professionals
Understand what Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery really are — frequently merging and testing small changes, and keeping software always releasable — and why an automated pipeline makes change safe. Learn to explain CI/CD to a non-engineering audience and to tell continuous delivery apart from continuous deployment.
Agile Delivery in Regulated Environments
Regulated IT delivery is not a reason to abandon Agile — it is a reason to do Agile more deliberately. Learn how iterative delivery can produce the objective evidence regulators require by building compliance into the Definition of Done rather than bolting documentation on at the end.