Continuous Delivery Using Azure DevOps Services

Module 1: Increasing Flow at Scale

• The complexity of software development
• The need for empirical process control
• Increasing flow through a technical value stream
• Scrum and Professional Scrum
• The Nexus scaled Scrum framework
• Practices for organizing teams
• Establishing feature teams to minimize dependencies

Module 2: 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

Module 3: 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
• Adopting an internal open source model

Module 4: 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+Module 5: Delivering Continuously
  • Azure Pipelines deployment
  • Release definitions, environments, and releases
  • Deployment targets, IaaS, PaaS, containers
  • Using Microsoft Azure for DevOps
  • Configuring endpoints and deployment groups
  • Automated deployment to an Azure Virtual Machine
  • Installing and configuring Azure Pipelines agents
  • Release tasks and phases
  • Creating and deploying a release
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Creating and importing YAML builds
  • Automatic creation of environments
  • Azure Resource Manager and ARM templates
  • Release and environment triggers
  • Continuous Delivery (CD)

  Module 6: 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
  • Application Insights for gathering telemetry
  • A/B testing
  • Using feature flags to support A/B testing
  • Exploratory testing, testing “tours” practice
  • Using the Microsoft Test and Feedback extension
  • Understanding and identifying technical debt
  • Using SonarQube to gauge your technical debt
  • Practices for paying off technical debt

  Module 7: Learning and Improving Continuously

  • Building a culture of learning and improvement
  • Agile metrics and reporting
  • Communities of Practice (COPs)
  • Lean thinking and practices to eliminate waste
  • Using the wiki to build tribal knowledge