Course Overview: Clear and detailed discussion on the following course content:
- What is the Agile Adaptive Methodology versus the Predictive (waterfall) Methodology?
- The Agile Value Proposition, by explanation of the Agile Manifesto and Agile Principles.
- What is the Scrum Framework by explanation of Scrum Roles, Ceremonies and Artifacts?
- What are the artifacts of Product Planning, Release Planning and Sprint Planning?
- What are the Agile impacts to corporate team structures and stakeholder alignment?
- What are Agile myths and why an Agile transformation will fail?
- What are Agile (hybrid) tailoring considerations?
Attendees to PM-221: Agile Overview for Executives and Leaderswill receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
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Duration: 1 Days
Course Objectives: Are you and executive or leader in your organization and interested in learning about Agile principles? This course details the Agile framework that uses an adaptive life cycle, specifically related to using the Scrum approach.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand an overview of the main aspects that leadership must know to implement strategic opportunities with Agile principles for product quality and on-time product delivery
- Participants will dive into understanding the strategic and tactical elements of implementing Agile and Scrum into their organization
- Receive details on how to understand the organizational impact that the Agile transformation could have on the different aspects of your current business processes
Target Student:
- Designed specifically for leaders and senior managers or anyone wanting to understand the high-level basics of the Agile Framework
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Course Overview:
This class uses a sample product development initiative to illustrate the course principles. If you need to learn what is required to lead or participate in an Agile effort using the SCRUM approach within your organization, this course will cover the Agile adaptive life cycle framework and all of the ceremonies, artifacts, and roles.
Attendees to PM-222: Agile Principles using will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
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Duration: 2 Days
Course Objectives: At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to:
- Compare the Agile (adaptive) and Plan Driven (predictive/ waterfall) approaches
- Understand the Agile Manifesto and SCRUM Framework
- Apply the basics of Agile / SCRUM Team Organization, with importance of the Development Team responsibilities
- Use Agile / SCRUM chartering, high-level estimating, and prioritization techniques to initiate a Product Roadmap and a Product Backlog
- Create personas and user stories to lead to Development Team task assignments
- Understand Release and Sprint Planning to lead to the Sprint Backlog
- Plan and conduct a sample SCRUM Sprint from the Vision Statement through the Sprint retrospective
Target Student:
- Designed specifically for Agile project team members, product owners, project leaders and senior managers or anyone wanting to understand the Agile Framework.
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Course Overview:
PERL programmers need a clear roadmap for improving their skills. Intermediate PERL teaches a working knowledge of PERL's objects, references, and modules — all of which makes the language so versatile and effective. This class offers a thorough introduction to intermediate programming in PERL. Topics include packages and namespaces, references and scoping, manipulating complex data structures, writing and using modules, package implementation, and using CPAN.
Attendees to P-315: Intermediate PERL Programming will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
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Duration: 5 Days
Course Objectives:
- Packages and namespaces
- References and scoping
- Manipulating complex data structures
- Object-oriented programming
- Writing and using modules
- Testing PERL code
- Contributing to CPAN
Prerequisites:
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Course Overview:
Through hands-on labs, you will learn to automate system administration tasks on managed hosts with Ansible, learn how to write Ansible playbooks to standardize task execution, and manage encryption for Ansible with Ansible Vault. This course will also teach you how to deploy and use Red Hat® Ansible Tower to centrally manage existing Ansible projects, playbooks, and roles; perform basic maintenance and administration of the Ansible Tower installation; and configure users and teams and use them to control access to systems, projects, and other resources through role-based access controls. You will learn to use Ansible Tower’s visual dashboard to launch, control, and monitor Ansible jobs; use the Ansible Tower application programming interface (API) to launch jobs from existing templates; automatically schedule Ansible jobs; and dynamically update host inventories.
Course Objectives:
- Install and troubleshoot Ansible on central nodes and managed hosts
- Automate administration tasks with Ansible playbooks and ad hoc commands
- Write effective Ansible playbooks
- Protect sensitive data used by tasks with Ansible Vault.
- Install and configure Ansible Tower for enterprise Ansible management
- Use Ansible Tower to control access to inventories and machine credentials by users and teams
- Create job templates in Ansible Tower to standardize playbook execution.
- Centrally launch playbooks and monitor and review job results with Ansible Tower
Course Outline:
- Introduce Ansible
- Deploy Ansible
- Implement playbooks
- Manage variables and inclusions
- Implement task control
- Implement Jinja2 templates
- Implement roles
- Configure complex playbooks
- Implement Ansible Vault
- Troubleshoot Ansible
- Install Ansible Tower and describe Ansible Tower’s architecture
- Create users and teams for role-based access control
- Create and manage inventories and credentials
- Manage projects for provisioning with Ansible Tower
- Construct advanced job workflows
- Update inventories dynamically and compare inventory members
- Maintenance and administration of Ansible Tower
Dates/Locations:
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Duration: 5 Days
Prerequisites:
- Become a Red Hat Certified System Administrator, or demonstrate equivalent experience
Target Audience:
This course is designed for Linux system administrators, cloud administrators, and network administrators needing to automate configuration management, application deployment, and intraservice orchestration at an enterprise scale.