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DevOps Team Assessment Lab

Assess a fictional company's DevOps maturity and create improvement recommendations using DORA metrics.

30 minutes
platform-engineering/devops-fundamentals
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Lab Overview

🛠 Lab from the Platform Engineering Bootcamp. Used in Week 1. Bootcamp landing page: https://academy.tekanaid.com/bootcamps/platform-engineering-bootcamp Parent course(s):

  • Week 1: DevOps & Platform Engineering Overview (slug: devops-platform-engineering-overview)

In this hands-on lab, you'll analyze a real-world scenario of a company struggling with traditional development practices. You'll identify DevOps problems, assess their current state using DORA metrics, and create an improvement plan.

This lab helps you apply DevOps concepts you've learned to practical business scenarios - the kind of analysis skills that employers value in DevOps professionals.

By the end of this lab, you'll understand how to:

  • Identify common DevOps anti-patterns in organizations
  • Apply DORA metrics to assess DevOps maturity
  • Create actionable improvement recommendations
  • Present DevOps value propositions to business stakeholders

What You'll Learn

Analyze a company's current software delivery process and identify DevOps anti-patterns

Map DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR) to concrete improvement areas

Write automation scripts that simulate CI/CD improvements for a manual software delivery process

Present actionable DevOps transformation recommendations backed by metrics

Prerequisites

basic understanding of software development process

familiarity with common development challenges

Technologies Covered

devopsassessmentdora-metricsbusiness-caseculture

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