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Introduction to DevOps with Chocolate, LEGO and Scrum Game

Discover a role-based simulation game, designed to introduce DevOps in a very unusual way. Working with LEGO and chocolate, using avatars, personas, and role cards, you will understand the Dev and Ops roles and their interdependencies. Throughout the game, players go through a range of emotions and learn to expand the boundaries of individual roles, acquire T-shaped skills, and grow the Scrum-team circle to include Operations. The game combines ideas from “The Phoenix Project” with the experience gained from real-life challenges, encountered by development and operations teams in many organizations. Security vulnerabilities, environments patching, deployment code freeze, development and operations silos – the game helps simulate an end-to-end product delivery process and visualize the bottlenecks in the value delivery flow. Introduction to DevOps with Chocolate, LEGO, and Scrum Game engages all five senses to maximize learning effectiveness and takes players through a gamified DevOps transformation journey in three sprints.

What You Will Learn

  • How to facilitate the Chocolate, LEGO, and Scrum role-simulation game.
  • Experience how this game illustrates the DevOps cycle as a case study.

Who This Book Is For

  • Programmers or system admins/project managers who are new to DevOps.
  • DevOps trainers and Agile Coaches are interested in offering their teams a collaborative and engaging learning experience.
About the Author(s)
Dana Pylayeva

As an Agile/DevOps coach & trainer with over 20 years of diverse experience in IT, I bring unique perspectives and stories ”from the trenches”. I’ve been fortunate to work with co-located and distributed teams in the US, Canada, Ireland, Japan, UK, India, and Russia and I can share with you their distinct challenges, successes, and effective practices. I am an educational games designer, and the author of several DevOps/Agile books and games, including “DevOps with Lego, Chocolate”, “Fear in the Workplace” and Safety in Workplace. I speak and facilitate these workshops internationally (50 conferences, 15 countries).  Being a part of the agile community is my passion. Through running several meetups in NYC and organizing local and global conferences, I met many inspiring, phenomenal people.

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