AATD™ (Adaptive Agile Team DevOps) Practitioner Certification Training

The AATD™ (Adaptive Agile Team DevOps) certification training from Agilest® is a comprehensive and demanding overview of the agile techniques that are critical success factors for Developers, Testers, Agile technical coaches, and technical leadership for organizations that are engaged in Agile practices. The core focus is on enabling those who are directly involved in development practices with the primary skills they will need both as a DevOps practitioner but also their management and leadership duties.

The focuses of the AATD™ certification training are the core practitioner skills needed for achieving Quality the Agile way. Frameworks including Kanban, Scrum, and Scrumban are all addressed in a way that is simple enough for the Agile novice to understand, but with enough depth to give the participant the confidence to use the practices in their workplace after they have completed the sessions. The training also covers the components of development that is part of any development process at large organizations with an emphasis on how they work when using Agile.

What sets apart the Agilest® certification training is the focus on exercises that both reinforce the topic information, and create confidence in the participants so they can perform the activities once they return to their workplace. We do believe things like the history of certain different tools, patterns, and the “thought leaders” are important, but, classroom time is limited, and we believe that the time interacting with instructors experienced in the field is best spent getting to the understanding of how things work. So we include history lessons in the appendix of the workbooks that we supply along with the courses that we provide.

DevOps has a high initial threshold, so we dedicate a significant portion of the classroom time to be focused on workshop activities that develop critical Agile product management skills. Including developing an understanding of desktop developer tools, Pair Programming, writing Unit Tests for Test Driven Development (TDD) & writing behaviors for BDD, Automated Regression Testing, and Continuous Integration.

Our goal is the success of our students, and we have made an effort to include everything that will help them in their particular role. We are continuously updating and adding to the content that we make available. Of important note, we are a company that does what it teaches, and we provide our students what we use when delivering at clients. We make everything that we have empirically proven to be useful, available to our certification training participants.