DevOps Culture and Mindset

DevOps culture and mindset help teams deliver software faster and more safely. In this specialization, you’ll see how DevOps combines culture, Lean principles, and delivery practices to improve flow and collaboration. You’ll begin with CAMS/CALMS, the Three Ways, Lean waste, Westrum culture, and value stream mapping. You’ll practice continuous improvement with Improvement Kata and A3 problem solving, and read key metrics: deployment frequency, change failure rate, MTTR, and eNPS. Then you’ll apply DevOps to real work: loosely coupled architectures, fast feedback loops, and managing work in progress—including unplanned work. You’ll align development and operations with shared backlogs (“work is work”) and strengthen reliability with monitoring, observability, and blameless incident reviews. To improve time to market, you’ll plan small, frequent releases using CI/CD, automation, and feature flags, and track progress with lead time and change failure percentage. By the end of this specialization, you’ll be able to: Explain DevOps values and culture using CAMS/CALMS, the Three Ways, and Westrum Improve flow with value stream mapping, Lean waste, and continuous improvement tools Manage work in progress, unplanned work, and visibility to reduce delays Use monitoring, observability, and blameless reviews to learn from incidents Support safer releases with CI/CD and small-batch delivery