Manage software lifecycle management delivery projects

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This standard is about managing software lifecycle management delivery projects.

This involves establishing and overseeing DevOps (integrated development and operations) processes and best practice to ensure live systems are stable, secure and compliant while providing efficient continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) software deployment cycles that respond effectively to change requests.

It includes making strategic technical decisions to support the organisations technology roadmap, and improving the platform by supporting software delivery automation to live environments. It also includes maintaining effective production support and issue resolution.

This standard is for those who need to manage software lifecycle management delivery projects as part of their duties.

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1. Review DevOps deliverables to ensure quality, cost and time targets are achieved

2. Lead DevOps process design as the technical authority to maintain delivery targets

3. Define and manage software life cycle policies, standards, processes and techniques in line with organisational requirements

4. Lead coaching and mentoring of DevOps teams to maintain high levels of situational awareness of software environment capabilities and performance

5. Run proof of Concept (POC) reviews for new tools and technologies to assess them for use in software lifecycle management programmes

6. Specify and design CI/CD pipeline processes and tools to implement and automate deployment processes 

7. Assess the DevOps maturity of the organisation to identify areas for improvement

8. Work with DevOps teams to implement the approved tools and processes to deliver software updates effectively

9. Plan training for teams to facilitate the delivery of high performance DevOps solutions 

10. Implement automated reporting tools to monitor system health and reliability

11. Communicate operational status updates and the future DevOps development roadmap to senior stakeholders for approval

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1. The rationale for DevOps and its underlying principles and challenges

2. How to define and maintain a DevOps development roadmap  

3. How to deliver change requests from customers rapidly and effectively by adding new (and updating existing) features

4. The role and application of software tools in development, configuration management, CI/CD deployment pipelines and operations

5. How to manage and improve DevOps software lifecycle management processes

6. The steps involved in enhancing current DevOps practices

7. How to develop and configure a DevOps CI/CD pipeline and its use in the release of software components
8. How to improve speed, efficiency and ability of DevOps CI/CD pipelines
9. How to create and improve new tools, services and frameworks to deliver faster and more reliable software releases

10. The importance of maintaining a smooth continuous build and integration of new software into live environments

11. How to manage teams to maintain high levels of DevOps CI/CD performance

12. How to implement security and performance testing to safeguard releases from vulnerabilities

13. The role and purpose of a continuous integration and container ecosystem
14. The steps involved in automating the process of promoting code out of scrum teams to production to the required quality
15. The need to continuously drive and improve the system and process to reduce costs and improve efficiency
16. The need to provide continuous guidance to teams around automation, reliability and manageability, to ensure that software implementations are production-proof
17. The steps involved in monitoring and reporting about build chain performance and adoption