DASA Brochure – Why a DevOps Agile Skills association?

DevOps, everyone’s talking about it, but how do you do it? Interested in understanding how DASA can provide you and your team the Skills and Knowledge needed for your IT Transformational Journey? DASA is an independent and open association supporting the development of high-performance IT organizations through agile DevOps initiatives. DASA offers thought leadership as well as practical guidance for competence development for professionals and organizations. To Realize its Broader Purpose, DASA aims to:

• Promote a knowledge and skills framework for DevOps, based on a defined set of principles.
• Develop and evangelize a vendor neutral DevOps qualification program for professionals.
• Generate interest and awareness for the need for knowledge and skill development.
• Advance quality of training and open source certification for DevOps knowledge and skills.
• Map member training content to the role based competence baseline.

DASA’s competence model reflects the vision that the role of the IT engineer will become more generic as DevOps teams develop. Anyone of the crew can roughly do the job of another. The key to working in this environment is to recognize that there is a skills and knowledge set that needs to be present in every DevOps team. The distribution of these skills and knowledge may be different per team. However, each team will need to ensure that there is enough of each skill and knowledge area to ensure the service is delivered as required by the customers of the service. The DASA competence model identifies 8 knowledge areas and 4 skills and behavior areas that are relevant in DevOps. Every professional operating in a DevOps team requires all 12 competencies in varying degree. This is described in the DASA professional qualification program.