Learning & Development
Any transformation requires continuous learning, which in turn necessitates knowledge sharing. To meet this demand, Xellentro offers several customized, non-certification training courses in such areas as DevOps, DevSecOps, SRE, Value Stream Management (VSM), AI, and Blockchain. Our learning and development initiatives in this aspect include…

(3 x 8-hour days OR 12 x 2.5-hour sessions, 2 sessions per week)
- Learn about IT and non-IT innovation trends and their convergence
- Prepare for and accomplish a change in mindset from “Building” to “Learning”
- Adapt to the behavioral shift of Becoming an Intrapreneur
- Change perspective from “Inside-Out” to “Outside-In”; focus on value creation
- Adopt a design mindset
- Discover how Design Thinking methods and tools help achieve value creation
- Develop a Project-to-Product Approach
- Move to a Product/ Value Stream team
- Outline key transformation challenges
- Select appropriate Implementation Methods & Tools
- Leverage IT and other technologies to improve and innovate marketing practices
- Learn to implement DevSecOps, SRE, and VSM to heighten value creation
- Implement security measures throughout the lifecycle and not as an afterthought
- Undertake Experiential Learning through gamification of Digital Transformation
- Identify relevant metrics for tracking transformation and modernization
- Enable Platform Engineering with a Value Stream Team for Scalability
- Adopt a new approach to Human Capital
- Focus significantly on sustainability in every aspect of the lifecycle
- A 3-week Capstone Project featuring 2 hrs per week of facilitators’ guidance

(3 x 8-hour days OR 12 x 2.5-hour sessions, 2 sessions per week)
- Sustainable IT reference models
- Data centers and Cloud
- Software application architecture
- Tools and technology
- Hardware
- ESG Reporting
- Innovation – servitized products
- Setting up strategies for sustainability

(to help align with the Digital Operational Resilience Act)
(3 x 8-hour days OR 12 x 2.5-hour sessions, 2 sessions per week)

(2 x 8-hour days)
- Understanding SRE big picture
- Defining SLIs, SLOs, and error budget for a predefined use case
- Defining Golden Signals of monitoring for distributed & planet-scale workloads
- Software Engineering primer
- Data structures & algorithms
- API design & development
- Implementing monitoring (alerts, tickets, logs) for the defined SLOs using Prometheus
- Instrumenting full-stack observability (log, metrics, traces) in a multi-container application hosted on Kubernetes / OpenShift
- Building visualization aids and dashboards in Grafana
- IT Infrastructure primer
- Cloud
- Compute, Networks, Storage, and Databases
- Security (cyber, network, zero-trust)
- Experiencing Non-Abstract Large System Design (NALSD)
- Building resilient systems with chaos engineering
- Demystifying the role of incident management and blameless postmortems in SRE
- Identifying and reducing toil with data analytics
- Moving from automated to autonomous systems leveraging AI / ML
- Understanding SRE role, responsibilities, and skill set
- Getting familiar with SRE culture and core principles that accelerate SRE adoption
- Building a blueprint for SRE adoption with SRE getting started model
- Defining a maturity path with SRE maturity model
- Looking at industry perspective and future trends – Instana, BigPanda, Nastel, etc.
- SRE tips & tricks and industry best practices
- What problems does SRE solve for products/ services?
- Where does SRE stand with similar approaches like ITIL, DevOps, and Platform Engineering?
- How to get started with SRE adoption for a product team?
- How to define and ‘own’ product reliability with SLIs and SLOs?
- How to define and use error budgets to limit business risks and accelerate innovation?
- How to measure and mature UX-related business-critical factors using data analytics?
- What is the impact on product backlog when working with SRE teams?
- How to enable observability (log, metrics, traces) in a product by design?
- What are the key metrics to measure the success of SRE?
- What kind of maturity model can teams use to continuously improve?
- What problems does SRE solve for the business?
- How does SRE help in optimizing the cost of IT operations?
- Where does SRE stand with similar approaches like ITIL, DevOps, and Platform Engineering?
- How to enable SRE adoption at the enterprise level?
- What are the key metrics to measure the success of SRE?
- What kind of maturity model can teams use to continuously improve?
- What value does the culture of SRE bring to the organization and its people?
- What is DevSecOps?
- DevOps and DevSecOps
- SRE and DevSecOps
- Concepts of Threats and Threat Actors
- Threat Modelling and implementing in modern day Agile practices
- CT/ CI/ CD, and Implementing security tools
- GDPR
- Cyber Security
- Cloud Security Audit and Compliance
- Information Security – ISO 27001 Concepts
- Implementing ASOC

DOIS is the only global DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE event from India. Xellentro has proudly been organizing this event for the last 5 years.
The first-of-its-kind DevOps Asia Summit (DOAS) is scheduled for February 10, 2023. It offers a platform for thought leaders and practitioners from the ASEAN region to share their knowledge and interact with peers from across the globe.

- Roundtables on DevSecOps, Cybersecurity
- Roundtable on Sustainability through IT
- Webinars, Panel Discussions, Interviews
