10th–90th percentile thresholds
Evaluate the flow from concept to release, apply CALMR across the value stream, and build an actionable DevOps transformation plan while preparing for the SAFe® DevOps (SDP) credential.
Apply CALMR across technical and non-technical roles in the value stream
Map flow, identify bottlenecks, and improve the path from concept to release
Use the DevOps Health Radar and transformation canvas to create an improvement plan
Live, practitioner-led trainingNo prerequisites required · Advisor support available

Understand the business problem DevOps addresses and why improvement must span the whole development value stream

Apply the SAFe CALMR approach: culture, automation, lean flow, measurement, and recovery

Map the current value stream, measure flow, and identify delays, rework, handoffs, and bottlenecks

Use the DevOps Health Radar to assess the current delivery system and select improvement priorities

Create solution hypotheses and collaborate to research customer needs during Continuous Exploration

Architect for continuous delivery and turn validated ideas into prioritized ART Backlog features

Build continuously, integrate frequently, test end to end, and stage solutions for deployment

Deploy to production, verify the solution, monitor health, and respond and recover from incidents

Separate deployment from release and release value when customers and the business need it

Measure business value, learn from feedback, and feed evidence back into exploration

Use WSJF to prioritize DevOps improvement work

Leave with a practical DevOps transformation plan for your team, ART, or value stream
Strengthen practical capability for roles that value structured delivery, collaboration, and measurable business outcomes.
10th–90th percentile thresholds
Projected U.S. employment growth, 2024–34
Labor-market benchmark for the closest related occupation, not a certification-specific salary or employment guarantee. Earnings vary by location, experience, role, and employer.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics








Define DevOps as a shared mindset and set of practices across the value stream. Examine the delivery problem, expected business outcomes, continuous security and testing, and the CALMR approach.
Map the path from concept to release, capture process and wait time, evaluate flow efficiency, expose bottlenecks, and use the DevOps Health Radar to understand the current state.
Create solution hypotheses, collaborate with customers, research needs, design for continuous delivery, synthesize ideas into features, and prioritize a DevOps backlog using WSJF.
Develop in small batches, build continuously, integrate frequently, test end to end, preserve quality and security, and stage the solution so it remains ready for deployment.
Move changes safely into production, verify behavior, monitor solution health, reduce deployment risk, and design response and recovery practices.
Decouple deployment from release, stabilize the solution, release value when market and customer conditions require it, measure outcomes, and learn from feedback.
Build shared ownership across product, development, security, testing, operations, and release roles. Examine automation choices, queues, WIP, batch size, handoffs, and flow.
Choose actionable flow, quality, reliability, and outcome measures. Strengthen observability, incident learning, recovery capability, and feedback without turning metrics into individual surveillance.
Assess strengths and constraints, compare perspectives across roles, select the next improvement, and connect the change to a measurable delivery outcome.
Create a sequenced DevOps transformation plan with an owner, baseline, target signal, review cadence, and next experiment for your value stream.

Digital badge and renewable SDP credential after passing

Current included certification exam attempts under Scaled Agile policy

Unlimited-attempt practice test

Course workbook and online learning access

Five live morning sessions from August 17-21, 2026

Official instructor-led SAFe DevOps course

Remote or in-person delivery options subject to agreement

DevOps Health Radar interpretation and transformation planning

Value-stream mapping using an agreed organizational scenario

Private delivery for product, engineering, security, testing, operations, and release roles
Passing the exam earns the renewable SAFe DevOps certification and a shareable SDP digital badge. Course completion also provides a certificate of completion.
The current SDP 6.0 exam is web-based, closed book, and timed for 90 minutes. It contains 45 multiple-choice, single-select questions.
The current passing score is 73%. Scaled Agile may revise exam policies, so candidates should verify the study guide in their learning plan before attempting the exam.
The current policy includes the first two attempts in the course registration fee when taken within 60 days of course completion. Additional attempts are available for a fee under Scaled Agile's retake policy.
Learners receive an unlimited-attempt practice test with question-level feedback. It reflects the exam structure but does not guarantee a passing result.
The certification process includes continuing access to the course workbook and online learning platform, plus support for learning and certification questions.
Certified professionals may claim applicable PMI PDUs and Scrum Alliance SEUs according to the current rules of those organizations.
Keeping the certification active provides access to eligible SAFe Skills, community resources, selected workshops, knowledge content, webinars, assessments, and other current certified-member benefits.
Describe why local optimization, large batches, handoffs, and siloed ownership slow the delivery of value.
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Use culture, automation, lean flow, measurement, and recovery as connected dimensions of DevOps improvement.
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Visualize the current delivery path and use evidence to locate waiting, rework, constraints, and improvement opportunities.
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Connect customer research, solution hypotheses, architecture, features, and backlog prioritization.
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Plan for continuous build, integration, testing, security, and staging.
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Improve deployment, verification, monitoring, response, and recovery practices.
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Separate deployment from release and use business outcomes and feedback to guide release decisions.
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Use the Health Radar, transformation canvas, WSJF, and flow evidence to sequence change.
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Define a practical next-state experiment with ownership, measures, and a review cadence.
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Use the course workbook, practice test, learning plan, and current study guide to prepare for the certification assessment.
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SAFe DevOps is useful when product, development, security, testing, operations and release roles improve one delivery system together. The aim is faster flow with stability, security and recovery built into the way work moves.
Use value-stream mapping to expose waiting, handoffs, rework and bottlenecks across exploration, integration, deployment and release.
Connect culture, automation, lean flow, measurement and recovery instead of treating DevOps as a tooling project.
Assess the current state with the DevOps Health Radar and turn the evidence into a sequenced improvement plan with owners and learning measures.
Technical and non-technical roles align around flow, quality, security and release outcomes across the full value stream.
Continuous exploration, integration, deployment and release practices make learning faster while reducing the cost of failure.
Leaders can direct improvement effort toward observed delays and risks instead of funding isolated automation without system impact.
Scaled Agile does not list a mandatory certification prerequisite for attending the course.
The course is positioned at an advanced level. Familiarity with software engineering, systems architecture, infrastructure, testing, security, release, or operations will help participants connect the practices to real work.
Prior exposure to Agile teams, ARTs, value streams, Lean flow, or the Continuous Delivery Pipeline is helpful but not required.
Participants should have a laptop, stable internet connection, working audio, and access to the Scaled Agile learning environment supplied for the cohort.
Build practical facilitation, coaching, conflict-navigation, and evidence-based improvement experience with a Scrum Team.
Deepen team-coaching capability and broaden your impact across products, dependencies, and organizational boundaries.
Add professional coaching, mentoring, organizational-change, and systems-thinking capability to your Scrum foundation.
Build multi-team leadership experience while preserving Scrum values, empiricism, and team self-management.
SAFe DevOps, abbreviated SDP, validates the ability to apply DevOps principles within SAFe and improve flow across the development value stream.
The live online cohort runs Monday, August 17 through Friday, August 21, 2026, from 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM IST each day.
Surya R Gandi will lead the cohort. He is a SAFe Practice Consultant and enterprise Agile transformation coach with extensive training and delivery experience.
Scaled Agile lists the course as two days. This cohort delivers the equivalent instructor-led learning time in five focused three-hour morning sessions for working professionals.
The course is relevant to software engineers, development managers, release managers, QA leads, infrastructure architects, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, security professionals, operations staff, and others working across the value stream.
No. It treats DevOps as a shared way of working across culture, automation, lean flow, measurement, and recovery, not as a toolchain implementation alone.
The current SDP 6.0 exam has 45 multiple-choice, single-select questions, a 90-minute timebox, a 73% passing score, and web-based closed-book delivery.
The current Scaled Agile policy includes the first two attempts when they are taken within 60 days of course completion. Candidates should check the current learning plan because policies can change.
The current guide weights Continuous Exploration most heavily, followed by Value Stream Mapping, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Introducing DevOps, and Release on Demand.
The credential is renewable yearly. Active benefits depend on maintaining the certification under Scaled Agile's current renewal policy.
Yes. Passing the certification exam earns the official shareable SAFe DevOps digital badge. Attendees also receive a course completion certificate.
Scaled Agile lists PMI PDUs and Scrum Alliance SEUs among the professional-development benefits. Eligibility and reporting follow the current rules of the respective organization.
Yes. Private delivery can use your value-stream context, delivery constraints, governance needs, and transformation priorities while preserving the official learning outcomes.
The scheduled fee includes live instructor-led training and the official course and certification package described for the cohort. Applicable taxes and payment terms are shown during enrollment.
Explore upcoming live batches or speak with a course advisor to find the right schedule for your goals.