White Belt Certification

Course Description

Engineering the Digital Transformation has two online White Belt Certification courses—one for leaders and one for practitioners. Both versions provide a common approach that enables people in large organizations to quickly align on their specific priorities for driving improvements.

Through a series of videos, modules, knowledge checks, and assessments, this course will prepare you to begin your journey to making your deployment pipeline visible, building in quality, optimizing workflow, and identifying inefficiencies in your process. Through scenario-based assessments, you’ll apply the skills you’ve learned to identify issues commonly seen in the industry. This rigorous training teaches a systematic approach to analyzing a broad range of applications.

Because it is a CBT program that can easily integrate with learning management systems, it can be used across a large organization quickly and efficiently, and gives everyone a common language and approach for thinking about the problem, motivating people to further complete Green and Black Belt Certifications.

Practitioner Version

Upon completion of the Practitioner version of the White Belt course, practitioners will be able to understand how to take a structured approach to continuous improvement, analyze a broad set of applications in their organizations, prioritize the best opportunities for improvement, and identify and implement Green Belt improvement projects.

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Course Overview

Module 1

Module 1: Manufacturing History

Course Introduction:

Manufacturing has had a long history of continuous improvement. In this module leaders will review the major innovators and improvements they championed to provide a background for concepts and approaches that can be applied to software.

Module 2

Module 2: Providing Visibility of the Software Product Design & the Associated Development and Delivery Processes

Learning Objectives:

  • Start mapping your architecture on your deployment pipeline
  • Identify the different deployment pipelines and architectures in organizations and the challenges that accompany them

Module 3

Module 3: Building in Quality

Learning Objectives:

  • Develop a stable quality signal
  • Define a good set of build acceptance tests
  • Create product control charts, use them to find holes in your build acceptance tests, and efficiently debug automated test failures

Module 4

Module 4: Understanding and Optimizing Workflow

Learning Objectives:

  • Document with metrics the biggest sources of waste that are slowing down flow in your deployment pipeline
  • Prioritize the changes that will have the biggest impact on improving your flow
  • Understand the changes that can help improve flow for different types of bottlenecks
  • Compare and contrast the approaches used for optimizing flow for manufacturing and software
  • Justify the importance of focusing on flow throughout the software development process
  • Identify the sources of waste that can slow down flow in your organization

Module 5

Module 5: Continuous Improvement

Learning Objectives:

  • Create a stable quality signal and use it to start building in quality
  • Compare and contrast the approaches for continuous improvement in manufacturing and software
  • Create A3 product charts to enable the organization to engage in continuous improvement of the product
  • Analyze your deployment pipeline and prioritize the product/architectural changes most important to improving flow
  • Analyze the waste slowing down flow for your deployment pipeline and prioritize changes to improve flow

Leader Version

Upon completion of the Leader version of the White Belt course, leaders will be able to create a culture of continuous improvement, analyze a broad set of applications in their organizations, prioritize the best opportunities for improvement, and lead Green Belt improvement projects.

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Course Overview

Module 1

Module 1: Manufacturing History

Course Introduction:
Manufacturing has had a long history of continuous improvement. In this module leaders will review the major innovators and improvements they championed to provide a background for concepts and approaches that can be applied to software.

Module 2

Module 2: Providing Visibility of the Software Product Design & the Associated Development and Delivery Processes

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify the different deployment pipelines and architectures in organizations and the challenges that accompany them
  • Document your own deployment pipeline to make your process visible

Module 3

Module 3: Building in Quality

Learning Objectives:

  • Analyze the progress teams are making in developing a stable quality signal
  • Analyze product control charts to understand the day-to-day stability of your systems plus efficiently debug automated test failures

Module 4

Module 4: Understanding and Optimizing Workflow

Learning Objectives:

  • Interpret the metrics that show the sources of waste that are slowing down flow for different deployment pipelines in your organization
  • Understand the changes that can help improve flow for different types of bottlenecks
  • Compare and contrast the approaches used for optimizing flow for manufacturing and software
  • Justify the importance of focusing on flow throughout the software development process
  • Identify the sources of waste that can slow down flow in your organization

Module 5

Module 5: Continuous Improvement

Learning Objectives:

  • Determine how well teams are using product control charts and building acceptances test to improve the level of quality they build into their applications
  • Compare and contrast the approaches for continuous improvement in manufacturing and software
  • Create A3 product charts to enable the organization to engage in continuous improvement of the product
  • Analyze your deployment pipeline and prioritize the product/architectural changes most important to improving flow
  • Analyze the waste slowing down flow for your deployment pipeline and prioritize changes to improve flow

Module 6

Module 6: Planning

Learning Objectives:

  • Explain the differences in planning between manufacturing and software and justify why software requires a different approach
  • Modify your approaches to planning that takes advantage of the unique characteristics and capabilities of software

Module 7

Module 7: Culture and Leadership Roles

Learning Objectives:

  • Explain the importance of having a systematic approach for engaging the organization in continuous improvement
  • Identify the different deployment pipelines you want to target for improvement and staff them with the appropriate leadership team
  • Describe the role of the leadership team over the deployment pipeline in driving the continuous improvement journey
  • Describe the role of executives in staffing stable product teams and adjusting capacity across teams over time