Introduction
Just a little over two years in the past, I took GitLab’s course on methods to handle a distant staff. That was a really helpful course
and I used to be capable of apply a number of greatest practices from that course to my position on the time, plus roles I’ve held since then.
I proceed to handle international and distant groups, so I used to be excited to listen to about GitLab’s latest course masking their
“TeamOps” mannequin of enhancing groups.
This course is hosted on LevelUp, and is considered one of 9 public course they’ve accessible proper now.
Course Overview
The TeamOps Certification course is break up into 5 sections and covers about 2-3 hours of fabric.
- The primary part covers the foundations of TeamOps
- The remaining 4 sections cowl the 4 guiding ideas of TeamOps
- Shared Actuality
- Everybody Contributes
- Resolution Velocity
- Measurement Readability
Apart from the welcome message within the first lesson, this course is solely textual content based mostly. I used to be stunned by this due to the
earlier course from GitLab and the in depth use of video on methods to handle a distant staff. This course does have a 6-7 query
data examine on the finish of every part and won’t allow you to proceed in the event you rating beneath an 80%.
Thankfully, the questions are simple – assuming you comprehend what you might be studying and never simply clicking by means of to the subsequent web page.
The course additionally supplies entry to the up to date The Distant Playbook, which is a superb start line for checking your organization’s
distant processes.
TeamOps felt like an excellent extension and refresher from the “Learn how to Handle a Distant Group” course. Sadly, that is all it felt
like – a refresher.
Conclusion
The change from video to textual content based mostly programs was stunning, and barely unwelcome. The content material of the course is nice, and can definately
assist groups enhance how they function. Nevertheless, most of the similar concepts had been coated within the earlier course. I suppose that if this continues
to work for GitLab, it is sensible that they are not attempting to make sweeping adjustments, however I hoped for…extra, I suppose.
I like to recommend this course to anybody who manages a staff remotely and wishes a refresher from the earlier course GitLab offered or would not have
the advisable 11 hours for that course. This could take about an hour and a half to learn by means of. If, nonetheless, you’ve extra time I feel the
“Learn how to Handle a Distant Group” course course has much more data that will likely be useful.
