Linux as guest virtualization This lesson is about virtual machines and containers and the differences and details about them. This is a completely new topic in the Airpick One catalog. When I took the exam myself, the topic didn’t even exist. But LPI is of course moving with the times because at the moment there is a real container hype and accordingly it makes sense to include this topic in the exam catalog. API won’t expect you to be an absolute expert in virtual machines or container technologies. It’s more…

Implementing Enterprise Governance Over IT Welcome to the implementation section, which is surprisingly about how to implement COBIT, meaning how to make it work in your organization. COBIT doesn’t bring so much new information here. Implementation, according to COBIT is primarily about some form of project or program management and these are not new approaches on the market. Let’s start with two cookies. Comments how COBIT approaches the Governance Implementation at the beginning of this course, we’ve mentioned that governance of Int doesn’t belong to an It department only, but…

The COBIT Business Case Welcome to the business case section. By now you know what COBIT is and how it can help you with your governance system if you would like to apply it in your organization. It requires effort and investment. So you need to prepare a justification for your investment, which means write down the benefit that COBIT brings and compare it to the cost that you will need to pay for it. Such a justification is called a business case. Usually it has a form of more…

DevOps – the revolution in IT Hi, welcome to a short introduction video to DevOps. DevOps is an important topic in It and I would even like to call it a revolution. I’ve been working in It since 90 99, so not quite from the punch cards, but for a while. And I have worked with a number of practices and frameworks for software development, service management, It governance and I consider DevOps a real revolution. ITIL brought us the processes, gave us service desk, SLAs and Structure COBIT brought…

Facilitating Projects in Scrum In this chapter, we’re going to talk about some of the work that you’ll do as a Scrum Master in helping to facilitate the projects and the project timeline. In particular, we’re going to talk about effective use of artifacts in Scrum, talk a little bit about how you can support the Scrum team in actual creation of the Deliverables, and then talk about linking the work of your Scrum team, perhaps with other Scrum teams as part of larger scrum of Scrums for programs and…

Meetings in Scrum In this chapter, we’re going to go into some detail about the various meetings that take place in Scrum, and specifically your responsibilities as a Scrum master to help facilitate those meetings and to support the needs of the Scrum team. We’ll talk a little bit about the Project Vision meetings, user group meetings to identify and document requirements, the Sprint Planning meeting, the daily Scrum Sprint reviews, and then Retrospects. Let’s take a look at each one of these. Learning Objectives In this particular chapter, you’re…

Product Backlog Review Meetings Since the prioritized product backlog is really the domain of the product owner, these particular meetings are generally driven by the product owner, but often facilitated by you. As Scrum Master, this requires engagement with the other relevant stakeholders and the Scrum team, and generally happens a few days before the end of the Sprint that we’re currently working. What we want to be able to do effectively set the table for the next Sprint. Have things changed since the last time we groomed the product…

Planning Poker There are a number of different techniques that you, as the Scrum Master, can bring to the team to help them assess things like level of effort associated with a particular user story. One that I suspect you’ll be using for most sprints is called Planning Poker, and in Planning Poker, you’re going to provide a deck with three cards to each of the members of the Scrum team SM and L for short, medium, or long. Level of effort. Once the product owner has selected a particular…

Minimizing Risk in Scrum When we think about risk related to scrum, again, it’s important to understand that the goal in risk management is not just minimization of risk, but really optimization of risk. Given an organization’s tolerance, given the kinds of projects we’re working on, how do we align the level of risk and risk management activity to the solutions that we’re trying to deliver? So there are basic capabilities built into the Scrum framework that help us deal with risk by having a very flexible environment that allows…

Restaurant Recommendation Experiment Hello and welcome. We are now learning the matchbox recommender from Azure ML. So far we have seen what is a recommendation system and its types, how the recommender split works, what is the train matchbox recommender and score recommender along with their parameters. We also saw the input and output parameters for both these modules. Today we are going to build a recommendation system using all of these. In today’s experiment we are going to build a restaurant recommendation engine. So let’s go to the Azure…