👵🍪 Grandma’s Guide to DevOps

A Human-Centered DevOps Training Manual & SSGI Exam Prep Toolkit

👵🍪 Grandma’s Guide to DevOps

Human-Centered DevOps Training and SSGI Certification Toolkit
Format: PDF Manual + Bonus Materials

📘 Product Description

This is not your average DevOps manual.
It’s a fully grounded, human-centered training experience for beginners, professionals, team leads, and certification seekers. Taught in the voice of someone who’s seen a lot of burnt cookies and broken builds, Grandma’s Guide to DevOps connects real-world DevOps concepts to kitchen metaphors, Lean thinking, and systems awareness.

It’s as useful for passing the SSGI DevOps Certification as it is for launching your team’s continuous delivery journey with empathy and strategy.

You’ll get practical stories, certification-aligned lessons, true-false questions, visual tools, and gentle humor that help you learn what matters most — how to flow work, reduce waste, build psychological safety, and automate with purpose.

✅ What’s Included

• Full-length PDF manual (200+ pages)
• 20 module-aligned case studies
• 100+ certification prep questions (true/false and scenario-based)
• Full glossary in plain English and technical language
• Workshop script and slide outline
• Worksheets, cheat tables, affirmations, and kitchen-tested wisdom
• Mapping to SSGI, Scrum.org PAL I and PAL-EBM, and Green PM
• Bonus: AI prompt packs, value stream tools, and learning loops workbook

📚 Table of Contents

Part I: Grandma’s DevOps Kitchen

1. Introduction: Grandma Explains DevOps
2. The Secret Cookbook: What Is DevOps and Why It Matters
3. Containers and Casseroles: Learning Docker from the Pantry
4. Pie Crust Pipelines: Jenkins, Ruby, and Good Timing
5. Infrastructure as Code: Labeling the Pantry
6. Stakeholders at the Table: Feeding the Whole Family
7. Learning Loops: Don’t Burn the Biscuits Twice
8. Managing CI/CD Like a Slow Simmer
9. Scope Creep and Burnt Beans
10. Clean-Up and Continuous Improvement

Part II: SSGI DevOps Certification Prep

11. Introduction and Exam Strategy
12. Case Study and Narrative for Each Topic

• Benefits of DevOps
• Code, Build, Test, Deploy
• Waterfall
• Agile
• Scrum
• Microservices
• Virtual Machines
• Containerization
• Containers vs. VMs
• Orchestration
• Kubernetes Architecture
• Infrastructure as Code
• Continuous Testing and Integration
• Pipeline Automation and Quality Gates
• Continuous Delivery and Deployment
• DevSecOps and Security
• DevOps Toolchain
• DevOps as a Culture
• Where to Begin

Part III: Practice and Review

13. 100 True-False Questions with Answer Key
14. 25 Bonus Prompts and Learning Scenarios
15. Grandma’s DevOps Cheat Table: If This Happens, Try This
16. Final Checklist: What You Know, What You’re Ready to Do

Part IV: Systems Thinking and Leadership Alignment

17. Mapping DevOps to Systems Thinking, Lean Change, and Flow
18. Theory of Constraints and Amplio Jobs to Be Done
19. Merging DevOps with Agile Evidence-Based Management (EBM)
20. Building Empathy and Psychological Safety with Rogerian Design

Part V: Sustainability and Broader Integration

21. DevOps and the Cloud According to Grandma
22. Sustainable DevOps: Green PM and PRiSM Methodology
23. Mapping to P5 Standard for Responsible Technology Practices
24. Amolio-style Resilience and Real-World Coaching

Appendices

A. Glossary: Plain Language and Technical Terms
B. Grandma’s DevOps Affirmations
C. Slide Outline and Workshop Script
D. Full Case Study Index by Chapter
E. AI Prompt Pack and JTBD Value Stream Map
F. Certification Comparison Table
G. Printable Workbook Pages

💡 Who Is This For?

• DevOps certification learners
• SSGI DevOps candidates
• Scrum team members and leaders
• Agile and Lean facilitators
• Educators and neurodiverse learners
• Sustainability-minded tech professionals
• Anyone who prefers metaphors over buzzwords

Not affiliated with SSGI