Business Central DevOps Development Booster Program

Business Central DevOps Development Booster Program 
With the knowledge and skills gained during this Booster Program, you will be able to optimize the development, build, test and collaboration process for your Business Central development practice.

This self-study program covers in-depth topics like Source Code Management, GIT, Agile, Azure DevOps and Build & Test Automation. As a result Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment will become a part of your daily development process.

There is sufficient variation in the Booster Program between theory and practice. We have developed this Booster Program taking into account the need for students to spend time in doing lab exercises. We feel that by having a self-paced approach achieves the best results! 
 

Learning Objective
A comprehensive and tailored training program allowing you to be fully trained as Business Central DevOps Developer with a mixture of VILT (Virtual Instructor-Led Training recordings), coaching, assignments, self-paced eLearning, etc. etc.

Target Audience
Junior Developer, Developer

Program
The Program covers the below topics:

Source Code Management for Business Central
-Application Lifecycle Management
-Visual Studio
-Visual Studio Code
-Azure DevOps Server
-Azure DevOps
-Azure Repos
-Azure Boards
-Azure Pipelines
-Azure Test Plans
-Azure Artifacts
-Github

Agile/Scrum with Azure Boards
-Development Life Cylce Management
-Work Items, Bugs, Epics, Features
-Linking Work Items with Source Code
-Working with Sprints
-Burndown Chart
-Code Review
-Connect GitHub with Azure Boards
-Using Microsoft Teams for Devops

Source Control with GIT/TFVC
-Source Code Management Early Days
-Why should you use Source Control?
-Source Control Types
-GIT vs TFVC
-GIT Installation & Configuration
-GIT Commands walkthrough
-GIT Local and Remote Repositories

GIT with Visual Studio Code
-GIT Support in Visual Studio Code
-Adding your AL Extension to GIT
-GIT Branching & merging
-GIT Branching Strategies
-GIT Rebase
-Pull Requests & Branch Policies

CI/CD Build & Release Pipelines
-Setting up build agents
-Creating Azure Pipelines
-Build schedules
-Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery
-Using PowerShell to automate the build process
-Automatic deployment (Continuous Deployment)

Build & Release Pipelines with AL Ops
-Handle breaking changes
-Handle dependencies
-Handle app versioning
-Practical/typical pipelines for AL apps

WHEN CAN YOU START?
You can start your DevOps Development Professional Booster program at any time as it is fully eLearning based. All live sessions have been pre-recorded so you can learn at your own leisure!

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO COMPLETE IT?
The Program is designed to take up to 6 days of studying (slow pace with exercises taken into account), which you can split into manageable sections according to your own work schedule. You will have up to 6 weeks default access to the Learning Management System (LMS) from the moment your account is activated. There is no reason to rush as you can learn at a pace that suits you!