GitLab offers global, role-based training and enablement to help you grow your skills and validate your expertise in GitLab. The GitLab Partner Enablement Team has created a robust program to support GitLab partners in selling, marketing, and providing services to GitLab customers. We offer training materials and prescriptive learning paths to support all roles within your organization including, accreditations for sales, pre-sales technical, and certifications for technical consulting services.
GitLab has a commitment to enabling our partners with the skills that they need to best support current and future GitLab customers. This includes offering a combination of GitLab Partner Accreditations for Sales, Pre-Sales Technical, and Customer Success roles, as well as offering GitLab Certifications for partners committed to providing GitLab services to customers.
At GitLab we value asynchronous working relationships, that's why all of our Partner Accreditations and Certifications are self-paced and offered online. Learn anytime and anywhere with access to our training system using your GitLab Partner Portal login.
| Sales | Pre-Sales Technical | Customer Success |
|---|---|---|
| Sales Core Badge | SA Core Accreditation | Customer Centric Lunch & Learns |
| Sales Professional Accreditation | How to demos | Service Delivery Kits |
| Competitive Positioning | Competitive Positioning | Product Installation Guides |
| Value Pitches | Product Knowledge | Service Development |
The GitLab Sales Core course provides the fundamental knowledge for individuals new to selling and delivering GitLab services. The GitLab Sales Core course is the prerequisite for all pre-sales technical and sales professionals. By completing this course and scoring above 80% on the exams, you will earn a GitLab Verified Sales Core completion badge and will contribute to the Sales Accreditation program requirements for your company.
Course Content Summary (approx. 3 hours to complete)
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this course
GitLab Sales Specialties dive deeper into specified GitLab use cases including: DevOps Platform, Continuous Integration (CI), DevSecOps, and Agile Management.
The GitLab Sales Specialist in DevOps Platform will prepare learners with an understanding of the DevOps lifecycle and how to increase their customers' operational efficiencies. Upon the completion of this course learners will be able to define a DevOps Platform and be able to position GitLab as the superior DevOps Platform.
Course Content Summary (approx. 40 minutes to complete)
Prerequisites: GitLab Verified Sales Core Associate
The DevSecOps Sales Specialist will prepare pre-sales professionals with industry relevant knowledge on the DevSecOps Market, Industry, and provide the best practices from GitLab in the DevSecOps space.
**Course Content Summary (approx. 1 hour to complete)
Prerequisites: GitLab Verified Sales Core Associate
The GitLab Continuous Integration Sales Specialist course provides learners with a fundamental framework of Continuous Integration (CI). At the end of this session, you will be able identify target personas for a CI conversation, understand the CI market, and position the GitLab CI solution.
Course Content Summary (approx. 1 hour to complete)
Prerequisites: GitLab Verified Sales Core Associate
The GitLab Agile Management Sales Specialist course will guide learners through the basics of Agile Management, the Agile Management market, and the GitLab Agile Management Solution. At the end of this course, sales professionals will be able to position GitLab Agile Management as a part of the DevOpsPlatform solution.
Course Content Summary (approx. 1 hour to complete)
**Prerequisites**: GitLab Verified Sales Core Associate
Upon the completion of the Verified Sales Core badge AND all four of the Sales Specialties, learners will be awarded the GitLab Sales Professional Certification. Certified GitLab Sales Professionals are able to identify GitLab target audiences, summarize the GitLab Solution Portfolio, and successfully position the value of GitLab to customers.
**Accreditation Requirements (approx. 6 hours to complete)
This fundamental course is designed for pre-sales technical professionals such as Solutions Architects or Sales Engineers and goes in depth demonstrating, deploying, integrating, and optimizing GitLab Solutions. The GitLab Solutions Architect Core meets the program requirements for pre-sales technical accreditation.
Course Content Summary (approx 40 minutes to complete
Prerequisites: GitLab Verified Sales Core Associate
GitLab Professional Services Engineer (PSE) certification is a technical deep dive to help partners validate their ability to deliver implementation, migration, and consulting services to customers. This certification consists of six modules. Upon completion learners will possess the skills needed to deploy the GitLab Platform, migrate data to GitLab, and provide workflow advisory services for customers. This certification satisfies the PSE requirement for the GitLab Certified Professional Services Partner Certification.
Certification Requirements (approx. 10 hours to complete)
All enablement materials can be accessed via the GitLab Partner Portal. Job aides, white papers, and battlecards can be found in the central library when you log in.
To sign up for any of the courses listed on this page, please visit the training section on the GitLab Partner Portal and select Level Up. You do not require a seperate login or credentials to access the GitLab Training Portal from the Partner Portal.
A GitLab Technical Certification requires learners to first pass a written assessment, followed by a hands-on lab assessment proctored by GitLab. This includes our Professional Services Engineer Certification and upcoming Managed Services Engineer Certification as well as access to new GitLab Certifications launching in 2022.
A GitLab Accreditation is unique to GitLab Partners and GitLab field sales members and requires learners to pass a written assessment. This includes Accreditation pathways such as Sales Professional Accreditation.
GitLab Partners have access to both GitLab Certifications and Accreditations within our Learning Experience Platform. </span>
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