GitLab InnerSourcing Training

Overview

This hands-on workshop covers what InnerSourcing is, the key components needed for InnerSourcing to be successful, and how it will benefit you and your company. Attendees will learn how GitLab can help drive collaboration and consistency throughout the organization, and begin to apply best practices used by GitLab's own teams.

New certification! Starting in June 2020, we're including class participant access to our new GitLab Innersourcing Specialist certification assessments. To earn certification, GitLab InnerSourcing Training participants must receive a passing score on both a written assessment and a lab assessment evaluated by a GitLab Professional Services Engineer.

Target Audiences

Cross-functional development team members

What’s Included

Live training sessions delivered by a GitLab technical trainer
Lecture with demonstrations
Hands-on Labs
Slides with notes and reference links

Learning Objectives

Define What InnerSourcing is
Identify the key components needed for InnerSourcing to be successful
Assess how it will benefit you and your company
Explain GitLabs’s CI/CD Functions
Apply GitLab's Permission Model
Describe GitLabs’s Package and Release Stages
Apply InnerSourcing Best Practices
Apply InnerSourcing functions within GitLab

Course Syllabus

Schedule	Topic	Overview
9:00 - 9:30a	What is InnerSourcing	InnerSourcing Defined Benefits of InnerSourcing Key Parts of InnerSourcing Who is Using InnerSourcing Starting InnerSouring: Where to Begin GitLab WorkFlow Components
9:30 - 10:00a	Open Communication	Features of Open Communication Characteristics of a Good Communicator Benefits of Open Communication Scenario Exercise: Who did it better?
10:00 - 10:30a	Open Collaboration	Open Collaboration and InnerSourcing Keys for Successful Open Collaboration Open Collaboration Checklist Making Open Collaboration Work
10:45 - 11:15a	Benefits of InnerSourcing	Adopting InnerSourcing Discussion Section: Existing Redundancies Why InnerSourcing is so Useful How GitLab Makes Collaboration Easy Review Quiz: GitLab InnerSourcing Introduction
11:15a - 12:00p	Understanding GitLab's CI/CD Functions	Demo Exercise: GitLab Navigation Hands on Lab: Basics What is CI/CD? CI/CD Advantages Concurrent DevOps LifeCycle with GitLab CI/CD Features in GitLab—by Lifecycle Stage GitLab CI/CD Automated Tasks GitLab Recommended Process
12:00 - 12:30p	GitLab's Package and Release Stages	What are Package and Container Registries? InnerSourcing Benefits of GitLab’s Package Stage Release Features in GitLab Discussion Section: Release Features and InnerSourcing
12:30 - 1:00p	InnerSourcing Best Practices	Collaboration Fails Best Collaboration Functions Within GitLab Best Communication Functions Within GitLab How Else Can You Contribute? Demo Exercise: InnerSourcing Functions Hands On Lab: Collaboration Tools Hands On Lab: Search Activity Hands On Lab: Open Activities Review Quiz: InnerSourcing with GitLab

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Prerequisite Knowledge and Skills

Attendees should already be familiar at a basic knowledge level with the following concepts:

Agile development
Source code management

System Requirements

Laptop with internet access and git installed, per the requirements specified here.

Pricing

Private Onsite Course

$5,000 per session for up to 20 attendees per session for standard non-customized live training

Private Course Options

Remote for your team: $3000 per day, up to 12 attendees recommended
At your site: $5000 per day for up to 20 attendees, plus travel expenses for each instructor

Customization

This course can be customized. Pricing will be based on the scope of customization you need.

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