COURSE OVERVIEW

Since the signing of the Agile Manifesto at the Utah Snowbird resort in 2001, Agile Development has grown as a proven and exciting competitor to traditional software development models. Offering more frequent business value and a focused collaboration process, Agile Development delivers!

This being said, only some applications are suited for Agile while some are still handled better with traditional methods. Attend our seminar and learn how to perform SCRUM, the most prevelant and successful form of Agile Development.

BENEFITS

Learn how Agile Development methodologies deliver business value
to your customers faster
Learn the history of Agile Development
Understtand the industry business case for Agile
Learn about the Snowbird, UT conference
Understand the Agile Manifesto document
Understand the Principles behind the Agile Manifesto document
Read the Agile Project Management Declaration of Interdependence
Learn how Agile compares to Plan-based models
Review the myths about Agile Development
Learn about time-boxing: The Sprint
Learn to condct daily standup meetings: Scrum
Learn to create and form User Stories
Learn Test Driven Development (TDD)
Learn Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
Understand the benefits from automated testing
Learn how continuous deployment can help drive quality
Learn about continuous integration
Learn the right way to do pair programming
Learn to build feature teams
Review the variations of Agile: DSDM, Lean, ASD, FDD, Crystal, XP, XBreed, Scrum
Understand Scrum as the leader in Agile Development methodologies
Learn how to Implement Scrum
Learn the Scrum Roles: Scrum Master, Product Owner, Delivery Team
Learn the Scrum Rituals: Sprint Planning Meeting, Daily Scrum, Sprint Demo, Sprint Retrospective
Learn the Scrum Artifacts: Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Burnup Charts, Sprint Board
Learn about Sprint 0: The first Sprint
Learn how software requirements fit in with Agile Development
Learn to challenges and successful strategis for implementing Agile into a development environment

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Project Mangers, Developers, Database Designers, Development Managers, Development Directors, VP’s of Software Development, CTO, CIO

THE SEMINAR INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TOPICS

Part I – The History of Agile Development

1. The History of Software Development
2. The Software Industry Today
3. The Business Case for Agile
4. Software Estimation as a “Wicked Problem”
5. Navigating the Wicked Problem

Part II – Agile Foundation Documents

1. The Agile Manifesto
2. Principles Behind the Agile Manifesto
3. Agile Project Management Declaration of Interdependence

Part III – Comparing Agile to Plan-based Models

1. Common Plan-based Models
2. The Agile Model
3. Myths about Agile Development
4. False Agile Projects
5. Common Agile Development Fixtures

Part IV – Flavors of Agile Development

1. DSDM
2. Lean Software Development
3. Adaptive Software Development (ASD)
4. Feature Driven Development (FDD)
5. Crystal Method
6. Extreme Programming (XP)
7. Scrum
8. Scrum#
9. XBreed

Part V – Understanding Scrum

1. Scrum: The Basics
2. The Ceremonies
a. Sprint Planning
b. Daily Scrum
c. Sprint Demo
d. Sprint Retrospective
e. Sprint "0”
f. Project Retrospective
3. The Roles
a. Scrum Master
b. Product Owner
c. Delivery Team
d. Receiving Team
4. The Artifacts
a. Product Roadmap
b. Product Backlog
c. Sprint Backlog
d. Sprint Board
e. Burn Chart

Part VI – Implementing Scrum

1. Your Agile Project Profile
2. Your Organizations Agile Profile
3. Rolling out Agile: What You Can Expect
4. Transition Types
5. A Eleven-step Rollout Plan

Part VII – Scaling Agile to the Enterprise

1. Enterprise Challenges
2. Parallel/Serial Scrum
3. Scrum and Off-Shore Projects
4. Government Contact Strategies with Agile

Part IIX – For Review

1. False Agile Projects
2. Your Projects Agile Profile
3. Your Organizations Agile Profile
4. The Scrum Game