Agile Essentials for Developers

Course: AGLDEV

Duration: 3 Days

Level: I

Course Summary

This course will provide practical guidance for projects applying Agile practices for building valuable software. It will give advice on Scrum planning, development, delivery, and management. It will also provide a complete view of the Agile development process. An ISO project will be used as the workshop example.

This course teaches how to use Scrum and XP practices, describes each practice in detail, then discusses principles that will allow the modification of XP and the creation of a custom Agile method.

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Topics Covered In This Course

Why Agile?

Understanding Success
Beyond Deadlines
The Importance of Organizational Success
Enter Agility

How to Be Agile

Agile Methods
Don?t Make Your Own Method
The Road to Mastery
Find a Mentor

Understanding XP

The XP Lifecycle
The XP Team
XP Concepts

Planning

Vision
Features
Stories
Release Planning
The Planning Game
Risk Management
Iteration Planning
Slack
Estimating

Developing

Incremental Requirements
Spike Solutions
Exploratory Testing

Collaborating

Trust
Sit Together
Real Customer Involvement
Ubiquitous Language
Stand-Up Meetings
Coding Standards
Iteration Demo
Reporting

Releasing

?Done? Defined
No Bugs
Version Control
Ten-Minute Build
Continuous Integration
Collective Code Ownership
Documentation

XP Mindset

Informative Workspace
Root-Cause Analysis
Retrospectives

Appendix A: Values and Principles

Commonalities
About Values, Principles, and Practices

Appendix B: Improve the Process

Understand Your Project
Tune and Adapt
Break the Rules

Appendix C: Rely on People

Build Effective Relationships
Let the Right People Do the Right Things
Build the Process for the People

Appendix D: Eliminate Waste

Work in Small, Reversible Steps
Fail Fast
Maximize Work Not Done
Pursue Throughput

What You Can Expect

At the end of this course, delegates will be able to:

Understand how to work in an Agile project.
Create deliverables:
- Vision
- Features
- Stories
Create the necessary documentation.
Understand the steps in an Agile project.
Work in an Agile team.
Explain Scrum/Agile terminology.
Understand where testing fits.

Who Should Take This Course

Agile team members, including Business Professionals, Developers, Quality Assurance, and Project Leaders.

Recommended Prerequisites

Some development experience would be helpful.

Training Style

Instructor led with 50% lecture and 50% lab.

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TSTAGL	Testing in an Agile Environment	3 Days	I	Details

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Schedule For This Course
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