This highly-interactive 2-day course is for individuals and teams who want to explore, adopt, or improve an Agile development methodology. You will discover how to work together, as a team, to deliver the highest value early and often, while maintaining a very high standard of quality. Designed for everyone involved in (and around) a development team, this course has the ability to adapt to a variety of experience levels and functional areas. You will learn about the various Agile methods,and their values, principles, and practices. Rather than leave you with a giant list of to-do items and further stress, you will identify which techniques are essential for success, which are critical for your team’s current situation, and which are optional, customizable, or could be postponed in certain circumstances.

Details

This course reveals principles and practices necessary for a successful transition to Agile. You will explore what Agile will do for your organization, and your career. You will absorb the underlying concepts: Iterative development, predictable delivery of value, responsiveness to changing market conditions, rapid feedback, continuous process improvement, transparency, self-management, and transition models.

Much of the learning is provided as an Agile simulation folded into the course curriculum. This interactive team exercise allows you to plan a release, deliver a number of iterations, recalibrate based on velocity, and improve your team operation to enhance the flow of value to the customer. Other activities are used to bolster important lessons, such as writing, estimating, and testing user stories.

Objectives

You will leave with concrete practices and principles on how to increase the flow of real value in your organization, to deliver that value in a predictable manner, and to simultaneously improve the well-being, enthusiasm, and skills of the team.

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Understand your role on an Agile team.
• Express important Lean and Agile principles.
• Embody a deep understanding of Agile fundamentals.
• Identify root causes and core constraints, and develop collaborative solutions to improve flow.
• Know what common difficulties to look for, and how to encourage the team towards realistic resolutions.
• Write good user stories.
• Estimate user stories.
• Subdivide user stories into tasks for various team roles.
• Perform Agile Planning activities.
• Communicate useful information to teammates during the daily stand-up/scrum meeting.
• Hold Iteration Demos/Sprint Reviews.
• Participate in Retrospectives.