There’s more to Agile development than simply a different style of programming. That’s often the easy part. An effective Agile implementation completely changes your methods for:
- Requirements Gathering
- Project Estimation and Planning
- Team Leadership
- Producing High Quality Software
- Working with Your Stakeholders and Customers
- Team Development
While not a silver bullet, the Agile framework is quickly becoming the most practical way to create outstanding software. This Agile - Bootcamp training course explores the leading approaches of today’s most successful Agile teams. You will learn the basic premise and techniques behind Agile so you can apply them to your projects.
In this Boot Camp, you will put the skills, tools and techniques you are taught to work. The classroom will be broken up into Agile teams and our instructor will drive each team through the Agile process: from vision down to daily planning and execution. You will leave the class with practical knowledge and a clear roadmap for success.
By attending Agile - Bootcamp workshop, delegates will learn to:
- Apply Agile principles and best practices from across methodologies
- Discover how to conduct Agile Retrospectives for continuous adaptation
- Develop Agile requirements with powerful user stories
- Understand and appreciate the value of “maximizing work not done”
- Learn different approaches to Agile architectures and designs that support more Incremental and emergent projects
- Transform your estimating practices to give executives and customers what they need more easily and more accurately
- Identify pitfalls and failure potential of poorly disciplined Agile teams
- Learn to adopt Agile practices within your existing framework
- Use Scrum Planning Poker to develop story points
- Get practice organizing your group into a self-managed team
- Learn to empower your team to be responsible for total project success
- Conduct exercises in a real-world Agile development unit — see firsthand how roles mingle together to get the work done
- Using a Scrum backdrop, acquire techniques for scaling Agile
- Use velocity-driven planning to support fixed date/fixed price environments
- Order your user stories into themes that encompass architecture and feature development in a value-based manner
- Learn to adapt from a plan-driven approach to continuous planning
- Discuss tools and techniques specific to your organization’s environment
- Practice coaching and communicating as a ScrumMaster, and leverage the differences between a ScrumMaster and a traditional Project Manager
- Eliminate divides between the development team and customer team by creating shared goals for project success beyond contractual requirements
The Agile - Bootcamp class is ideal for all team members responsible for delivering outstanding software including:
- Business Analysts
- Technical Analysts
- Project Managers
- Software Engineers
- Programmers
- Development Managers
- Product Managers
- Product Analysts
- Testers
- QA Engineers
- Documentation Specialists