Agile Overview
Public and Teleseminar Class Schedule
Prerequisites: none
Duration: 2 days at a site, 4 weeks teleseminar series
Public class price: $1000.00 includes instructor, meeting space, all course materials, and lunch each day.
Public class size: 10 - 20 delegates
Teleseminar class price: $700.00 includes 2 meetings a week with the instructor (one instructional, one Q&A) and all course materials. Homework is assigned, and delegates interact through a Facebook Fan page. Meetings are recorded and available for delegates to download after the meeting, making it possible for people to attend who have a schedule conflict at the meeting times.
Teleseminar minimum class size: 10 delegates
Description: This class is an introduction to Agile practices and the impact
they have on a software project. Agile software development methods are widely adopted. But like the
adoption of any new process or method, prior planning is needed to make the adoption go smoothly. This
class gives you the information you need to plan an adoption of Agile methods in your projects.
You learn best by doing, so we will work on a project together, taking on the different roles throughout
the class. Delegates will practice techniques such as writing user stories, creating a project backlog, determining
the requirements for an iteration, task creation, assignment and estimation, creating task boards, handling a
change request, and writing tests first.
This course is appropriate for anyone who will be working on an Agile team. We recommend that teams take the course
together. Not only will all team members understand what Agile can do for them, but the course also provides a
good experience in working together as a team in an Agile manner.
Benefits of this Course:
- Understand the impact of Agile development on your project
- Know the various kinds of work that needs to be done, when, and to what level of detail
- Experience working in an Agile manner
- Practice some of the core techniques of Agile development
Topics
- Why Agile
- Moore
- Metcalf
- Rate of Change
- Disruptive Technology Changes
- Life inside the Software Develoment Tornado
- What is Agile
- Agile Manifesto
- Working Software
- Individuals and Interactions
- Customer Collaboration
- Responding to Change
- Do just enough
- Agile Approaches to Software
- Generic Agile
- RUP, OpenUp, EssUP
- Spiral
- Scrum
- Roles on an Agile Project
- Voice of the Stakeholder
- Voice of the User
- Coach
- Project Manager
- Team Member
- Structure of an Agile Project
- Project Startup
- Project Backlog
- Iteration
- Iteration Backlog or Task List
- Write the Tests First
- Executable Code
- Retrospectives
- Responsibility
- Teamwork
- The Impact of Agile On
- Project Management
- Requirements
- User Experience Modeling
- Architecture
- Data Modeling
- Design
- Development
- Testing
- Change Management
- Deployment
- Technical Writing
- Getting Started with Agile
- Determining what you can realistically do in your organization
- Good first steps
- Roadblocks
- Results you can expect
- Resources for your continuing education
- Certifications
- Books
- Websites
Instructors: Geri Schneider Winters. Ms. Winters has been using and teaching Agile approaches to software
development since long before they were called Agile! As a Software Engineering Specialist for Rational, Ms. Winters taught and mentored the Rational Iterative
Process (which became RUP) to many Rational clients. Ms. Winters has continued to train and mentor teams in adopting Agile practices and an Agile lightweight style of RUP
at many major corporations, including Safeway Inc., Agilent, and BCBSNC.
Thomas Meloche. Mr. Meloche is a co-founder of Menlo Innovations, a leading Agile company. He has long trained teams in
RUP in an Agile fashion, before anything was called Agile. Mr. Meloche has led RUP adoptions at many major corporations
including
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