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Agile Fundamental Bootcamp

Course Objectives

In order to succeed with agile, teams and organizations should focus first on “being agile” as a foundation for success in “doing agile.” Agile fundamentals learning objectives delve into key concepts such as adaptive planning, value-driven development, team collaboration and frequent feedback for continuous improvement. The course also covers the history of agile, the agile manifesto, the agile principles, and some widely applied frameworks and practices. Students come away with a solid understanding of core concepts as they prepare to embark on their agile journey. Consequently, participants leave the course more confident in five key areas:

• The intention behind agile practices
• Value driven development
• Adaptive planning
• Customer engagement in agile
• Putting Agile methods into action

Learning Outcomes
• Origin and History of Agile
• Agile Values and Principles
• Clarity about transitioning to the Agile roles
• What is Empirical Process?
• Deeper understanding about various agile frameworks
• Understanding about where to use Scrum, Kanban or both
• Overview about Scrum framework
• Scrum Roles, Artifacts and events
• Definition of Done and Acceptance Criteria
• Exploring Differences between various frameworks
• Tools for Agile Project Management
• Tracking and measuring project success in agile
• Value delivery vs Fixed Schedule Project
• Essential elements for Agile Way of Working

Target Audience

• Team members (especially for freshly created teams)
• Beginner Scrum Masters and Product Owners and all those preparing for these roles
• Organization and team leaders
• Human Resources and administration departments representatives
• Clients and non-technical collaborators of Scrum teams

Methodology

Complete hands-on workshop to deal with organizational challenges and implantation issues. Participants learn by doing and training facilitator focuses on individual and interaction than theory. Participants work in small teams to learn and play all the roles to understand importance of Scrum Team. Workshop will get facilitated using Scrum Itself by dividing whole agenda in 6 Sprints.

Agenda will be flexible enough to incorporate class feedback at the end of every sprint. Workshop will have demonstration on how to manage agile project in Jira and participants will have opportunity to practice in during training. Facilitator will use relevant sample project to simulate agile project execution using Scrum and Kanban.

Course Modules

Module 1 – Introduction
• Introduction to Scrum
• Introduction to Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012
• Introduction to Team Foundation Service
Module 2 – Planning In Scrum
• Case Study
• Release Planning
• Product Backlog Refinement
• Sprint Planning
• Estimation in Scrum
• Forecasting a Release
• Splitting Product Backlog Items
Module 3 – Quality Software
• Test Driven Development
• Emergent Architecture
• Quality Code
• Continuous Integration
• Done and Undone
• Microsoft Test Manager
• Refactoring
• Documentation in Scrum
Module 4 – Implementing Scrum
• Scrum Challenges
• Collaboration in Scrum
• Common Development Team Dysfunctions
• Pair Programming
• Effective Sprint Retrospectives
• Next Steps