Introduction to Agile

Description

Overview

In this powerful one-day course, you'll grasp the concepts, principles, and methods of Agile development and become empowered to execute on your plans for incorporating Agile practices and techniques into your organization.

Agile success demands a strong and stable foundation.

A common misconception is that Agility means lack of order or discipline.  This is simply, not the case. Those who try to incorporate an Agile methodology or practice into their SDLC with an expectation of shedding the discipline are on a path to failure.  Agility in software development requires strong discipline. In order to successfully create Agility, you must have a solid foundation in the practices and procedures you wish to adapt and learn how to follow those practices correctly while tying them to rigid quality goals.

This workshop will give you the foundation of knowledge and experience you need to begin.  This course is a starting point for you to acquire the techniques, skills, and tools that enable you to build Agile discipline.

In addition to defining Agile principles, we will cover the advantages, and disadvantages of Agile development. Get first-hand experience by organizing and participating in an agile team. Put the concepts you learn to practice instantly in the classroom project. Understand and learn how to take advantage of the opportunities for Agile. Finally gain an understanding and practice the collaboration and communication needed between customer and developers for Agile to succeed.

Objectives

Understand Agile principles and how to build the discipline to support those principles in your everyday practice

Appreciate the history of Agile and how the collection of principles and practices came together to enable customer success

Examine Agile methods, including: Scrum, Extreme Programming, AgileUP, Feature Driven Development, Lean Development, DSDM

Draw best practices from the various methodologies that will contribute to your team success

Talk the talk: learning the Agile terminology, roles and forums with their context

Walk through the processes that support Agile principles to enable the delivery of great products

Begin to map the transition of your existing team or enterprise-level processes, artifacts and forums to Agile

Discover the power of Agile teams through communication, collaboration and cadence

Uncover the pitfalls that teams will encounter in an Agile transition and understand how to overcome those challenges

Lay the foundation upon which you can build a learning team and organization

This Introduction to Agile training course is designed for anyone who is considering the use of Agile Methods for software development, including:

• Project Managers
• Program Managers
• Analysts
• Developers
• Programmers
• Testers
• IT Manager/Directors
• Software Engineers
• Software Architects
• Customers/Stakeholders
• Product Managers