What is Agile Software Development?

Agile software development refers to a group of software development methodologies based on iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing cross-functional teams.

Agile methods generally promote a disciplined project management process that encourages frequent inspection and adaptation, a leadership philosophy that encourages teamwork, self-organization and accountability, a set of engineering best practices intended to allow for rapid delivery of high-quality software, and a business approach that aligns development with customer needs and company goals.

Course Description

Organizations are increasingly adopting Agile software development methodology as they realized that the adoption provides results such as increased productivity, increased predictability, increased team health/morale, increased quality, higher return on investment and frequent delivery of business value. Organizations practicing traditional waterfall model are also increasingly moving into Agile. Gartner industry report (Dec 2009) predicts that by 2012 “Agile development methods will be utilized in 80% of all software development projects”.

Software team members are more interested in moving into Agile as the practices empowers teams, trusts the team’s ability and makes them self-organized and self-managed. Such empowered teams strive to achieve technical excellence, personal success resulting in organizational success.

However, Agile adoption requires support and time for the team members to be effective and organizations to be successful. This course will help individuals and organizations to learn Agile software development methodology and will also help to increase the speed and success of Agile adoption.

Course Objectives

To learn and understand:

·         Agile software development

·         Agile manifesto, values and principles

·         Agile methodologies (Overview)

·         Agile engineering practices (Overview)

·         Implementing Scrum (Detailed)

Course Content:

·         Introduction to Agile software development

·         History of Agile software development

·         Agile manifesto

·         Agile values and principles

·         Agile methodologies – Overview

§  Scrum

§  XP – Extreme Programming

§  FDD – Feature Driven Development

·         Agile engineering practices – Overview

§  Continuous Integration

§  Test Driven Development

§  Refactoring

§  Pair Programming

·         Introduction to Scrum

·         Scrum Framework

·         Scrum Roles

·         Scrum Meetings

·         Scrum Artifacts

·         Planning, Execution, Inspection and Adaptation

·         Scrum Simulation

Audience

·         Developers

·         Testers

·         Architects

·         Tech Writers

·         Tech Leads

·         Team Leads

·         Project Leads

·         Project Managers

·         Development Managers

·         Anyone who is part of software development team

Prerequisites

Basic understanding of SDLC Software Development Life Cycle is required.

Faculty Profile

·         Over 15 years of experience in software development

·         Agile Coach and Scrum Practitioner

·         Certified PMP with more than 5 years of project management in software projects

·         Certified ScrumMaster

·         Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

·         Experienced Coach and Trainer (Project Management, Agile, Quality Management)
 

Duration

2 Days

Date

29,30 May' 2010

Timings

09:30 AM to 06:00 PM

Course Fee

Rs. 9,900 + 10.3 % (S.Tax) per participant

Delivery

Class room based, interactive workshop with practical exercises

Deliverables

Course Material, Exercise Worksheets and List of resources - reference books and links