Class overview :

Class goals :

After completing this course, delegates will have gained the following skills:

• Knowledge of what ‘Agile’ means to software development
• Understanding of how agility helps manage risk
• Understanding of the main Agile processes and their applicability

Content of Introduction to Agile Development

Agile Development

• What Agile Isn’t…
• The Drawbacks Of Traditional Development Methods
• Agility Is An Attitude
• People, Not Processes
• The Agile Manifesto
• Managing Risk
• Iterative Development
• Incremental Development
• Client Involvement
• Barriers To Agile Working
• Agile and Fixed-Price Contracts
• Scaling Agile

The Agile Toolkit

• The Agile Tooklit
• Managing Business Risk
• Managing Technical Risk
• Orthogonality
• Technical Debt

Overview of Agile Methods

• Extreme Programming
• Test-Driven Development
• Unified Process
• Scrum
• FDD
• Crystal
• Lean Development

Extreme Programming

• Key Points
• Values, Principles and Practices
• The XP Project Lifecycle
• XP Artefacts: Spikes and Stories
• XP Advantages and Disadvantages

Testing and Integration

• The Place of Testing and Integration in Agile Processes
• Testing as Risk Management
• Unit Testing
• Testing Guidelines
• Continuous Integration

Unified Process

• Key Points
• The Unified Process
• UP and Agile
• UP Variants: OpenUP, AUP, RUP
• Work Products, Roles and Disciplines
• The RUP Lifecycle
• Phases and Iterations
• RUP Best Practices
• RUP Advantages and Disadvantages

Scrum

• Key Points
• The Scrum Process
• Roles: Product Owner, Scrum Master and Team
• Pigs and Chickens!
• Artefacts
• Meetings
• Scaling Scrum
• Scrum Best Practices
• Scrum Advantages and Disadvantages

Agile Requirements and Estimating

• Traditional Requirements Gathering
• Managing Changing Requirements
• Vision Documents
• Features
• User Stories
• Estimating
• Story Points
• Velocity
• Planning Poker

Test-Driven Development

• Unit testing
• Benefits and limitations
• Test-Driven Development
• The TDD process
• Demo
• Advantages and disadvantages
• Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)

Lean Development

• The Toyota Way
• Key Principles
• Add Nothing But Value
• Center on Those Who Add Value
• Flow Value from Demand
• Optimize Across Organizations
• Applying Lean Principles to Software

DSDM

• Key Points
• DSDM Principles and Philosophy
• DSDM Phases
• Workshops
• Prototypes
• MoSCoW Prioritization
• Timeboxing
• DSDM Advantages and Disadvantages

Mastering Agility

• Improve the Process
• Rely on People
• Eliminate Waste
• Deliver Value
• Seek Technical Excellence
• Wrapup