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Effective AGILE Development

Effective AGILE Development offers a complete array of Scrum and Agile Training, Agile Coaching, Agile Assessments and Agile Facilitation to help your organization adopt and be more effective using an Agile Development Process.
 

Agile Coaching

Our Agile Coach Consultants have the experience and ability to deliver tangible coaching to your team. They are able to help your team find and identify the most efficient changes and improvements for improving the effectiveness and sustainability of your team and products.   Click for more information about Agile Coaching from Effective AGILE Development.

Certified Scrum Training

Our complete suite of training available through our public schedule or on-site courses covers Scrum and Agile Methodologies, Certified ScrumMaster Training, Certified Scrum Product Owner Training, Certified Scrum Developer Training, Hands-On Quality and Design Patterns Workshop, Agile Testing, Agile Development with Microsoft ALM, Acceptance Test Driven Development With VSTS and Design Patterns. We also do training in the context of the popular agile tool frameworks including Visual Studio/Team Foundation Server, Version One and others. Click for more information about Agile Training from Effective AGILE Development.

Agile Product and Portfolio Management Consulting

Many organizations using Agile Software Development practices find that the development team out paces the Product Management Team.  Agile practices need to be adopted by Product Management.  This means faster and lower cost market research, more focused planning on the business capabilities planned for each release and using Innovation Games® to understand needs of customers.

Agile Project Management Tool Selection

Almost any organization needs some type of a system to help manage their Agile projects.  Effective AGILE Development can assess your needs, suggest a solution and provide Agile team training in the context of the system selected.   We offer training on Microsoft Visual Studio / Team Foundation Server and other platforms.

Agile Assessments

Effective AGILE Development can tailor an assessment to match your objectives. Whether you are new to Agile or want to take it to the next level, our Agile Coaches have the experience and skills to set your organization on the path to higher productivity.   Click to learn more about Agile Assessments from Effective AGILE Development.

Agile Facilitation

Teams are made up of people and people have different backgrounds, experiences and expectations. These differences are what provides the power that drives the team. However, often times it is these empowering differences between people that can be a stumbling block to progress. Our Agile Coaches are able to help your organization overcome their differences and unleash the power of your team. An Agile Facilitation can help your team put the practices of Scrum and Agile to work. Click to learn more about what an Agile Facilitation can do for your team.

 
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Effective Agile Testing - Monday, December 05, 2011

No Bugs!We are pleased to announce the launch of a new course designed to help enterprises deliver more business value faster by improving the quality of their software products with Agile Testing. Agile Testing is not a new idea, but with this new course, we are bringing all the concepts together in a team based course. The first release will be for .NET developers, but the concepts will be applicable to any development platform. As with my other recent courses, I started with a single user story to drive the development of the course.

As a Tester on a Scrum Team, I want to work to prevent defects in the system and clearly define the business goal so that the team can deliver the right business value with an appropriate return on investment.

This is really saying a lot. The course is aimed at developers who do testing on a Scrum team. Then it talks about the prevention of defects rather than testing for defects. Lean principles tell us to build quality in. Agile testing works for this goal by moving testing forward in the process. Traditional testing often has little to do with actual code quality and insuring that the team builds the right solution.

Course Objectives

  • Scrum Team Collaboration The teamwork and collaboration on a Scrum team
  • Agile Acceptance Testing The principles that help teams understand and deliver the right business value with a requirements by example ap-proach.
  • Test Driven Development Using the practice of Test First to help ensure the require-ments are well understood and automated tests can be added to the build process to validate the system in the future.
  • Refactoring The process of improving the design of software to increase the understandability and testability of the code and allow for easy and safe additions to the system in the future.
  • Automated Acceptance Testing The process of creating and running automated acceptance test suite using the appropriate tools and techniques for the application layer being built.

For more information, please check the course page Effective Agile Testing or feel free to contact me directly.

 

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  I took a course from Rod some time ago on scrum development. It was without a doubt one of the best courses I have ever taken. It combined a presentation format followed by a fantastic 2 day simulation. The simulation was very well designed and perfect for allowing me to internalize the concepts. Perhaps most importantly it demonstrated to me that the concepts really worked extremely well. Switching to agile development requires that you work in a different way and that you let go of past practices and make the leap across the chasm. This simulation allowed me to do that.


Also, other interactive activities helped us recap and review the concepts learn in a fun and engaging way.

I spent 9 years teaching college and several years doing corporate training. As such I really appreciate the challenges of course/content design and the brilliance of this course design and delivery. Rarely have I come across such a pedagogically well designed course. It was absolutely brilliance.

If you're trying to move to agile development methodologies and particularly if you have skeptics in your organization then I would highly recommend this course from Rod. It will make believers and practitioners out of them! 

- Kelly Calvert Group Program Manager, Team Foundation Server, Microsoft

Scrum Team Training

“Rod makes learning fun. I recently took the Certified Scrum Master class taught by Rod. Keeping technology professionals engaged for 3 days straight has its merits. Rod’s style made time fly by and left the students wanting more. Rod is a trainer I would seek out for future Agile-Lean Development courses.” March 17, 2009
Chris Dederer
Scrum Basic Workflow - Effective AGILE Development LLC
 “I can safely say this is the best class I’ve taken.  It was worth every penny and I will be able to immediately begin using the principles and practices in my job.” CF from Douglass County CO

 Scrum Game Testing
“Rod was the consummate professional, and I can also say that it is unanimous among my team that he was the best teacher that any of us has ever come across in dealing with software and computers.” January 9, 1998
Allan Shoemaker, DVP of Visual Merchandising, The Bon*Ton

 

 

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