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Scrum - Agile Development for Teams

 

Many organizations are moving to a more effective Agile development process with the aim of delivering more business value more quickly. Scrum has become the mostly widely recognized agile method of choice and has established a solid track record of success. This course unites the Scrum Product Development process with concrete practices in tools.

This 5-day hands-on training course creates a simulated whole team experience for implementing the guiding principles and practices of Scrum for the entire team.

A Whole-Team Approach:

 This course includes instruction and hands-on learning for all the skills of the Agile team. Students will learn about Product Management, Agile Testing and effective Development skills including:
 
  • Portfolio Management
  • Product Backlog Management
  • Release Planning /Release Acceptance
  • Sprint Planning / Sprint Review / Sprint Retrospectives and Reflection
  • Acceptance Test Specification
  • Continuous Integration / Automated Builds
  • Test Driven Development
  • Code Quality
  • Refactoring

 Complete Agile Team Training:

  • Learn how to implement Scrum Software Development
  • Learn how to execute the roles of Scrum and the Scrum process
  • Learn how to apply the principles of agile planning, analysis, and development
  • Learn how to use Agile Estimation and Analysis to deliver business value
  • Learn how to optimize code quality and sustainability with Acceptance Test Driven Development and Unit Test  Driven Development
  • Learn how to create and manage multiple platform test plans
  • Learn about the challenges of agile adoption in the modern enterprise

Learn About Using TFS or an Open Source Agile Product / Team System:

 
This course will include hands-on exercises using an open source product to create and manage a project in a large and distributed team environment.
 
  • Use of Source Control
  • Automated Build Process
  • Continuous Integration
  • Test Plans and Test Case Management
  • Test Driven Development
  • Reporting and  Project Status Monitoring with Sprint and Release Burn-downs or Burn-up charts
  • Basic customization of the system
  

Target Audience:

 

The entire Agile team including developers, testers, product management, project facilitators / ScrumMasters.

Certification:

 
This class can result in Scrum Alliance ScrumMaster Certification all participants and Developer Certification for appropriate participants.

 

Prerequisites

This team oriented course on requires a team ready to learn! 

There are no prerequisites for students. The student is, or soon will be, a member of a Scrum team. Ideally a significant part of the team will take the course together.

The instructor will work with your staff to select and set up a platform for the class to use in the class.