Software Quality | Design Patterns Workshop for Effective Agile Development

Rod Claar CST® - Principal Consultant

Rod Claar is a software development coach and instructor with broad experience in Design Patterns, Test Driven Development, Scrum and Agile methodologies. A specialist in coordinating large teams and large projects to increase return on investment through Agile principles and practices.

Rod has extensive experience teaching and coaching teams to achieve their goals.

Rod believes that team building is at the heart of this success. Teams get more done than do the same individuals working independently.

Rod teaches that team building and team effectiveness are built on communication. Communication at all levels of the organization. Communication of goals and rationale. Communication of success and failure.

Rod coaches that in software development, second only to the team and effective communication is quality. Quality that is built-in and never sacrificed. Quality starts with requirements. Requirements have to be understood through business or customer statements that describe the value to be returned rather than a definition of the proposed solution. Quality continues as the team executes the agile practices tailored to their situation. The quality of the process is always pushed higher.

Rod specializes in Retail Technology, Training, Course Development, Software Development Coaching and Mentoring, Enterprise Databases, Design Patterns, Test Driven Development, Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio Team System and people.

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HANDS-ON QUALITY AND DESIGN PATTERNS

Hands-On Software Quality and

Design Patterns Workshop for

Effective Agile Development

Practical, Hands-on Training for Agile Teams

This two or three day course gives the participants actual hands on experience with the concepts and practices of Agile Software Development. For a team to reach the productivity of a hyper-productive team not only does their process need to be Agile, but their product needs to be Agile. This means that the code must be easily adaptable to reasonable change. This means that the code must be testable, and tested. This means that the team must truly understand how to create maintainable software.

The original Software Design Patterns book is almost not comprehensible to even the most experienced developers, yet it offers an enormous insight into how to write better, more maintainable software. This course not only explains what the Design Patterns book is trying to say, but it also gives the students hands-on practice finding and using some of the most common software design patterns.

This course, inspired by the book "Design Patterns Explained" by Alan Shalloway and Jim Trott, will offer a fresh look at software quality, design patterns and the practical issues of Agile software from the developer's point of view. This course also draws heavily on the popular book "Head First Design Patterns" by Eric and Elisabeth Freeman for its code examples.

Course Objectives

· An understanding of the attributes of Agile software

· An example based exposure of some common software design and quality problems

· A review of the important aspects of Agile quality code

· A focus on Agile Architecture and Design for Maintainable Software

· Practical, skill and experience building practice in Agile Design

· Instruction and practice to develop your skills with Design Patterns

· Discussion and practice about Emergent Design

Design Patterns Covered

Strategy	Adapter	Decorator
Bridge	Facade	Chain of Responsibility
Analysis Matrix	Singleton	Template Method
Abstract Factory	Proxy (Several)	Iterator

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