Agile in Action(16 PDUs)

Duration: 2 Day s

Program Overview

Agile methods are becoming increasingly popular among software companies today. Agile methods have proven that the best way to develop complex software projects is using the iterative way. Increased productivity, employee excellence and increased time-to-market are only some of the important benefits of using Agile methods. While everyone has heard the term today, not many understand the finer aspects of what Agile is all about, as Agile methods are to do with change in the culture of the organization.

This program teaches the participants the basics of Agile and Scrum, which is a specific Agile method. Scrum is today the most widely used Agile method for software development. This program introduces the participants to all aspects of Scrum such as various roles, artifacts and meetings defined in Scrum. Estimation being an important activity for software development, this program introduces the participants to some techniques used by Scrum teams for estimation. In addition, release management, tracking, metrics and other such aspects are all dealt with in detail in this program.

The program uses presentations, situational analysis and group exercises to introduce the above concepts. The highlight of the program is the 60-minute Sprint in which participants would work in groups as Scrum teams and will execute a project in a three-day simulated Sprint. This exercise brings out many aspects of Scrum and would give the participants a hands-on feel of how Scrum works.

Target Audience

• Project managers, senior managers, functional managers, project leads, senior tech leads, programmers, testers, SQA and database professionals.

Pre-requisites

• Prior exposure to Agile is a plus though not expected.

Workshop Benefits

Participants will learn at the end of the program:
- Basic practices and values of Agile methods
- Applicability of Agile, Agile manifesto, various Agile flavours
- Scrum values
- Roles, artifacts and meetings specified in Scrum
- Estimation techniques for Scrum
- How to estimate using story points
- How to plan releases
- Some common metrics used by Agile teams
- How to track projects using Agile
- How to form Scrum teams, scaling Scrum
- How to transition to Agile successfully