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Agile

Advanced Development Team

Course Overview

This course provides an in-depth understanding of the role and responsibilities of the Development Team, and guidelines to help a Team to become more successful.  Participants learn how to refine a product backlog, including estimating, soliciting acceptance criteria, and decomposing stories.  Students are also introduced to the technical practices that are used on an Agile project.

The course is approximately 50% lecture / discussion and 50% hands-on exercises.

Course Length

2 days

Target Audience

This course is intended for those who want an in depth understanding of how a self directing team functions on an Agile project.  It is intended for Developers, Testers, QA Engineers and Managers who work closely with a Development Team

Course Prerequisites

Scrum Fundamentals

Learning Outcomes / Objectives

Upon completing this course, participants will be able to

  • Estimate User Stories
  • Work with a Product Owner to determine the Acceptance Criteria for a Story
  • Plan a sprint
  • Decompose Epics into User Stories
  • Define the tasks necessary to complete a User Story
  • Develop definitions of Done and Ready

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Topic List

  1. Overview of Agile and Scrum
    1. When to use Scrum
    2. Agile Manifesto
    3. Agile principles
    4. Overview of Scrum
    5. Scrum Artifacts and Ceremonies
  2. Scrum Roles and Responsibilities
    1. Product Owner
    2. ScrumMaster
    3. Development Team
    4. Other roles (not defined by Scrum)
  3. Refining the Product Backlog
    1. The 3 C’s of backlog grooming
    2. Definition of Ready
    3. Acceptance Criteria
    4. Decomposing stories into smaller stories
  4. Velocity, Estimation and Sprint Planning
    1. Story points
    2. Relative vs. absolute estimation
    3. Velocity
    4. Planning Poker and other estimating techniques
  5. Planning a sprint
    1. The Sprint Planning meeting
    2. Defining tasks for a story
  6. During the sprint
    1. Inspect and adapt
    2. Measuring progress
    3. Definition of Done
  7. Introduction to Best Practices
    1. Test Driven Development
    2. Acceptance Test Driven Development
    3. Refactoring
    4. Continuous Integration
  8. Putting it all together – the Agile Game

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