COURSE 5000 | 2-DAY SESSION
Agile Essentials (formerly Agile Software Development Fundamentals)

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A brick-by-brick approach to making your SDLC Agile

Learn how to:

• Identify the key aspects of Agile development and learn your organization’s critical success factors
  
• Compare Agile and Plan Driven Development from an environment, management, people, and customer perspective
  
• Examine Agile processes, including: Scrum, Extreme Programming, Crystal, Feature Driven Development, Lean Development, DSDM
  
• Learn the tools used in Agile development, including their function and importance
  
• Gain Agile development risk mitigation techniques
  
• Understand and develop tests in an Agile development project
  
• Learn how Agile techniques fit into all aspects of the SDLC
  
• Discover and practice“planning” and requirements gathering from an Agile perspective
  

Immediate Benefits of Attending This Class:

1. Live, hands-on experience conducting an Agile Project
   
2. Ensure the success of your transition to Agile methodologies by making the classroom your first time, not a real project
   
3. Understand the iterative / incremental concept, where each iteration produces a product of value
   
4. Learn estimating based on story points and ideal time
   
5. Get a firm understanding of what it takes to make a transition to Agile
   
6. Use retrospectives to improve quality
   
7. Hands-on Agile testing, develop tests for requirements, understanding testing verses debugging
   
8. Learn how requirements emerge during development and practice how to successfully follow this process
   
9. Conduct Agile planning exercises, prioritize requirements and deal with requirements backlog and create a release plan
   
10. Build the skills for successful developer/customer interactions
    
11. Understand the principles of Agile development
    
12. Hands-on Agile requirements managing and iteration planning
    
13. Learn the methods and though process on selecting and building the highest value software first
    
14. Tactics and techniques to empower customer and get them to take control of projects
    
15. Simulate first, second and third iteration during the classroom Agile project
    
16. Understand Agile tools including; testing, refactoring, coding standards, continuous integration, source code control systems, code reviews and pair programming
    
17. Learn agile team development and gain tips and tricks on how to“manage” the self-organized team, including coaching and facilitating techniques
    
18. Compare Agile verses plan-driven development, see the costs and tradeoffs for going Agile
    
19. Get Alistair Cockburn's book Agile Software Development free, and use it in class
    
20. Gain the skills to manage risk, quality, feedback and scope in Agile development projects
    
21. Examine Agile processes including; Scrum, Extreme Programming, Crystal, Feature Drive Development, Lean Development, Dynamic Systems Development Model, and Agile Modeling
    
    

In this powerful two-day course, you'll grasp the concepts, principles, and structure of Agile development and become empowered to execute on your plans for incorporating Agile techniques into your organization.

ASPE has been reviewed and approved as a CPE training provider for the National Assoication of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA). 12 CPEs are awarded upon full completion of Agile Essentials.