Description

This Agile training offers hands on practice for Iteration Planning, Product Roadmap and Backlog, Estimating Practices, User Story Development and Iteration Execution. Not just methods and approaches. Bring your team together to learn and experience Agile as it should be done

The 3 day Agile Boot Camp is a perfect place for cross-functional teams to familiarize themselves with Agile concepts and methodologies and learn the basics of how to function as an Agile team.

Objectives:

Practice and maintain a regular cadence when delivering working software each iteration

Follow the team approach; start as a team, finish as a team

• Gain knowledge and understanding of Agile principles with context on why they are so important for each team
• Embrace planning from Vision down to Daily level, recognizing the value of continuous planning over following a plan
• Build a backlog of prioritized stories that provides emergent requirements for analysis that also fosters customer engagement and understanding
• Engage in more effective estimating (story points) and become more accurate by being less precise
• Pull together Agile release plans that connect you back to business expectations – including hard date commitments and fixed price models
• Apply Agile testing strategies based on unit and acceptance testing, which creates a bottom up confirmation that your software works
• Avoid the top mistakes made when rolling out Agile practices and how to craft an adoption strategy
• Learn how to adapt from a plan-driven approach to continuous planning, start including actual velocity-driven aspects into your planning, scheduling and tracking
• Gain pragmatic skills, tools and techniques that take into consideration your organization and its culture
• Practice the coaching and communicating skills of a Scrum Master and understand the differences between what a Scrum Master does compared to a traditional Project Manager
• Run multiple iterations using real-life scenarios
• Make your first hands-on experience with agile a classroom experience, not a production experience

Outline:

1. Agile Introduction and Overview

2. Forming the Agile Team

3.  Product Vision

4. Focus on the Customer

5. Creating a Product Backlog

6. Product Backlog

7. Estimating

8. Release Planning

9. Story Review

10. Iteration Planning

11. Iteration Execution

12, Measuring and Communicating Progress

13. Iteration Review and Demo

14. Retrospectives

15. Bringing it all together

Audience:

Because this is an immersion course and the intent is to engage in the practices every Agile team will employ, this course is recommended for all team members responsible for delivering outstanding software. This includes, Business Analyst, Technical Analyst, Project Manager, Software Engineer/Programmer, Product Manager, Product Analyst, Tester, QA Enginee

Please call us at 416-927-7170 or email at info@acratraining.com for more details.  This course can be customized.