Duration: 2 Days
Course Overview
This 2-Day course is suitable for any IT professionals who are interested in implementing Iterative Agile and Scrum methodologies to manage software development. This course is particularly suited to project managers, team leaders, developers and customers of software.
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Course Content
Why Agile?
• Comparison of iterative methodologies.
• Why things go wrong.
• The Agile approach.
• What is Scrum?
Product Owner
• The customer representative.
• Prioritising product requirements.
• Writing effective stories.
• Acceptance criteria.
• Negotiating sprint contents.
• Group exercise to produce customer requirements and write stories based on the requirements.
The Sprint
• Sprint backlog.
• Sprint planning: what to do.
• Sprint planning how to do it.
• What happens during a sprint.
• Burn down charts.
• Group exercise to plan a sprint.
Scrum Master
• Implementing Scrum
• Ensuring proper practices
• Maintaining documentation
• Standup meetings
• When to pair program
• Group exercise to implement Scrum
Finishing a Sprint
• Scrum review meeting
• Scrum retrospective meeting
• Releasing an iteration
• Group exercise then review a sprint
Is Agile and Scrum for you?
• Review of the Scrum process
• Comparison with other methodologies
• Benefits of pair programming
• Group exercise to discuss which aspects of Agile and Scrum can be applied to the delegates’ organisations.