Course Duration: Eight-hour training session with optional second day for more advanced topics.
Prerequisites: Enterprise development experience
Overview
This training session for development teams introduces fundamental concepts of the Scrum approach to application development.
Related Offering: Agile Player Coaching
Working one-on-one or as a team mentor to player coach your team to successful Agile practices.
Course Topics Overview
Background
- Short history of software development
- Why is application development hard?
- How can we increase the likelihood of success?
Motivations
- Respond faster to market conditions
- Eliminate waste
- Improve staff satisfaction
- Fail faster
- Avoid analysis paralysis
Definitions
- Agile Manifesto
- Scrum, Extreme Programming, TDD
- Sprint, sprint-planning, backlog, relative-rank
- Planning-poker, retrospective, stand-up, burn-down
Contrast With Other Processes
- Waterfall
- S.O.U.P.
- scrum-but
Flavors
- All or nothing?
- Grass roots vs top-down adoption
Getting Started
- Cadence
- Dedicated scrum master
- Relative sizing
- Small teams, Collaborative environment
- Automated testing
Introduction to Advanced Topics
- People managers and scrum masters, not project managers
- Scaling up / multiple scrum teams
- Production maintenance
