Course Description: This one-day course presents a step-by-step approach to Agile for Executives. The course provides you with overviews of key principles and benefits of applying Agile methodologies.
Defining the Challenges of Software Development
? Making the Case for Change
? What is the problem Agile is trying to solve?
Course Topics:
Defining the Challenges of Software Development
? Making the Case for Change
? What is the problem Agile is trying to solve?
Defining the Agile Proposition
? Why Agile
? The Agile Paradigm
? Agile Basics
? Agile Manifesto and Principles
? Agile Methodologies
? Five Levels of Agile Planning
? Agile Benefits — including industry data, survey results and personal experience
The Path to Agile Adoption
? Dealing with Barriers to Agile Adoption
? An Agile Organization
? Driving Investment Decisions with Agile
? The path to successful Agile adoption
Learning Goals:
? Understand Agile Practices and Principles
? Obtain valuable information from industry surveys identifying compelling Agile benefits realized by companies worldwide
? Gain insight into effective metrics for managing Agile team performance
? Dispel the myth that mid and long term planning are abandoned with Agile
? Appreciate how teams and management can build trust more quickly
? Discuss the transition from command and control to empower and inspire style of leadership
? Explore how to help teams to create a cadence that will enable them to succeed
? Understand tools and techniques for promoting transparency in communication at all levels
? Identify some of the common pitfalls Agile teams may encounter
? Learn from an instructor with day-to-day experience implementing agile practices across multiple organizations
? Glean knowledge of Agile team roles and where the Executive fits
Course Agenda:
Day 1
? Agile Overview
? Agile Basics and Practices
? Becoming Agile
who can attend?
This course is designed for anyone who is considering the use of an Agile method for software development, includingk? Project Managers
? Analysts
? Developers
? Programmers
? Testers
? IT Manager/Directors
? Software Engineers
? Software Architects
? Customers