Adopting Agile Software Development Practices

This Adopting Agile Software Development Practices training course is an introductory level course is geared for managers, programmers, developers, executives, and anyone interested in learning the benefits of agile development.

Attending students should have knowledge of current development processes, such as structured top down development and the waterfall method.

This Adopting Agile Software Development Practices training course is designed top cover the following areas:

Session: Introduction to Agile

• Software Development Life Cycles
  o Mandatory elements
  o Transitions
  o Traditional Life Cycle Models
• Process oriented development
  o CMM
  o Other process models
  o Downsides of process models
• Basis for Agile Development
  o Timeboxing
  o Iterative development
  o Incremental delivery
• Principles of Agile methods
  o Adaptation rather than prediction
  o People oriented rather than process oriented Working with the RAD

Session: The Agile Approach

• The rise of agile programming methods
• The agile manifesto
  o Individuals and interactions
  o Customer collaboration
  o Working software
  o Response to change
• Forms of communication 
• The people factor
  Involving the user
  Involving the Business Analyst
  The agile development team
  Refactoring
• Testing

Session: The System Architecture

• Developing a system model
• Relationship of the model to agile development
• Documentation in the Agile environment
• Structure, method, documentation
• The "open close" principle

Session: Agile Product Definition

• Customer interaction
• User stories
• The requirements backlog
• The safety net effect

Session: Incremental Delivery

• Classic approaches to delivery
• Principles of Incremental Delivery
• Benefits
• Approaches
• Agile Approach: Staged Evolutionary Delivery
  o Background
  o Principles of Tom Gilb
  o Structure
• Evolutionary delivery vs. exploratory development 
• Methodology 
• Structuring the evolutionary project

Session: Iterative Development

• Classic approaches to development
• What is iterative development
• Iterating development cycles
• Benefits of iterative development
• Web site iteration with wire frames
  o Roles of the UX and IA
  o Static versus dynamic prototypes
• User involvement 
• Agile Approach: Phased Iterative Development 
• Team approach
  o Team member roles
• Prototyping sessions
  o Structure
  o Method
  o Documentation
• Timeboxing 
• Phases
  o Data
  o Cosmetic
  o Function
• Change control

The cost of this Adopting Agile Software Development Practices training course is £1450 + VAT per delegate.

The Modulus Approach

Modulus provide high level content rich courses catering for the latest needs of analysts, software developers and test engineers in the financial, gaming and military simulations markets. Workshops are mostly delivered in a bespoke content specific format, for each of our clients but a selection of the most popular topics are being offered in Canary Wharf as public courses.

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