This one-day course presents a step-by-step approach to Agile for managers and executives. The course provides you with overviews of key principles and benefits of applying Agile methodologies.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Understand Agile Practices and Principles.
- Obtain valuable information from industry surveys identifying compelling Agile benefits realized by companies worldwide.
- Gain insights 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.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This course is designed for anyone who is considering the use of an Agile method for software development, including:
- Project Managers;
- Analysts;
- Developers;
- Programmers;
- Testers;
- IT Manager/Directors;
- Software Engineers;
- Software Architects;
- Customers.
PREREQUISITES:
There are no prerequisites for this course.
COURSE MATERIALS:
Students will receive a course manual with presentation slides and reference materials.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
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.
