Adopting Agility with XP, Scrum and Lean Thinking

Course Date: March 4th, 2010 Register Now

The course draws on material from XP, Scrum and Lean and covers everything in the Certified Scrum Master course and more! The interactive style ensures that people leave with the experience and information needed to starting practicing agile methods.

Unlike traditional training, this course challenges participants to listen, practice, and even question agile methods. The covers agile values, principles, and practices of the most popular agile styles (Lean, Scrum, and XP) into a complete package which is being used by sustainable agile communities.

The instructor, David Hussman, has 10 years of teaching and coaching large and small project communities around the world. David brings these experiences to the class, sharing stories that help explain both successes and the failures in adopting and adapting agile methods.

Objectives (tools and techniques participants will learn)

The course covers 4 areas which are key to successful agile adoptions:
- Visioning and Team Building: Assessments – Chartering – Open Workspaces
- Agile Product Planning: Personas – User Stories / Story Maps
- Iterative Delivery: Iterations, Burnup, TDD, CI, Doneness
- Continuous Improvement: Daily stand ups - retrospectives
The core agile values and principles and why agile methods are helpful
Techniques for effectively blending various agile styles (Lean, Scrum, XP)
Tools for selecting a meaningful set of practices and creating informative workspaces
Product planning techniques: product backlogs, personas and user stories / story maps
Pragmatic practices for planning and estimating releases and iterations (sprints)
The skills needed to practice and promote continuous learning and iterative improvement.

Audience (who will benefit)

Anyone interested in adopting or adapting agile methods. The course has a software focus, but it has been adapted to teach non-software development teams to successfully use agile methods.

Course Outline (what we will do)

Day 1: Overview of styles and essence of each, process overview and discussion of skills and roles, product planning and value mining tools like project chartering, personas and user stories, and various ideas for setting up creative and productive working environments. Introduction to agile planning.

Day 2: Leading and tracking release planning and iteration (sprint) planning, a day in the life of an agile project, agile development (coding and more) practices, reviews and retrospectives. The day ends with an agile immersion where you will practice a full range of agile practices and reflect on the experience.

Click here to view or download a more detailed outline for the course. We also provide one hour brown bag overviews as well as custom versions of the course (e.g. shortened one day version).

Provided Materials

Digital copies of presentation materials, exercise, and a coaching handbook
As a green company, DevJam only provides printed materials are available upon request

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