Agile Scrum Immersion

Where:   Onsite at CODE Training Center (6605 Cypresswood Dr. Suite 300, Spring, TX 77379)
When:    April 11 - 12, 2012 (Wednesday - Thursday) 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Desc:      An in-depth lecture(40%) and lab style(60%) training to educate attendees about the Agile Development Process. This class is a joint effort between CODE Training and Improving Enterprises.

Organizations are increasingly moving from traditional waterfall methods of software development to agile methodologies. Scrum has emerged as one of the most commonly applied agile practices. Today’s successful software projects implement at least some aspect of Scrum.

This intensive two-day instructor-led course guides participants through every characteristic of Scrum, including roles, planning, artifacts, and most importantly, the motivation behind implementing these elements. All this will be experienced through a balanced combination of lecture, candid discussion, hands-on exercise, and demonstration, as well as a few surprises.

Audience: Anyone involved with the software development process.

Participants will learn to:

• Understand the core agile values
• Distinguish between theory and actionable practices
• Identify the characteristics of Scrum
• Describe roles and responsibilities on a Scrum project
• Track and manage requirements in an agile manner
• Populate and groom a Product Backlog
• Create a Sprint Backlog
• Plan for releases
• Plan for sprints
• Report status and track progress
• Execute a Sprint Review
• Execute a Sprint Retrospective
• Identify, prioritize, and estimate project goals
• Identify acceptance criteria for project goals
• Avoid common agile traps and pitfalls

The training class will be held on-site at our offices in Houston, Texas. Due to the lab style nature of parts of this class, it is only available on site.

Wednesday

1. Introduction to Agile
   • MANIFESTO LAB
   • Agile Values
   • Agile Principles
   • Theory vs Actionable Practices
   • Agile Implementations
   • Scrum Overview
   • XP Overview
   • AGILE PLANNING LAB
2. Overview of SCRUM
   • Product Backlog
   • Sprints
   • Sprint Backlog
   • Scrum Meetings
   • Sprint Review
   • Sprint Retrospective
3. Scrum Roles, Rules, & Practices
   • SCRUM SIMULATION LAB
4. Planning and Estimating
   • Sprint Planning
   • Wisdom of Crowds
   • Planning Poker
   • Relative Estimating
   • SIZING LAB
   • Metrics
   • Velocity
   • VELOCITY LAB

Thursday

1. Requirements
   • Ways to gather requirements
   • How much detail do I need?
   • Use Cases
   • User Stories
   • Ambiguity is Good
   • USER STORY LAB
2. QA
   • What is QA?
   • What is a Test? Requirement?
   • Common QA Anti-Pattern
   • Building the Wrong Things Wrong
   • Acceptance Criteria
   • Types of Testing (Marick Matrix)
   • Agile QA Role
   • ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA LAB
3. Development
   • Agile Development Role
   • Craftsmanship
   • Test Driven Development
   • Lean Pull
4. Agile Miscellany
   • Agile Tools (Demos)
   • Co-Location
   • Large Teams
   • Scrum of Scrum’s
   • Agile Adoption Anti-Patterns
   • 10 ways to fail at Agile

Registration is extremely limited. For more information please e-mail info@eps-software.com or call Christopher at 832-717-4445 ext 13.

Discounts may be available for companies who have previously attended our classes. Call Christopher for details. Please note that instructors & exact curriculum may change. All sales are final.