Overview
Recently, Agile mindset and methodologies have established themselves as effective ways for managing the software development journey. With their primary focus on incrementally building the product, empowering members, and self-organization, Agile methods present an innovative response to the ever increasing software complexity.
This course is accredited by ICAgile.org. Attendees are eligible to receive Agile International Certified Professional, ICP, upon attending and passing the exam.
The course design is not meant to educate trainees only, but to also engage them in many exercises, activities and examples. The target of this course is to live the experience and feel it, so you can return and apply it to your project. The course is taught by an Agile software expert, find more details about the instructor bio, here.
Course Outline
- Agile Teams
- Distributed Teams
- Iteration Based Lifecycle
- Requirements Development
- Chartering
- User Stories
- Done Definition
- Relative Sizing
- Sprint/Iteration Planning
- Iteration Work
- Continuous Design (Refactoring)
- Continuous Integration
- Continuous Testing
- Pair Programming
- Standup Meet
ing
- Review Workshop
- Retrospective Workshop
- Iteration Tracking
- Impediments tracking
- Burn down chart
- Release
- Release Planning
- Selecting Iteration Length
- Release Tracking
- History of Agile
- Agile Manifesto
- Agile Culture and Mindset
- IBM Project Discovery
- Modern Agility
- Kanban
- Continuous delivery
- Lean Startup
- Scaled Teams
Target Audience
Anyone involved in creating or managing software projects. This includes but not limited to project managers, programmers, testers, team leaders, QA, analysts, UI/UX specialists, etc.
Course Duration
- 3 Days
- From 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Pre-requisites
There is no prerequisite for this course.
Benefits
- 17 PDUs for PMI Certification holders.
- 17 Contact Hours/PDUs with PMI for participants willing to take the PMI-ACP certification exam.
ICAgile Certification
This course is the official ICAgile Certified Professional course. In order to be certified, students should attend the whole course, pass an exam and pay $35 fees to ICAgile. In order for IBM to reimburse the fees, you have to get manager approval before attending the course. For more details, please visit: www.icagile.org.