About the Course
The AssistKD Agile Awareness Workshop discusses Agile development and covers the fundamental Agile components including principles, methods and techniques. It is intended for anyone wishing to understand Agile and appreciate how this approach is used in practice.
How is the course structured?
To give you more of an idea of what you’ll learn and how the course will help you, here’s a quick guide to the day.
Day
1
- The Agile Philosophy
- Agile Principles
- Agile Methods
- Agile world view
Anything else?
A comprehensive course manual is provided and the course can be tailored to reflect the emphasis required by the customer.
Full Course Outline
Agile Awareness Workshop (a one-day workshop)
Course Content
The Agile Philosophy
- The Agile Manifesto
- Agile components
- Elements of solution development
Development approaches
- Defined and empirical approaches
- Key features of Agile approaches
- Business thinking and its relevance to Agile
Agile Principles
- The 12 Agile principles
- Core principles
- Collaborative working
- Self-organising teams
- Continuous improvement
- Evolutionary & iterative development
- Incremental delivery
- Built-in change
Agile Methods
- Evolution of agile methods
- Agile approaches: Scrum; eXtreme Programming; DSDM; SAFe; Lean
- Scrum roles
- Agile prioritisation using MoSCoW
User Stories
- The 3 Cs
- Writing user stories: approach and format
- Elicitation techniques
Agile Backlogs
- The solution backlog
- Hierarchy of user stories
- Managing and prioritising the backlog
- Story maps
Agile world view
- Scaling Agile
- Agile system of interest
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