Agile Engineering Best Practices Training

Many teams that adopt Agile will tend initially to focus on adopting the Scrum practices of Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Retrospective. The only problem is these practices will not help on the engineering side of the house. The goal of this course is to take a team (Developers, DBAs, Analysts, Testers, Deployers, Architects) through a journey of Agile Engineering Practices founded from methods such as XP, FDD and pure [..]

Teams will walk away with new Team Engineering Norms they will apply to their projects.

Test Driven Development
Metaphor
40 Hour Week
Planning Game
Refactoring
Simple Design
Pair Programming
Agile Testing
Short Releases
Coding Standards
Collective Ownership
Continuous Integration

What you will learn

Understanding of the foundation XP principles
The cost of technical debt
Review the Agile Lifecycle diagram
Agile engineering roles vs. traditional roles
Identifying non-functional foundational requirements
Identifying proof of concepts and spikes
Planning early for dependencies
Planning early for testing (data and environments)
Test Driven Development
User Centric Design
High level architectural designs
High level data designs – just enough
UML Diagrams – Just Enough
Designing Service Contract Interface
Testing with mock data
Unit Testing and Build Automation
Defining build stability rules and measurements
Refactoring
Automated Testing Tools
Define your Engineering Team Norms

Audience

Developers, Analysts, Testers, DBAs, Architects, Development Managers and perhaps Project Managers/ScrumMasters who want to improve engineering practices on their team.

Duration

2 Days