Advance your career by using the best agile methodology for your team and gathering optimal requirements from your stakeholders and customers.
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A microlearning format that can easily fit into your schedule and budget. Meet in the evenings with live instructors and a small group of professionals.
Try out different agile methodologies to find the right fit for you and your team
Develop a framework for excellence in gathering requirements from your customers
Learn best (and worst) practices that emerge in agile environments
Prerequisites: You have deployed and maintained a Web application in production
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Delve deeply into the meanings and expressions of modern agile. Use those definitions to build a mental model to compare and contrast the major categories of agile software development.
Analyze case studies of software development teams with respect to agile principles
Get into the agile manifesto and agile principles to rank your own agile experiences
Go beyond Scrum to survey the other certified agile software development methodologies. Find out how each one expresses the Agile Manifesto in a different way.
Explore the evolution of agile software development methodologies
Compare and contrast the major categories of agile software methodologies with respect to the twelve principles of agile software development
Start writing great requirements using two of the most common methods, diving into the strengths and weaknesses of each method. Use those requirements to perform mini-iterations for two different agile software development implementations.
Write user stories to document requirements
Use the Unified Modeling Language to document requirements
Perform the management and ceremonies of two agile software development methodologies
Once you have requirements, it’s important to be able to anticipate how long each will take. Explore the different ways that modern agile software development methodologies can be used.
Estimate software development tasks using various methods
Calculate software development velocities
Perform the management and ceremonies of two agile software development methodologies
In each class session, you’ll get to practice portions of different agile software development methodologies.
Managing software development processes is a multibillion-dollar business because building software can be a complex undertaking. Explore the so-called Agile Ecosystem to determine what kinds of process management solutions exist, and how they fit different kinds of agile software development.
Use tools to manage agile software development methodologies
Use tools used for data and systems modeling
Perform the management and ceremonies of two agile software development methodologies
Some agile software development methodologies advertise that they’re a framework on which you can build your own process. Some methodologies are very prescriptive about how a team should practice them. Explore the risks and rewards of partial implementation of methodologies.
Use aspects of Domain-Driven Design to build comprehensible requirements
Perform the management and ceremonies of two agile software development methodologies
It’s time to go beyond just one team. What happens to your methodology when you have a geographically dispersed team? What happens to your methodology when you have multiple teams around the globe? What happens to your methodology when the government regulates your business or lives are on the lines?
Compare and contrast the applicability of agile software development methodologies for distributed teams
Determine best practices for using agile software development methodologies in regulated environments
Perform the management and ceremonies of two agile software development methodologies
Curtis Schlak’s software development career spans more than two decades in software, energy, finance, legal, and education. He has worked as an individual contributor and has led teams of nearly 200 people. He has worked or consulted at Barclays Capital, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, British Petroleum, CITGO Petroleum, Ernst & Young, and Microsoft. He has led software teams at startups like KickFire and DataCert. His consulting firm leads the training and adoption of Feature-Driven Development in the US. He has created and delivered consumer and enterprise training for hundreds of people through The Iron Yard, Hack Reactor, App Academy, and Galvanize. He has a BS in Mathematics, BA in English, and MS in Computer Science. He is currently working on his PhD in Computer Science.
Daniel Billotte’s career as a software engineer began in the mid 90’s, as the Internet was coming of age. He’s worked at large companies like Netscape, AOL, and Canon, as well as smaller companies and entrepreneurial ventures of his own. He has also worked extensively in the printing industry at every level from cleaning floors to building a globally deployed print-shop workflow tool. He helped start the first coding bootcamp in Phoenix in 2014. Daniel enjoys frontend web, but his passion is for building scalable backend systems that use cool technologies like neural networks. When he isn’t working or playing with his family, he’s riding his mountain bike, learning DSP/audio programming and audio circuit engineering, or breathing new life into an old truck. Daniel has a BS in Computer Science from Arizona State University.
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