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Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises
Date: 09/11/08
Location: Boulder
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Course Overview
This course is a based on the author's book Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises. While Agile practices have been applied and recommended primarily to small teams, in this course Dean Leffingwell describes how Agile methods can be applied effectively to enterprise-class development. The course is in three parts:
- Part I provides an overview of the most common and effective Agile methods
- Part II describes seven best practices of agility that natively scale to the enterprise level
- Part III describes an additional set of seven organizational capabilities that companies can master to achieve the full benefits of enterprise-scale software agility
While the course is based on the book, the material is constantly updated based on the instructors ongoing experiences in helping some of the world's larger software companies transform themselves to become an agile enterprise.
In addition to the delivered content, the small group setting provides an opportunity for informal discussions of some of the real world challenges that attendees face. Since most attendees face significant challenges of agile adoption at scale, the learning environment facilitates experience sharing and practical problem solving in the enterprise context.
Agenda
Part I- Overview of Software Agility
- Introduction to Agile Methods
- Why The Waterfall Model Doesn't Work
- The Essence of XP
- The Essence of SCRUM
- The Essence of RUP
- Lean Software, DSDM and FDD
- The Essence of Agile
- The Challenge of Scaling Agile
Part II - Seven Agile Team Practices that Scale
- The Define/Build/Test Component Team
- Two Level Planning and Tracking
- Mastering the Iteration
- Smaller, More Frequent Releases
- Concurrent Testing
- Continuous Integration
- Regular Reflection and Adaptation
Part III: Creating the Agile
- Intentional Architecture
- Lean Requirements at Scale: Vision, Roadmap and Just-In-Time Elaboration
- Systems of Systems and The Agile Release Train
- Managing Highly Distributed Development
- Changing the Organization
- Impact on Customers and Operations
- Measuring Business Performance
A Free copy of the book Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Larger Enterprises will be provided to all attendees.
Certified ScrumMaster Training
Date: 09/16/08 – 09/17/08 Location: Boulder Jean
Tabaka Rally Software Development
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Course Overview
This two-day ScrumMaster certification course provides everything you need to get started with Scrum. One of the largest and fastest-growing Agile project management methodologies, Scrum is a simple software management technique that has a small set of interrelated practices and rules, is not overly prescriptive and is able to produce productivity gains for software development teams almost immediately.
Delivered by Certified ScrumMaster trainers, this course shares time-tested practices for managing product backlogs, planning your releases and iterations (Sprints) and tracking and reporting progress. You'll learn how to plan and run Sprint Planning Meetings, daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives and more!
On completion, participants are registered as Certified ScrumMasters (CSMs), which includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, (www.scrumalliance.org) where valuable ScrumMaster-material and information are available exclusively to CSMs.
Important Note: Certification and membership to the Scrum Alliance is not available through the "Agile Program Management with Scrum" courses.
Certified Scrum Product Owner Training : Maximizing Value Delivery via Agile Software Development
Date: 09/23/08 – 09/24/08 Location: Boulder Jean Tabaka Rally Software Development
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Course Overview
Iterative and incremental development requires a steady stream of highest-value Agile requirements which are elaborated just-in-time and thus remain fresh and relevant. Agile software development puts both control and responsibility for success squarely in the hands of the "Product Owner". The challenge becomes how to provide the constant evaluation of value, the constant interaction with the delivery team, and the constant determination off whether requirements are, indeed, done. The best Product Owners harness the Agile feedback loops to constantly improve the value the software organization is delivering. Whether the "product" is for sale in the marketplace, for internal consumption, or custom software built on spec, the Agile product organization must be able to plan for success.
Rally's Certified Scrum Product Owner Training is a two-day, exercise-intensive training designed to help participants.
Attending Product Owners learn:
Agile requirements management-modeling, user stories, acceptance criteria,
just-in-time elaboration, ranking backlog items
Agile planning-visioning, road-mapping, release planning, iteration planning
The Agile product organization-how to organize to support the flow that delivers value iteratively and incrementally, whether you need to support one Agile team, or an entire program or enterprise
Agenda
- Why should a Product Owner adopt Agile?
- What are the Agile Product Owner responsibilities?
- How do Product Owners plan continuously?
- Vision/Charter
- Product Roadmap
- Product Backlog
- Release Planning
- Iteration Planning
- How does a product group organize to fulfill its roles and responsibilities?
- How do Product Owners manage the product backlog effectively?
- User Stories
- Prioritization
- Acceptance Criteria
- How do we inspect and adapt our role?
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