Course Description: This one-day course presents a step-by-step approach to Agile for Executives. The course provides you with overviews of key principles and benefits of applying Agile methodologies.
Defining the Challenges of Software Development
● Making the Case for Change
● What is the problem Agile is trying to solve?
Course Topics:
Defining the Challenges of Software Development
● Making the Case for Change
● What is the problem Agile is trying to solve?
Defining the Agile Proposition
● Why Agile
● The Agile Paradigm
● Agile Basics
● Agile Manifesto and Principles
● Agile Methodologies
● Five Levels of Agile Planning
● Agile Benefits — including industry data, survey results and personal experience
The Path to Agile Adoption
● Dealing with Barriers to Agile Adoption
● An Agile Organization
● Driving Investment Decisions with Agile
● The path to successful Agile adoption
Learning Goals:
● Understand Agile Practices and Principles
● Obtain valuable information from industry surveys identifying compelling Agile benefits realized by companies worldwide
● Gain insight into effective metrics for managing Agile team performance
● Dispel the myth that mid and long term planning are abandoned with Agile
● Appreciate how teams and management can build trust more quickly
● Discuss the transition from command and control to empower and inspire style of leadership
● Explore how to help teams to create a cadence that will enable them to succeed
● Understand tools and techniques for promoting transparency in communication at all levels
● Identify some of the common pitfalls Agile teams may encounter
● Learn from an instructor with day-to-day experience implementing agile practices across multiple organizations
● Glean knowledge of Agile team roles and where the Executive fits
Course Agenda:
Day 1
● Agile Overview
● Agile Basics and Practices
● Becoming Agile
who can attend?
This course is designed for anyone who is considering the use of an Agile method for software development, includingk● Project Managers
● Analysts
● Developers
● Programmers
● Testers
● IT Manager/Directors
● Software Engineers
● Software Architects
● Customers

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