Agile Methodologies Concepts & Principles
Agile Methodologies Foundation
- Instructor-led, Online
- Course Category: Agile Development, Change Management
GBP
45
Instructor-led, Online
Duration: 2 hours
Course Code: TXV-AMF-1836
Skill Level: Beginners
Agile Methodologies Concepts & Principles
Overview
You can’t control the change, but you can control how you react and adapt! Embrace agility and adapt to changes better, learn the right principles, concepts and get it right with agile. Agile is in! No matter which industry, domain, platform or area of your work, you need to be agile, nimble, adaptive and respond to the changes rapidly. To learn and get your agile quotient up, enrol now to TEXAVI’s Agile Methodologies’ Concepts and Principles course!
Who can attend?
- Anybody with or without work experience
- IT professionals (eg., Developers, testers) considering a move to BA role
- Non-IT people who want to learn IT skills thinking of a career switch
- Graduates and university students who aspire to get into IT industry
- Students who have just passed their B. Tec, A-Levels or college studies
COURSE OUTLINE
- Overview and setting the context
- The Agile Manifesto
- The three pillars of agile
- Core agile principles & concepts
- Engaging key stakeholders in agile
- PDCA and the agile toolkit (DMAIC)
- Time-boxing & planning in agile
- Definition of Done & Definition of Ready
- Software testing in agile
- Summary – Q & A
What will you learn?
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Define the Agile Manifesto and discuss its relevance to evolution of agile methods
- List the three pillars of agile development methodologies
- Identify at a very high level, the twelve core values of agile
- Apply the following agile core values while implementing an agile methodology:
- Collaboration between business and development team
- Agility through excellence
- Engaging conversations
- Empowering the team
- Continuous delivery
- Embrace changes
- Working product
- Timeboxing
- Constant pace
- Self-organising teams
- Minimalism approach
- Introspection and retrospective
- Identify at a very hight level, the twelve core principles in agile methods
- Describe how each of the following agile core principles works in the agile methodologies:
- Empower teams
- Early visibility
- Embrace changes
- Continuous delivery
- Collaborative working
- Sustainable development
- Retrospect and adapt
- Self-organising teams
- Focus and prioritise
- Technical and design excellence
- Engage and communicate
- Track progress
- Identify the various stakeholders in an agile context
- Categorise the stakeholders identified into one of the following categories:
- Business stakeholders
- Project stakeholders
- Technical stakeholders
- Development stakeholders
- Apply the PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act) cycle for continuous improvement
- Describe the agile toolkit aka DMAIC and the steps involved:
- Define – State the problem
- Measure – Set baselines
- Analyse – Go to the root
- Improve – Identify the steps
- Control – Assess the results
- Explain how planning works in agile
- Apply the STOp tool to conduct planning in agile
- Apply ‘timeboxing’ concept while planning in an agile project
- Explain team structure in agile projects using Tuckman’s Group Framework
- Forming
- Storming
- Norming
- Performing
- Adjourning
- Explain Definition of Done (DoD) using the criteria and conditions
- Explain Definition of Ready (DoR) using the development ready statuses
- Describe the role of testing in agile
- Identify the various types of testing in agile projects and their suitabilty
- Functional testing
- Integration testing
- Non-functional testing
- Ad hoc testing
- Unit testing
- Black-box testing
- Apply the V-model of testing in relevance to agile development projects
What do you need?
There are no pre-requisites for this course. There is no need for any prior experience, working knowledge or awareness of software development or projects experience. The course is suitable for experienced professionals working in the industry or academia, aspirants and early stage professionals, as well as students in universities and colleges. Professionals and aspirants from technology, business, operations or sales are all welcome to explore and understand the agile methodologies alongside their concepts and principles.
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Trainer Profile
Your trainer for this course is Pardha Saradhi Mantravadi. Pardha is a seasoned and well-qualified trainer, coach, mentor, influencer and thought leader. He has rich and varied IT-industry experience of 25 years, working in different roles as an IT professional with blue-chip organisations viz., HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Dyson, Asda, Cambridge University Press, Roche, King’s College London , Royal Society of Chemistry etc. Pardha delivers his training sessions by blending the concepts and principles with practical insights from real-life projects and programs…click here to view the complete trainer profile.
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