Applied Agile
Who Should Attend/Prerequisites
Product Owner, Business Analyst, Software Analyst, QA, Testers, ScrumMaster, Process Advocate, Project Manager, Software Developers, Architects and anyone else involved in product development, especially software product development. Sometimes these
Class Size Limit: 21 (Minimum 0)
Course Overview
This course is a unique blend of training that immerses participants in an Agile team that is up and running as well as standard classroom learning. Participants will learn deep skills that they can apply to their unique situation and see those same skills in practice as they shadow a real team through key product development events.
This training creates an immersion experience that mixes theory, simulation and real application.
Classic IT organizations faced with growing project complexity often look to Six Sigma or similar for process improvement. Tools such as DMAIC and SIPOC are powerful when applied to repeatable processes, but software development creates a different product with each project. Organizations that focus on process will bring slight gains in quality, but dramatically slow product development. Infrastructure takes longer to plan and deploy at the expense of being obsolete when finally deployed.
Agenda
This 3-day highly interactive event will demonstrate Agile methods proven to gain both productivity (4X) and quality (10X). Theory is taught in the classroom and powerfully reinforced by visits to an actual Agile software development team (in-flight on a real project) and experiences shared by instructors who have done it. Participants will be able to see 1st hand working product backlog, observe daily stand-up synchronization meetings, and view a high-performing, collaborative Agile team in action. The class will work through an unfolding requirements simulation, guided by vision, and grouped into small iterations so that the final outcome emerges from pieces completed just in time. There will be two highly qualified instructors present to handle the intense interactive discussions that are necessary to learn from these experiences.
Together, Guy & Doug have implemented Agile methods in all size organizations, ranging from a $1.3 Trillion Financial Services corporation to start-ups and everything in-between. You will not find another training course quite like this one. We have neither seen nor heard of a better way to teach this material. Please be prepared for an intense, yet satisfying experience.
Cost:
$1,750 per attendee.