Clean Agile

A 1 day introductory course for software executives, managers, and teams. Provides a high level description of Agile Software Development: The principles, practices, motivations, costs, and benefits.

This course provides the overview that starts the conversation, and begins the organization's transition to Agile Software Development.

The day is broken up into three segments.

• The first should be fully attended by executives, managers, technical professionals.
  • The second is for technical professionals and managers.
  • The last is entirely technical.

Audience:

• The entire Software team including executives, managers, leads, analysts, architects, QA, and programmers.

Duration:

• 09:00 - 10:00: Executive Agile Overview. Everyone should attend.
• 10:15 - 12:15: Agile Practices One level down. For Managers, leads, analysts, architechts, QA, and programmers.
• 13:15 - 16:30: Technical Practices A detailed introduction to:
  • Test Driven Development
  • Refactoring
  • Simple Design
  • Collaborative Programming

Outcomes
After this day attendees will:

• ...know, and be able to discuss, the concepts and vocabulary of Agile Software Development.
• ...be able to talk intelligently about the costs, benefits, and practices.
• ...begin to understand their roles in an Agile team.
• ...be confident in their ability to contribute to an Agile team.
• ...be ready to take the next steps towards adoption.

Topics Discussed

• Executive Agile Overview
  • The 30,000 foot picture.
  • Agile vs. Waterfall.
  • The history and future of Agile.
  • Costs, Benefits, Problems and Solutions.

• Agile Practices
  • Planning
  • Team Cohesion
  • Automated Testing
  • Small/Continuous Releases
  • Collaborative ownership
  • Continuous integration

• Technical Practices: Demonstrations and Discussions
  • Sustainable Pace
  • Test Driven Development
  • Refactoring
  • Simple Design
  • Collaborative Programming
  • Test Driven Development
  • Refactoring
  • The Role of QA
  • Measuring Project Status