Agile Immersion

A 3-5 day immersive course in Agile Software Development. Students participate in a highly compressed mock agile project during which they experience all major aspects of Agile Software Development.

Audience:

• Programmers
• Testers
• Business Analysts.

The students will be divided into teams of ~6 containing 1 analyst, 1-2 testers, and 3-4 programmers.

Duration:

• 3-5 days.
  The first day is lecture and preparation. The rest of the course will be divided into Agile Iterations. One iteration per day. During this time the teams will:
  • create, prioritize, and estimate feature backlogs.
  • create and adapt development and release plans.
  • create automated test plans.
  • write and refactor code and tests.
  • deliver working features at the end of each day.

Outcomes
After this course attendees will:

• ...know what it feels like to work in an Agile team.
• ...understand planning and estimation.
• ...have experience with automated testing, refactoring, and Test Driven Development.
• ...have failed a few times, and learned how to correct those failures.
• ...be exhausted and exhilarated.