Valtivity
Agile Whole Team Training in Boston
Date: TBD
Location: TBD
Cost: $200/person or $1,000/group of seven
Agile Whole Team Training provides a complete introduction to the principles and practices of Agile and Scrum using hands-on exercises that are done as a cross-functional team. Not only will you learn how to do Scrum, you will also learn about Kanban, a fast-growing methodology that many organizations are using to supplement their Scrum practices.
As part of the course each participant will get a printed copy of the eBook "Do It Yourself Agile Kickstart" which has everything you need to get up and running with your first Agile project. You'll also get your own pack of Deluxe Planning Poker cards.
Location: TBD
Cost: $200/person or $1,000/group of seven
Agile Whole Team Training provides a complete introduction to the principles and practices of Agile and Scrum using hands-on exercises that are done as a cross-functional team. Not only will you learn how to do Scrum, you will also learn about Kanban, a fast-growing methodology that many organizations are using to supplement their Scrum practices.
Reasons for Attending
- Curious about Agile - gain a better understanding of what Agile is all about.
- About to launch first Agile team - use the course to provide initial training
- Refresher course - for folks in your organization who have never been formally trained on Agile or those who would like a refresher.
Who Should Attend
Anybody involved in development: management, product managers, business analysts, designers, developers, testers, DBAs, technical writers, project managers, etc. . There is no pre-requisite for attending. The more disciplines involved, the better the results you will obtain.Course Ouline
- The advantages of Cross functional and self-organizing teams
- Hands-on: form into teams and pick a software product to "build"
- Hands-on: write User stories, the fundamental building blocks of Agile, for your product
- How to use Story Points and why they are better than hours
- Hands-on: Use Planning Poker with Story Points to estimate your stories
- Hands-on: create and groom a backlog using your stories
- The purpose and structure of Iterations/sprints
- How to use Velocity, Burn-up charts, and burn-down charts to effectively monitor the real health of your project
- Hands-on: Plan an Agile Release of your product
- How Unit tests and Refactoring lead to shorter test cycles and better designs
- How to use Continuous Integration to maximize the benefit of unit tests and refactoring
- Hands-on: How to run stand-up meetings
- Hands-on: How to run retrospectives and continuously improve
- Hands-on: How the concept of one piece flow (aka limited work in progress) prevents gridlock and "mini-waterfall"
- How Taskboards increase visibility and transparency
- The Scrum framework (incorporates everything learned so far)
- The Kanban framework (incorporates everything learned so far)
- How to mix and match Scrum and Kanban
Materials
As part of the course each participant will get a printed copy of the eBook "Do It Yourself Agile Kickstart" which has everything you need to get up and running with your first Agile project. You'll also get your own pack of Deluxe Planning Poker cards.
