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CSD - Agile Software Development and Modeling (Course 933)

Taught by: Scotty Kilbourne
Stand out from the crowd with a certification that proves your knowledge and understanding of the scrum framework. The CSD® course is delivered by world-class trainers who have been extensively evaluated and vetted as leaders in technical practices, scrum, and agility. Successful completion of this course includes a two-year professional membership with Scrum Alliance and a globally recognized certification badge.
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 Start February 16, 2016 CUT
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1925 Ballenger Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22314, US

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Tuesday, February 16 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM CUT
Wednesday, February 17 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM CUT
Thursday, February 18 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM CUT
Friday, February 19 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM CUT

With Agile software development, you use iterative, feature-driven, customer-focused Agile practices to develop applications that meet user requirements through a simulated case study. In this training, you also gain practical experience performing each role within an Agile development team..

You Will Learn How To:

  • Manage, design, test and model Agile software projects
  • Plan iterations based on relative effort and business value
  • Monitor progress with backlogs, burn-down charts and task boards
  • Increase quality with test-driven development
  • Maximize team productivity with regular reviews and retrospectives

Active Learning Workshop:

  • Eliciting requirements and writing user stories
  • Creating backlogs and burn-down charts to monitor progress
  • Documenting features using detailed use cases and models
  • Defining acceptance criteria and conditions of satisfaction
  • Programming automated unit tests
  • Conducting reviews and retrospectives

Standard Price: $2,990.00

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Agile Software Development and Engineering Introduction

Defining programming best practices

  • Identifying software development roles and activities
  • Choosing plan-driven vs. Agile methodologies
  • Waterfall
  • V
  • Spiral

Transitioning to Agile Development processes

  • Comparing XP, Scrum, Lean, Kanban, Feature-Driven, Model-Driven and Test-Driven Developments
  • Identifying Agile values, processes and best practices
  • Determining ideal iteration length

Managing Agile Projects

Gathering software requirements

  • Eliciting requirements from users
  • Adopting Agile values
  • Writing user stories

Planning Agile Projects

  • Prioritizing and estimating work
  • Estimating business value
  • Organizing projects by features
  • Dividing features into tasks

Reporting Team Progress

  • Documenting work completed with backlogs
  • Tracking progress with burn down charts
  • Calculating velocity and adjusting to change
  • Projecting project costs and completion dates
  • Monitoring work in progress with task boards

Analyzing User and System Requirements

Modeling for Agile projects

  • Depicting requirements with use case diagrams
  • User-system interactions with activity diagrams
  • Employing sequence and communication diagrams
  • Describing system transitions with state diagrams

Detailing use cases

  • Identifying actors and use cases
  • Identifying pre- and post-conditions
  • Specifying primary and alternative paths
  • Documenting nonfunctional and system requirements

Architecting classes with UML

  • Representing class data and behaviors
  • Recognizing the need for inheritance
  • Defining data requirements
  • Specifying relationships and multiplicities

Test-Driven Development

Defining test levels

  • Acceptance, system, integration and unit testing
  • Employing both automated and manual testing
  • Specifying boundary conditions
  • Driving development through constant testing

Ensuring software meets requirements with user acceptance testing

  • Scripting user acceptance tests
  • Performing exploratory testing
  • Specifying acceptance criteria
  • Determining conditions of satisfaction

Minimizing bugs through automated programmer unit testing

  • Utilizing tools for automated unit testing
  • Writing unit test code
  • Isolating classes for testing
  • Programming mock objects
  • Refactoring for improved design

Optimizing Productivity of Agile Teams

Building Agile teams

  • Team member roles and responsibilities
  • Managing teams for performance
  • Scaling Agile for larger projects
  • Cross-training and pairing for improved productivity
  • Integrating ScrumMaster and Product Owner roles into the development team

Conducting Sprint reviews and retrospectives

  • Techniques for gathering feedback
  • Analyzing how to do better
  • Adjusting to change
  • Reflecting on Agile best practices

Analysts, programmers, designers, architects, testers and other development team members who want an introduction to modern software engineering skills and UML.

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