Class overview :

Class goals :

After completing this course, delegates will have gained the following skills:

• Understanding of what ‘Agile’ means to software development
• Understanding how agility helps manage risk
• Ability to choose Agile practices to suit your project
• Ability to create effective test regimes

Content of Agile for Developers

Agile Development

• What Agile Isn’t…
• The Drawbacks Of Traditional Development Methods
• Agility Is An Attitude
• People, Not Processes
• The Agile Manifesto
• Managing Risk
• Iterative Development
• Incremental Development
• Client Involvement
• Barriers To Agile Working
• Agile and Fixed-Price Contracts
• Scaling Agile

Overview of methods

• Extreme Programming
• Test-Driven Development
• Unified Process
• Scrum
• FDD
• Crystal
• Lean Development

Agile and the Development Team

• The traditional team
• Roles: PMs, BAs, developers
• The Agile team
• Self-Organization and Self-Direction
• The Role of the Customer
• Tracking Progress

Requirements

• Just-In-Time Requirements
• Starting with Vision
• Features
• Time-Boxed Development
• User Stories
• Estimating Stories

Architecture and Design

• BDUF bad, LDUF good
• Agile Architecture
• Incremental Architecture and Design
• Coupling and Cohesion
• Handling Dependencies
• Technical Debt

Test-Driven Development

• Unit Testing
• Tools for Unit Testing
• TFD and TDD
• Principles of TDD
• CORRECT and Right-BICEP
• Mock Objects
• TDD Patterns and Anti-Patterns

Refactoring

• What is Refactoring?
• Why Refactor?
• Code Smells
• Refactoring Scenarios
• Tools and Techniques
• Refactoring to Patterns

Continuous Integration

• Always ready to ship….
• The CI Process
• Daily Builds
• Automated Regression Testing
• Tools for CI