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Agile Boot Camp

5 Days Workshop $3,300 per person

Background: An increasing number of Information Technology organizations are exploring the concepts of Agile development. Menlo Innovations' Agile Boot Camp is an opportunity to study an organization that has fully adopted Agile practices.

Course Description:

Day 1 – Agile Explained

The adoption of Agile does not make development team smarter and therefore faster. Agile is the process of building a closer working relationship between business sponsors and software developers in which the most important requirements are prioritized highest and completed first. By building a closely collaborating team that is not driven by heroic effort, the organization can achieve sustainable success.

  • What does Agile mean
  • Software development success factors
  • Why adoption of agile requires cultural change for both the technologists and the business sponsors
  • A tour of Menlo’s software factory
  • Transforming change management into a competitive advantage
  • How agile eliminates waste
  • Agile FAQs

Days 2 – 4 – Writing Agile Requirements

Workshop participants spend three days learning the theory of requirements gathering and specification in an agile environment. But perhaps more importantly, they gather requirements for several projects in real world learning experiences.
  • What are requirements?
  • Establishing the project vision
  • Why interviews and meetings are not enough
  • User observation, a key practice in identifying requirements
  • Actors and personas as a key tool in design and testing
  • Brainstorming, screen mockups, and low tech user testing
  • Visualizing requirements with storyboards
  • From Storyboards to story cards
  • Inspirations

Day 5 – Agile Project Management

Workshop participants spend the day doing hands-on activities learning how the processes of formal project management occur within an Agile environment. This portion of the course is taught by a PMP certified project manager.
  • PMI (Project Management Institute) Knowledge Areas
  • Writing story cards, Estimating project effort, Interactive planning
  • From planning to authorized work & Communicating status
  • Human resource questions about working in an Agile environment
  • Agile Boot Camp review

Audience: Software developers, programmers, designers, architects and managers.

Duration: 5 Days

Prerequisites: None



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