Agile Team Experience


Course Number: AGL-204
Duration: 3 days (19.5 hours)
Format: Live, hands-on

Agile Teams Training Overview

The Agile Team training course is a hands-on workshop that teaches teams about the Agile Development Lifecycle, servant leadership, and essential Agile ceremonies. Participants learn how to work effectively in an Agile team and use Agile practices to deliver high-quality products and services on time and within budget. This course emphasizes practical Agile practices and demonstrates how Agile can be integrated into real-world projects.

Location and Pricing

Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.

In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.

Objectives

  • Learn Agile principles and frameworks
  • Understand servant leadership and team roles and responsibilities
  • Apply Agile ceremonies to real-world projects
  • Master story writing and estimation techniques
  • Facilitate Agile ceremonies effectively

Prerequisites

None.

Outline

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Introduction
Agile Overview
  • Why Agile?
  • Agile Manifesto
  • Agile Principles
  • Activity: Mapping Principles to Manifesto
Agile Frameworks
  • Lean
  • Scrum
  • Kanban
  • Extreme Programming
The Agile Team
  • Servant Leadership defined and expectations
  • Servant Leadership vs Command and Control
  • Defining Self-Organized Teams
  • Agile Roles – Product Owner
  • Agile Roles – ScrumMaster
  • Agile Roles – The Team
  • Activity
Agile Product Backlogs
  • Agile Delivery Process
  • Agile Requirements Levels
  • Progressive Elaboration
Effective User Stories
  • Work item levels: THEME/EPIC/STORY
  • User Stories deep-dive
  • User Stories: Examples
  • Guidelines for User Stories
  • User Stories: I-N-V-E-S-T
  • Workshop: Correcting User Stories
  • Workshop (Online Real Estate) Part 1 – Writing User Stories 
  • Story Mapping
  • Workshop (Online Real Estate) Part 2- Utilizing Story maps to generate stories
Acceptance Criteria/Test
  • What is Test Driven Development (TDD)
  • Acceptance Criteria vs Acceptance Test
  • Why Acceptance Criteria?
  • Documenting Acceptance Criteria/Test
  • The Gherkin Format 
  • Definition of Done (DoD)
  • Workshop (Online Real Estate) – Writing Acceptance Criteria
Estimating
  • Estimating Techniques
  • Sizing Stories 
  • Why Story Points 
  • Facilitating Planning Poker
  • Activity (Thanksgiving Dinner) - Sizing Stories 
Backlog Prioritization
  • Backlog Prioritization Techniques
  • Estimating - Business Value
  • MoSCoW Analysis
  • Value Risk (6 cell/9 cell models)
  • Workshop (Online Real Estate) – Prioritize Stories
Building a Release Plan 
  • Team Velocity
  • Release Planning
  • Sample Release Plan
  • Workshop – Create a release plan
Backlog Refinement 
  • Backlog Refinement Fundamentals
  • Definition of Ready (DoR)
  • Decomposing User Stories
  • S-P-I-D-E-R Method
  • Facilitating Refinement Sessions
  • Workshop (Online Real Estate) – Refine the backlog
Iteration Planning
  • Break Down All Tasks
  • The Team’s Definition of ‘Done’
  • Capacity Planning
  • Facilitating Iteration Planning Sessions
  • Workshop Online Real Estate) – Plan your first iteration\capacity plan
Iteration Execution
  • Daily Standup
  • Task boards
  • Workshop – Managing Tasks
Iteration Demos & Retrospectives
  • Iteration Demo
  • Iteration Retrospectives
  • Creating, Monitoring, and Maintaining an Improvement Backlog
  • Workshop: Practice a Retrospective
Advanced Metrics
  • Metrics: Velocity Trends
  • Metrics: Forecast vs. Completed
  • Metrics: Burn-up Charts
  • Metrics: Burn-Dow Charts
  • Lead Time/Cycle Time
  • How to use Metrics to achieve results
Conclusion

Training Materials

All attendees receive comprehensive courseware.

Software Requirements

Accelebrate can provide a remote lab environment for this class.  All attendees should have computers with Internet access and a modern web browser (ideally Chrome).



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