TP3029
Agile Team Experience Training
Teams learn how to successfully apply Agile methods to their projects and programs. Participants will learn the full Agile Development Lifecycle, how to lead teams through Agile ceremonies, and understand techniques and practices to successfully facilitate and execute on project deliverables. All while learning important Agile leadership skills such as Servant Leadership, Facilitation, and the Soft Skills necessary to make these roles a success.
Course Details
Duration
3 days
Prerequisites
No prior knowledge is presumed.
Skills Gained
- Introduce Agile and provide examples on why an organization would choose to implement an Agile framework
- Understand the Servant Leadership style and why it is critical.
- Review Agile Teams Roles and Responsibilities
- Compare and contrast the common Agile Frameworks: Lean, Scrum, XP, and Kanban
- Demonstrate the Agile lifecycle
- Understand and demonstrate effective Story Writing and Estimation techniques
- Develop an understanding of the purpose of each Agile ceremony : (Release Planning, Backlog Refinement, Iteration Planning, Daily Standups, Demos and Retrospectives)
- Demonstrate facilitation of each Agile ceremony
Course Outline
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Agile Overview
- Introductions
- Overview of Agile
- Why Agile
- Agile Manifesto
- Agile Principles
- Activity: Mapping Principles to Manifesto
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Agile Frameworks
- Lean
- Scrum
- Kanban
- Extreme Programming
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The Agile Team
- 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
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Agile Product Backlogs
- Agile Delivery Process
- Agile Requirements Levels
- Progressive Elaboration
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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
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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
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Estimating
- Estimating Techniques
- Sizing Stories
- Why Story Points
- Facilitating Planning Poker
- Activity (Thanksgiving Dinner) - Sizing Stories
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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
- 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
- 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
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Iteration Execution
- Daily Standup
- Task boards
- Workshop – Managing Tasks
- Iteration Demos & Retrospectives
- Iteration Demo
- Iteration Retrospectives
- Creating, Monitoring, & 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
