This document provides an overview and outline of an agile training course from CollabNet. The training covers: [1] principles and practices of agile development including Scrum, product ownership, and scaling agile; [2] tips for transitioning to agile methods and roles like facilitation; [3] real-world examples and case studies of large organizations using agile. The document highlights positive feedback from past students who found the instructors knowledgeable and exercises engaging.
4. • Principles of Agile
• Reasons for the Agile Principles
• How to use agile practices in the real-world
• Both the benefits and challenges to using agile
practices like Scrum
• The most important role of the Product Owner
• Tips for easing the transition to Agile
• Backlog grooming
• Real-world examples and case studies
• Rules of Scrum
• Roles in Scrum
• Thinking like a facilitator
• Great retrospectives
• Daily Scrum meeting: what to do and what not
to do
• User stories
What you will learn.
• Ideas on estimating
• Tracking progress
• Definition of “done”
• Creating a motivational environment
• Scaling agile
• Working with distributed teams
6. “The instructors
“The
were great – exercises
their experience were fun!”
shows”
“I’ve already
recommended
it for two
of our other
“The instructor managers.”
did a great job”
“Excellent,
“… a very excellent class,
effective and “What was very
highly exceeded my illuminating is how
large organizations
interactive expectations.” (ex. US Army, FAA,
session.” Nokia, etc.) can
“I thought
that the become Agile and
instructor did implement Scrum.”
a great job of
delivering this course,
and I learned a
great deal.”