Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises
Who Should Attend/Prerequisites
Software development directors, agile managers and team leads; software developers, testers, architects, and QA personnel whose objective is to provide a step change in the productivity and quality of the software development process. This class tends to draw experienced pracitioners interested in advanced, enterprise practices, so some agile experience is recommended.
Class Size Limit: 20 (Minimum 5)
Course Overview
This course is a based on the author's book Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises. While Agile practices have been applied and recommended primarily to small teams, in this course Dean Leffingwell describes how Agile methods can be applied effectively to enterprise-class development. The course is in three parts:
- Part I provides an overview of the most common and effective Agile methods
- Part II describes seven best practices of agility that natively scale to the enterprise level
- Part III describes an additional set of seven organizational capabilities that companies can master to achieve the full benefits of enterprise-scale software agility
While the course is based on the book, the material is constantly updated based on the instructors ongoing experiences in helping some of the world’s larger software companies transform themselves to become an agile enterprise.
In addition to the delivered content, the small group setting provides an opportunity for informal discussions of some of the real world challenges that attendees face. Since most attendees face significant challenges of agile adoption at scale, the learning environment facilitates experience sharing and practical problem solving in the enterprise context.
Agenda
Part I- Overview of Software Agility
- Introduction to Agile Methods
- Why The Waterfall Model Doesn't Work
- The Essence of XP
- The Essence of SCRUM
- The Essence of RUP
- Lean Software, DSDM and FDD
- The Essence of Agile
- The Challenge of Scaling Agile
Part II - Seven Agile Team Practices that Scale
- The Define/Build/Test Component Team
- Two Level Planning and Tracking
- Mastering the Iteration
- Smaller, More Frequent Releases
- Concurrent Testing
- Continuous Integration
- Regular Reflection and Adaptation
Part III: Creating the Agile Enterprise
- Intentional Architecture
- Lean Requirements at Scale: Vision, Roadmap and Just-In-Time Elaboration
- Systems of Systems and The Agile Release Train
- Managing Highly Distributed Development
- Changing the Organization
- Impact on Customers and Operations
- Measuring Business Performance
A Free copy of the book Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Larger Enterprises will be provided to all attendees.
Cost:
$895 per attendee.