Looking to receive Agile training before the end of the year?

Visit Agile University and register for a broad range of courses coming up in December! AU Trainers are offering Certified ScrumMaster Training, an Agile Mastery course, an Agile Boot Camp, Product Owner trainings and a course on using FitNesse.

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This course prepares all members of an Agile team for the realities of working in a highly collaborative and effective software development environment. Over the course of an intense three-days, Agile Mastery provides the breadth and depth of knowledge team members need to begin working in short iterations to produce working software incrementally.

Using hands-on exercises, participants learn how to write effective user stories, estimate in relative units, track velocity and plan releases, create and interpret a variety of information radiators, participate in daily stand-ups, and much, much more. Toward the end of the course, participants learn to recognize and correct problems that may arise when making the transition to an Agile process.

AU students may purchase one registration and bring a colleague for free! Enter a discount code of "VALBOGO" for the second registrant only.

This two-day ScrumMaster certification course taught by Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainers provides everything you need to get started with Scrum. One of the largest and fastest-growing Agile project management frameworks, Scrum is a simple software management technique that has a small set of interrelated practices and rules, is not overly prescriptive and is able to produce productivity gains for software development teams almost immediately.

This course shares time-tested practices for managing product backlogs, planning your releases and iterations (Sprints) and tracking and reporting progress. You'll learn how to plan and run Sprint Planning Meetings, daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives and more!

On completion, participants are registered as Certified ScrumMasters (CSMs), which includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, (www.scrumalliance.org) where valuable ScrumMaster material and information are available exclusively to CSMs.

This intensive three-day program provides a highly interactive exploration of Agile principles and practices. Participants learn how Agile roles relate to traditional project roles, study Agile planning and estimation, then drill down on both short-term and long-term planning in successful Agile projects.

To give a real world sense of Agile at work, the boot camp uses a hands-on simulation of the Scrum project lifecycle, teaching key Scrum terminology, concepts and practices. In the project simulation, participants:

• Learn the Scrum software development lifecycle
• Explore Scrum project tracking and reporting, examining different approaches to measuring and communicating project performance and quality
• Practice techniques necessary to create highly productive Scrum teams

Enter AgileBoston in the discount field and receive $400 off your registration fee!

The traditional view of requirements communication allows for a high degree of ambiguity and error. In this course, we will examine the commonality between requirements and tests and how a requirement can be effectively communicated in the form of a test. By placing the emphasis on the specification of requirements in the form of tests we are at once both increasing the quality of communication among team members and ensuring that testing is not an activity that gets tacked onto the end of a sprint.

Participants will gain hands on experience in new communication strategies and leave with practical experience using Fit/Fitnesse to formalize requirements into executable tests. We will show how this change accelerates development and reduces defects found late in iteration cycles. Concepts learned in this class will be directly applicable to the problem of integrating Q/A into short iterations/sprints.

The class will explore the requirements of a fictitious project and follow the evolution of those requirements as Fit tests. We will examine the various Test Styles Fixtures available within Fit and provide advice surrounding best practices for making tests clear and easy to read. The team will also learn about the capabilities and limitations of the wiki based Fitnesse front end to Fit.

AU students may purchase one registration and bring a colleague for free! Enter a discount code of "VALBOGO" for the second registrant only.

This course is designed specifically to help Product Owners clearly understand their role on an agile team and how they can effectively and efficiently work with the team to create, organize, and maintain a product backlog. This course is a 50/50 ratio of lecture to labs.

Over this 2 day course, students will apply what they learn by first creating a product vision and roadmap. They will then spend a significant amount of time learning how to write effective user stories that can then be estimated and prioritized to aid in release planning. Students will then learn how to prepare for an iteration planning meeting by creating acceptance criteria for prioritized user stories. Near the end of the 2nd day, students will learn how to track and communicate project progress using velocity metrics and release burn-downs.

AU students may purchase one registration and bring a colleague for free! Enter a discount code of "VALBOGO" for the second registrant only.