Objective:
The course objective is to instill a common understanding of all functional roles and dependencies in developing and producing capabilities using agile processes and best practices. Course will explore what it takes to perform a successful agile transformation across an organization. There will be a skills and knowledge assessment via a hands-on exercise where students will demonstrate their mastery of these skills. The course graduate will be able to: Create a Product Vision; Create a Product Road map; Write a User Story; Participate in an Iteration/Sprint Planning Meeting; Ability to recommend agile cultural mindset changes needed for success; Create a Sprint Backlog that ensures security and quality testing (software assurance) are embedded in each Sprint iteration; and interpret agile metrics.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand effectiveness and benefits of Agile methodologies for the DoD
- Identify the attributes needed for Agile methodologies to succeed
- Make decisions about DoD agile products, processes and practices
- Create user stories that can be used by development teams to create warfighter products
- Create team effort estimations that can be used to plan software development
- Understand effectiveness and benefits of Agile methodologies for the DoD
- Create team effort estimations that can be used to plan software development
- Create metrics to measure scope and progress in Agile software development
- create roadmaps, release and iteration plans
- create acceptance criteria
- demonstrate how to plan an agile project by creating a product roadmap, release burnup, sprint plan, and sprint Burndown
- Identify the attributes needed for Agile methodologies to succeed
- Make decisions about DoD agile products, processes and practices
- Create user stories that can be used by development teams to create warfighter products
General Course Topics:
- Agile processes and best practices
- Product vision and roadmap
- User story
- Agile cultural mindset
- Sprint backlog
- Software assurance
- Agile metrics