Applying Professional Scrum for Software Development

COURSE OVERVIEW

3-days Agile Software Development training provides a real-world view of what it is like to build software with Scrum, XP and DevOps. Throughout the course, students collaborate together as a team in a series of Sprints where they apply modern engineering practices and use the Scrum framework to cope with changes. Over the 3 days, students learn how to develop increments of potentially releasable functionality from a realistic Product Backlog.

Students concurrently do requirements engineering, design, development, testing, integration, and deployment within a single iteration. The course teaches how Agile engineering practices and supportive ALM tools improve a team’s capabilities even more.

The course is available in C#, Java, C++, JavaScript, Mobile Apps, Python, Ruby and functional programming technologies, or trainers can work with your specific technology stack to make the course meet your specific needs. 

Course Topics

• Using Scrum
• Working within a Scrum Team •
• Definition of Done
• Development Practices
• Test Driven Development
• Pair Programming
• Code Review
• Using ALM tools with Scrum

Learning Objective

• Introduction to Scrum Framework, Elements of Scrum
• Test Driven Development – why, what and how
• TDD Cycle – Red, Green and Refactor
• Drive the development (design and implementation) of a User Story
• Learn concept of Emergent Design and why emergent design
• How TDD helps you design software
• Why testing first is better than testing after
• Overview of Refactoring, Clean Code principle and Refactoring to Patterns
• Software design – going deeper in SOLID design Principles
• How to use mocking frameworks
• Behavior Driven Development using SpecFlow/Cucumber
• Specification by Examples using Gherkin language
• Writing Scenarios and Scenario Outlines
• Preparing Steps using xUnit framework
• Difference between TDD and BDD
• How to setup BDD practices within Scrum team

Tools

• ALM – It can either Jira, Team Foundation Server, VersionOne, Trello or Rally
• Continuous Integration – Jenkins, Bamboo, TFS, CircleCI, Team city or Hudson etc.
• ATDD/BDD – Cucumber, Specflow, Behave, Behat, CucumberJS
• TDD – Nunit, Junit, CPPUnit, Rspec etc.
• DevOps – Vagrant, Docker, Ansible, Nagios, Splunk etc.

Key Learning Activities

Hands-on activities (60-70%) and discussion on mentioned topics (30-40%). Hands-on activities include writing unit test, code, writing examples and some group creativity activities.

Target Audience

The Professional Scrum Developer course is intended for all members of a Scrum Development Team; architects, programmers, database developers, testers, and others with some technical knowledge. The class focuses on using technology to deliver software in Increments.

Certification

This course has the Professional Scrum Developer level I (PSD I) as associated credential. All participants completing the Professional Scrum Developer course receive a password to take the PSD I assessment.

This industry-recognized certification requires a minimum passing score on the associated rigorous assessment. Scrum.org maintains a public list with everyone holding a PSD I credential.

This is a practical training on modern engineering practices to develop software using Scrum, XP and DevOps. This is NOT a coding training although will be talking about emergent design, coding practices and clean code etc.

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