This is a one-week-half-day (2 SWS) course on agile methods. I teach both process (Scrum) and technical (favorite XP) practices. In comparison to most other approaches, I review agile methods from the context of more traditional product and project management. Thus, I help people with a traditional background understand agile methods better.

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TABLE of CONTENTS

1. Course Outline
2. Course Materials

A. COURSE OUTLINE

1. Software Industry

1. Types of software development scenarios
   • Software product vendors
   • Software consulting firms
   • In-house software development
2. Revenues and costs
3. Key processes

2. Software Processes

1. Comparison of process models
   • Plan-driven methods
   • Agile methods
   • Open source
2. Key roles and job functions

3. Agile Methods

1. Agile manifesto
2. Scrum overview
   • Roles and responsibilities
   • Practices and processes
3. Extreme programming overview
   • Roles and responsibilities
   • Practices and processes

4. Product Management

1. Traditional vs. agile PM
2. Scrum practices
   • Feature specification
   • Feature prioritization
   • Backlog maintenance
3. Scrum process
   • Release planning
   • Sprint planning

5. Engineering Management

1. Traditional vs. agile EM
2. Sprint planning
   • Planning poker
   • Story-to-task breakdown
3. Sprint execution
   • Daily scrum
   • Next sprint preparation
4. Sprint review
   • Review, release
   • Sprint retrospective

6. Software Development

1. Traditional vs. agile SD
2. Principles
   • Coding guidelines
   • Collective ownership
3. Programming
   • Refactoring
4. Collaboration
   • Build management
   • Configuration management

7. Quality Assurance

1. Traditional vs. agile QA
2. Peer review
   • Pair programming
3. Programming
   • Test-first programming
   • Test-driven development
4. Collaboration
   • Continuous integration

B. COURSE MATERIALS

• Course Slides (ODT, PDF)
• Course Media (mostly videos)