Agile Methodologies in Indian context
This 2 days course enables organizations to become Agile and provides detailed understanding on Agile principles, values, various Agile methodologies etc. It also provides guidelines on the how to implement/deploy Agile practices and overcome existing cultural barriers, if any.
Objectives / Benefits
- To provide an overview of Agile history, values, principles and have detailed discussion on most applied Agile methodologies, XP and Scrum
- To equip participants with user stories, estimation, planning poker, estimation, project management, project tracking, metrics, and self managed team
- To have a discussion on how the specific organization will change and the issues that concern them in implementing Agile
- To discuss some of the specific customizations needed in Indian context
- To provide a brief comparison with industry frameworks, like, CMMi, ISO, Lean etc.
Duration
2 Days
Course Outline
Day 1
- Ice breaking and workshop norms (15 min)
- Agile overview (1.5 hours)
- An Introduction to business results
- History of iterative and incremental development process
- Agile manifesto (Values)
- Agile principles
- Case study presentation (15 min)
- Agility with XP practices and exercises (3 hours)
- Agile Requirements and User Stories
- Pair Programming
- Test Driven Development
- Refactoring
- Collective Ownership
- Case Studies / Exercises on all above
- Agile estimation and planning (1.5 hours)
- Agile project tracking and agile metrics (1 hour)
Day 2
Agility with Scrum (3.5 hours)
- Scrum life cycle
- Self-organizing team roles and responsibilities
- Sprint planning meeting, Daily stand up meeting
- Sprint demo and retrospective
- Role play: Agile roles
Overview of other Agile methodologies – Crystal, UP, TDD, Evo (30 min)
Agility in Indian Context (2 hours)
- Challenges for Agile adoption in Indian context
- Specific Customizations in Indian context
- Comparison with other industry frameworks, like, CMMi v1.2, ISO, Lean etc (30 min)
- Quick recap and take away practices (15 min)
- Discussion on the way to implement practices in your organization (1 hour)
Who Should Attend?
- Senior and Middle Management in Delivery, Process, Quality and Testing Teams; Senior managers in HR, Operations, other Support functions
- Project leaders, Test leads, Team leads, Developers, Sr. Developers and Testers etc
Trainer Profile
The trainer is Mr. Hariprakash Agrawal, MTech from IIT-KGP and an Agile Coach. His profile can be accessed from our experts page on this website and in LinkedIn.
How to Register?
Please call us at 91 – 9620887298 or write at trainings@opcord.com to know about the Trainer and Cost for this program. One may also Click Here to register for this program and to get special offers/discounts for early registrants, group registrations and corporates.