Overview
Audience
The Agile Express is a must-attend for business technology leaders who are looking for higher quality software with more predictable results.
Business Stakeholders and Executives, Project Managers, User Experience Designers, Business Analysts, Software / Application Development Managers and Leads, QA / QA Managers and Anyone evaluating Agile ALM solutions
Track One: New Agilist
- 8:30 – 9:00 Coffee and Registration
- 9:00 – 10:30 Why Agile
- 10:30 – 12:00 Agile Principles and Key Concepts
- 12:00 – 1:00 Catered Lunch and Networking
- 1:00 – 2:30 Engineering Practices/Quality
- 2:30 – 4:00 Planning and Managing
- 4:00 – 5:00 Open Spaces
Track Two: Practicing Agilist
- 8:30 – 9:00 Coffee and Registration
- 9:00 – 10:30 Introduction to Continuous Delivery
- 10:30 – 12:00 The Balanced Team: Experience Design and Agile
- 12:00 – 1:00 Catered Lunch and Networking
- 1:00 – 2:30 Kanban: A Layman’s Guide
- 2:30 – 4:00 Redefining QA: Automated Functional Testing
- 4:00 – 5:00 Open Spaces
Learning Objectives:
New Agilist
- Understand the origins of Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), and Lean software development and the driving philosophies behind the various methods
- Understand the reasoning and principles driving an Agile environment
- Understand the core engineering practices that enable Agile software development
- Understand how quality is embedded into Agile teams
- Understand how to effectively plan, track and communicate progress on Agile projects
Practicing Agilist
- Understand the value of a balanced team approach to software delivery that includes user centered design approaches
- Understand and further develop the idea of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
- Understand the anatomy of an Agile team, the roles and responsibilities and the life cycle in which it operates
- Understand Kanban: The main goals, the ideas behind the practices and the best way to implement in an existing environment
- Understand QA and Automated Functional Testing, various methodologies and the benefits associated with providing consistent and reliable code
