Agile Modeling for project management Training

Introduction

• Approaches more adapted to new technologies.
• Communication. Competence and commitment of resources.
• Iterative and incremental life cycle. Change acceptance Panorama.
• Presentation of the main agile methods: Crystal Clear, XP, Scrum, FDD, DSDM, RAD, ASD.

eXtreme Programming

• Best development practices. Quality.
• Define the context of use. Measure and establish the requirements for success.
• A continuous project process. Design, validation and continuous integration. Development and delivery iterations.
• A constant feedback. Test-driven development. Planning with customer scenarios.
• The client integration. Pair programming.
• Assessment of costs and deadlines. Estimation of scenarios. Individual and team velocity.
• Actors. Roles and responsibilities.

Case study
Scenarios description by user’s stories.

Scrum

• Features. Actors and roles. Product Owner. ScrumMaster.
• Product Backlog. Stories, features, sprint backlog, tasks.
• Evaluate of the size of the stories : planning poker. Assessing the amount of work.
• Planning a release, planning a sprint. Review, retrospective.
• Monitoring: update sprint and release burn down chart.
• The meaning of the finish for a release, a sprint.
• Adaptation of scrum context. Subcontracting. Tools.

Case study
Achieve the sprint 0: identify features. Estimate the size of the stories : planning poker. Build a release plan. Develop a sprint backlog.

Software engineering and RAD (Rapid Application Development)

• Programming: Test-driven development, simple design and redesign.
• Collaboration: pair programming, collective code responsibility, coding rule, metaphor, continuous integration.
• RAD : the origin of agile methods. Key concepts: time box, participatory approach, actors.
• DSDM, an evolution of the RAD method.

Synthesis

• Agile answers to project risks.
• The success factors of an agile project.