The Agile Essentials course will give you the knowledge to be part of agile team and achieve high performance. The course is aimed at professionals who are working within Agile environments or planning to start implementing Agile methods in the near future.

Training objectives:

• Be well prepared for the Agile implementation.

• Understand and implement effective Agile techniques.

• Learn aspects of planning, estimation and testing in Agile environment.

• Identify the missing skills for the career development purposes.

This course covers the following areas:

1. Agile Software Development

1.1 The Fundamentals of Agile Software Development

1.1.1 Agile Software Development and the Agile Manifesto

1.1.2 Whole-Team Approach

1.1.3 Early and Frequent Feedback

1.2 Aspects of Agile Approaches

1.2.1 Agile Software Development Approaches

1.2.2 Collaborative User Story Creation

1.2.3 Retrospectives

1.2.4 Continuous Integration

1.2.5 Release and Iteration Planning

2. Fundamental Agile Testing Principles, Practices, and Processes

2.1 The Differences between Testing in Traditional and Agile Approaches

2.1.1 Testing and Development Activities

2.1.2 Project Work Products

2.1.3 Test Levels

2.1.4 Configuration Management

2.1.5 Organizational Options

2.2 Status of Testing in Agile Projects

2.2.1 Communicating Status, Progress, and Product Quality

2.2.2 Managing Regression Risk with Evolving Manual and Automated Test Cases

2.3 Role and Skills of a Tester in an Agile Team

2.3.1 Agile Tester Skills

2.3.2 The Role of a Tester in an Agile Team

3. Agile Testing Methods, Techniques, and Tools

3.1 Agile Testing Methods

3.1.1 Test-Driven Development, Acceptance Test-Driven Development, and Behavior-Driven Development

3.1.2 The Test Pyramid

3.1.3 Testing Quadrants, Test Levels, and Testing Types

3.1.4 The Role of a Tester

3.2 Assessing Quality Risks and Estimating Test Effort

3.2.1 Assessing Quality Risks in Agile Projects

3.2.2 Estimating Testing Effort Based on Content and Risk

3.3 Techniques in Agile Projects

3.3.1 Acceptance Criteria, Adequate Coverage, and Other Information for Testing

3.3.2 Applying Acceptance Test-Driven Development

3.3.3 Functional and Non-Functional Black Box Test Design

3.3.4 Exploratory Testing and Agile Testing

3.4 Tools in Agile Projects

3.4.1 Task Management and Tracking Tools

3.4.2 Communication and Information Sharing Tools

3.4.3 Software Build and Distribution Tools

3.4.4 Configuration Management Tools

3.4.5 Test Design, Implementation, and Execution Tools

3.4.6 Cloud Computing and Virtualization Tools

4. Agile Retrospectives in depth

4.1 Spotify Health check

5. User Story Workshop

5.1 Product visioning.

5.2 Overview of agile requirements and why they are different than traditional requirements.

5.3 Practice writing and refining user stories (via several hands-on user-story-writing exercises).

5.4 Users and user roles.

5.5 Personas.

5.6 Story-writing techniques.

5.7 Techniques for gathering user stories.

5.8 The six attributes of a good story and how to achieve them.

5.9 How much work to do up-front and how much to do just-in-time.