Certified Scrum Developer® (CSD®) Certification - Scrum Alliance®

Host: Rob Myers

Principal Agile Instructor & Coach

This three-day agile engineering training provides participants with the technical skills necessary to write better code with fewer defects and respond quickly to changing requirements. You'll learn to use a deliberate and disciplined approach to tackle any development challenge and produce reliable, robust, verifiable applications. The workshop will leave you better prepared to respond to tomorrow’s changes, and anchors the Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) designation by the Scrum Alliance.

This is a hands-on agile engineering workshop, so get ready to roll up your sleeves and code! Participants will work in pairs on laptops configured with the tools necessary to support Agile delivery as we incrementally and iteratively build a simple, yet fully functional working application. The project will adhere to Scrum techniques, leading out with a Discovery/Planning session, with each day being broken into mini-sprints, interspersed with topic discussions/demonstrations of the various engineering practices that are duly reinforced with vigorous hands-on coding exercises.

What is this course about?

This immersive course is designed to deliver the fundamentals of Agile development, providing you with the knowledge and practical skills to plan, estimate, track and control an Agile product development You gain a solid foundation in the values and principles of the Agile Manifesto as well as an introduction to the principles of Lean. You learn the key rules and practices of Scrum, Kanban and eXtreme Programming (XP) so that you fully understand their commonalities and differences, and are able to make informed choices about which approach is most likely to fit your context. Above all, you will learn the changes in culture and mindset that are at the heart of successful Agile adoption.

You Will Learn How To:

• Apply the values and principles of the Agile Model of product development
• Compare the most popular Agile approaches, including Scrum and Kanban
• Recognize the cultural and mindset challenges to being fully successful with Agile
• Create an obstinate focus on the delivery of customer value
• Grow self-organizing teams that deliver quality-assured, business-valued product frequently

Active Learning Workshop:

• Identifying barriers to Agile adoption
• Map changing roles and responsibilities in an Agile adoption
• Envisioning a product
• Prioritizing features by value
• Providing a critique of user stories
• Estimating story size using relative estimation units (story points)
• Participating in a retrospective workshop

Class Learning Objectives

1.     Learn my role on a Scrum team.
2.     Learn to clearly understand user stories.
3.     Learn to write effective unit tests.
4.     Learn to quickly and accurately break down work requirements.
5.     Learn to write high quality code and be able to evaluate code quality.
6.     Learn to work collaboratively and efficiently with the other members of my Scrum team.
7.     Learn to write small tests then write the code to pass the tests and clean up the code.
8.     Learn to create software components that are maintainable and efficient.
9.     Learn common language to use when discussing application design with other developers.
10.   Learn to clean up my new code safely.
11.   Learn to use automatic tools to refactor.
12.   Learn to verify that my code works in the system and does not break the system as often as possible.
13.   Learn to use a build system that automatically builds the system and runs all automated tests so that integrating often is as easy as possible.

Cancellation Policy:
In order for us to provide the most experienced instructors and a superior classroom environment, we must ask you to adhere to our cancellation policy. If it is necessary to cancel or reschedule this registration, please notify us immediately. Our cancellation policy is as follows:

• 11 or more business days prior to class, 100% refund of tuition.
• 1-10 business days prior to class, no refund, but may reschedule another class within one year of date of cancelled class.
• First day of class, no refund of tuition, retake policy may apply.