Bespoke Agile

Why Agile?

• Comparison of iterative methodologies
• Why things go wrong
• The Agile approach
• What is Scrum?
• Pigs and chickens

Product owner

• The customer representative
• Prioritizing product requirements
• Writing effective stories
• Acceptance criteria
• Negotiating sprint contents
• Group exercise to produce customer requirements and write stories based on the requirements

The sprint

• Sprint backlog
• Sprint planning: what to do
• Sprint planning how to do it
• What happens during a sprint
• Burn down charts
• Group exercise to plan a sprint

Scrum Master

• Implementing Scrum
• Ensuring proper practices
• Maintaining documentation
• Stand-up meetings
• When to pair program
• Group exercise to implement Scrum

Finishing a sprint

• Scrum review meeting
• Scrum retrospective meeting
• Releasing an iteration
• Group exercise the review a sprint

Is Agile and Scrum for you?

• Review of the Scrum process
• Comparison with other methodologies
• Benefits of pair programming
• Group exercise to discuss which aspects of Agile and Scrum can be applied to attendees organisations

Scrum Product Owner

• How to be an effective Product Owner
• The Duties, Rights, Privileges
• The Promoting self-organizing teams
• How to Write User-Stories (Agile requirements)
• Establishing and Knowing your stakeholders
• Looking at Planning for quality
• Addressing Story points
• Discovering the Business value
• How to manage an Agile product throughout the Software Development Life Cycle

Using Azure DevOps

• Managing Scrum Project on Azure Board
• Using Azure Pipelines for CI/CD
• Managing code on Azure repos