Agile Engineering Practices

This course is still being prepared and has not been finalized. We’ll be releasing it in early 2010.

Scrum is a simple framework of inspection and adaption which allows a team to produce an increment of potentially shippable product at the end of very Sprint. We have observed a large number of high performing Scrum teams, and although Scrum does prescribe engineering practices, its use guides teams to adopt the Extreme Programming (XP) practices.

It is only by adopting the XP engineering practices that teams will be able to comfortably produce high quality software that is potentially shippable at the end of every Sprint. These practices include Continuous Integration (CI), Test Driven Development (TDD), Pair Programming and Refactoring.

We have offered this course as a free service to our most valuable clients for the last few years. We’re only now introducing it to the public. In this one day course, we’ll explore each of these different practices, discuss the benefits that they offer and examine how they are used by highly productive teams. We’ll also look at the different tools and frameworks available.