Agile Methodologies in Indian Context

This 2 days course enables organizations to become agile and provides detailed understanding on agile principles, values, various agile methodologies etc. It also provides guidelines on the how to implement/deploy agile practices and overcome existing cultural barriers, if any.

Objectives / Benefits
  • To provide an overview of agile history, values, principles and have detailed discussion on most applied agile methodologies, XP and Scrum
  • To equip participants with user stories, estimation, planning poker, estimation, project management, project tracking, metrics, and self managed team
  • To have a discussion on how the specific organization will change and the issues that concern them in implementing agile
  • To discuss some of the specific customizations needed in Indian context
  • To provide a brief comparison with industry frameworks, like, CMMi, ISO, Lean etc

Duration
2 days

Course Outline
Day 1
  • Ice breaking and workshop norms (15 min)
  • Agile overview (1.5 hours)
    • An Introduction to business results
    • History of iterative and incremental development process
    • Agile manifesto (Values)
    • Agile principles
  • Case study presentation (15 min)
  • Agility with XP practices and exercises (3 hours)
    • Agile Requirements and User Stories
    • Pair Programming
    • Test Driven Development
    • Refactoring
    • Collective Ownership
    • Case Studies / Exercises on all above
  • Agile estimation and planning (1.5 hours)
  • Agile project tracking and agile metrics (1 hour)
Day 2
  • Agility with Scrum (3.5 hours)
    • Scrum life cycle
    • Self-organizing team roles and responsibilities
    • Sprint planning meeting, Daily stand up meeting
    • Sprint demo and retrospective
    • Role play: Agile roles
  • Overview of other Agile methodologies - Crystal, UP, TDD, Evo (30 min)
  • Agility in Indian Context (2 hours)
    • Challenges for Agile adoption in Indian context
    • Specific Customizations in Indian context
  • Comparison with other industry frameworks, like, CMMi v1.2, ISO, Lean etc (30 min)
  • Quick recap and take away practices (15 min)
  • Discussion on the way to implement practices in your organization (1 hour)

Who Should Attend?
  • Senior and Middle Management in Delivery, Process, Quality and Testing Teams; Senior managers in HR, Operations, other Support functions
  • Project leaders, Test leads, Team leads, Developers, Sr. Developers and Testers etc

Trainer Profile
The trainer is Mr. Hariprakash Agrawal, MTech from IIT-KGP and an Agile Coach. His profile can be accessed from our experts page on this website and in LinkedIn.


How to Register?
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