Agile Values and Scrum

Agile Values

An exploration of the values that drive agile frameworks like  Scrum, including but not limited to the following concepts:

• Simplicity, communication, and feedback
• Individuals and interactions over process and tools
• Working software over comprehensive documentation  ␣ Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• Responding to change over following a plan

Scrum

Study of Scrum principles and practices, including but not  limited to the following key concepts:

• Scrum roles, activities, artifacts
• Working with a product backlog and a sprint backlog
• Working in sprints
• Defining done
• Removing impediments and process dysfunctions

Agile Engineering

Architecture and Design

Study of architecture and design, focusing primarily on the  principles that better enable testability and ease refactoring

• Principles of architecture in an agile environment
• Design practices on an agile team
• Principles that enable testability and ease refactoring

Collaboration

An in-depth look at the way agile teams work together. This might include, but is not limited to, the following concepts:

• Working together as one team
• Including the customer in the process
• Pair programming

Test Driven Development

Study of test-first development, including but not limited to the following concepts:

• Test driven development (TDD) as a design approach
• Red-green-refactor cycle
• Unit testing principles and practices
• What makes good tests/measuring test effectiveness

Refactoring

An introduction to the practice of refactoring, including but not limited to the following concepts:

• When to refactor
• Refactoring for maintainability
• Refactoring to patterns  

Continuous Integration

An introduction to the key practices of continuous integration, including but not limited to the following:

• Single command build
• Creating builds that are automated, self-testing, and fast
• The importance of a single source repository
• Increasing visibility & automating deployment