Delve into Agile methodologies, compare them with Waterfall, explore planning techniques, and discover tools like SCRUM and Kanban. Gain insights into solving common problems with Agile.

This course is designed to help learners build an understanding of Agile’s process model and its different approaches and techniques.

To understand the advantages of implementing Agile techniques, the course begins with a comparison of Agile methods and the traditional Waterfall model. Then, you’ll get to know about different planning approaches to help users effectively adjust deadlines. Next, there’s a discussion on backlogs and different visual techniques, such as burn-down charts and burn-up charts, that help increase the efficiency of projects.

You will also learn Agile methodologies including SCRUM, eXtreme Programming, DSDM, Smart and Kanban, as well as the differences and similarities between these approaches. Finally, you’ll look at some common problems and learn ways to solve them using Agile methodologies.

Learn Agile Methodologies from Scratch

# What’s this course about?

This course mainly discusses the Agile process model and its different approaches and techniques. We’ll begin with a comparison of the Waterfall model and the Agile model. After that, we’ll look at the structure of the iterations in the Agile model and how we can start and evaluate an iteration. After that, we’ll learn how to collaborate in teams, conduct daily stand-ups, and conduct workshops in distributed teams.

In the second half of the course, we’ll learn about the different stakeholders that are involved and how we can test and refactor using the Agile process model. We then discuss different units of work along with some user stories. Later on, we’ll look at the estimations of Agile projects and how we can give appropriate estimations in terms of steps, hours, and points.

Furthermore, we’ll discuss different planning approaches so that we can adjust our deadlines efficiently. Then, we’ll learn how to measure the progress of work done by looking at backlogs and using different visual techniques, like burn-down charts and burn-up charts.  

We’ll analyze how we can move any organization to the Agile process model from other traditional process models by learning different approaches to the Agile process model like Extreme Programming, SCRUM, DSDM, Smart, and Kanban. Lastly, we’ll examine the issues that arise during conversion from traditional models to Agile models, and their solutions.

There will be some case studies at the end of this course that will help test our concepts.

# Intended audience

This course is for anyone who wants to learn and understand different Agile processes. However, project managers can enhance their existing set of skills, since there is a discussion on the different dashboards, which the project managers can use to track employee performance. Developers can also learn different techniques in Agile, such as the very popular pair programming, which can help programmers easily debug any problems found during the development process.


Get an overview of the course structure and its prerequisites.

Getting Started

Why does the Waterfall Process model not work?

What is Agile?

Short Iterations in Agile

Collaboration in Teams

Collaborating Roles

Agile Requirements

Estimating

Planning

Implementing Agile

Issues in Using Agile

Choosing the Most Appropriate Process Model

Conclusion

Introduction to the Course