Organizations today are seeking ways to improve the efficiency of their system and software development efforts while still meeting quality objectives. Agile brings a level of improvement to product development that increases quality, time to market, value delivery, and motivation of those involved in the process. It takes individuals out of their functional silos and puts them in self-managed and customer-focused multidisciplinary teams. This two-day comprehensive course builds your knowledge and skills in the agile approach to projects, in particular Scrum. You will learn what agile is all about, why it works, and how to effectively plan and execute projects using agile principles. You will learn the role of the project manager, product owner, and business analyst on agile projects, and how to write user stories, which are the most common method of representing requirements. You will learn techniques for building and managing a product backlog of user stories, and techniques for estimating and prioritizing requirements for releases and iterations.

The agile method Scrum will be used as a reference method during the course, but the techniques described also apply to other agile methods.