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Leading Agile teams - planning
Understand and apply Agile techniques in planning and estimation
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3.5 total hours 
english
Online - Self Paced
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About Leading Agile teams - planning
A career in software needs more than coding skills. The ability to lead modern development teams means having an in-depth understanding of software development approaches. A key skill set is knowing how to plan and manage work in Agile teams.
Jay has 20+ years of experience in leading teams from small companies to multinationals. These have ranged from classical program management to crossfunctional agile development. Through all of these roles there has been a consistent need to manage work with effective planning.
In this course, Jay demystifies Agile planning, covering key techniques such as:
Estimation Poker for collaborative estimation
Organise Iteration (Sprint) planning
Controlling technical debt
Tracking tools
Story points as an estimation tool
Jay covers not only the techniques but the mindset. For Agile to be successful, you need to know not only what processes to follow, but why and how those processes are used. Not just "doing Agile" but "being Agile". The concepts are explained clearly using a range of powerful analogies from Usain Bolt's running style to medieval fire building.
This course is intended for anyone working in an Agile team, especially those building plans and managing work. As well as developers, this may include Product Owners, Business Analysts or Project Managers depending on organisation. But because Agile is very team-centric, every team member needs to understand how to get involved in building and communicating
What You Will Learn?
- Agile principles and how these relate to planning.
- Planning Techniques in Agile Projects.
- Use relative estimation to understand the size of work.
- Run Estimation Poker for collaborative estimation.
- Apply techniques to control technical debt.
- Organise Iteration (Sprint) planning.
- Use burnup and burndown as tracking tools.
- Estimating and sizing tasks.