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Agile Programming: Principles and Practices for Software Success

 
Course: 931   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Deliver adaptable software iterations based on Agile methodologies such as XP and Scrum
  • Minimize bugs and maximize productivity with Test-Driven Development and unit testing
  • Refactor existing code for easier maintenance and improved design
  • Achieve quality design by adopting established coding principles
  • Simplify complex coding problems with design patterns
  • Adopt best practices to successfully manage Agile projects

Course Benefits

Agile programming practices reduce development time while increasing collaboration. This ensures a final product that has been scrutinized at every stage to maintain reliability. In this course, you gain a solid foundation in Agile programming principles. Through an immersive case study, you acquire practical knowledge and skills to plan, code and implement an Agile software project using methodologies like XP and Scrum.

Who Should Attend

This course is valuable for experienced software architects, programmers and technical managers. Familiarity with object-oriented programming concepts, and competency in a modern programming language such as VB, Java or C#, is assumed.

Course Workshop

Throughout this course, experiential and PC-based activities immerse you in an authentic Agile programming project simulation. You perform critical tasks, including:
  • Meeting with customers to generate user stories
  • Estimating and prioritizing user stories
  • Attending a spike session to learn new technology
  • Writing tests and code to bring user stories to life
  • Refactoring to remove code smells for elegant design
  • Removing hacks for easier maintenance using object-oriented coding principles
  • Implementing an adaptable architecture through design patterns
  • Delivering software in frequent iterations using XP or Scrum

Related Courses

 
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Upcoming Dates

Feb 18 - 20, 2009
 Ottawa
Mar 11 - 13, 2009
 Toronto
Apr 15 - 17, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Apr 29 - May 1, 2009
 New York
Jun 17 - 19, 2009
 Ottawa
Jul 8 - 10, 2009
 Toronto
Aug 19 - 21, 2009
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)

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Agile Programming: Principles and Practices for Software Success

 
Course: 931   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days
 
 
Course 931 Content
 

Introduction and Overview

  • Adopting the best practices of the Agile Manifesto
  • Comparing traditional and Agile software methodologies
  • Identifying Agile beliefs and practices

Planning an Agile Release

Establishing the Agile project

  • Recognizing the structure of an Agile team
  • Programmers
  • Managers
  • Customers
  • Differentiating XP and Scrum

Developing a foundation with user stories

  • Eliciting application requirements
  • Capturing user stories
  • Recognizing good user stories

Estimating and "The Planning Game"

  • Distinguishing between release and iteration
  • Prioritizing and selecting user stories with the customer
  • Defining an estimation unit
  • Projecting team velocity for releases and iterations

The Agile coding process

  • Prioritizing tasks for a cohesive design
  • Write test, write code, refactor
  • Allocating time for a spike

Crafting Adaptive Software Through Test-Driven Development

Driving the design process with automated testing

  • Writing a user acceptance test
  • Getting a test to compile
  • Running tests

Integrating unit testing

  • Distinguishing between user tests and unit tests
  • Developing effective test suites
  • Achieving "green lights" through continuous testing

Optimizing test-driven development

  • Drafting a unit test that is simple, isolated and fast
  • Isolating classes for effective testing
  • Creating mock objects for testing

Refactoring for Elegant Design

Recognizing code smells

  • Conditional logic
  • Code duplication
  • Code that needs comments

Cleaning code with refactoring

  • Renaming fields and methods
  • Extracting methods and base classes
  • Programming by intention
  • Removing conditional logic

Integrating Object-Oriented Programming Principles

Adopting the best practices principles

  • Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)
  • Open/Closed Principle (OCP)
  • Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP)
  • Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP)

Evolving design from the bottom up

  • Delegating class responsibilities
  • Achieving polymorphic behavior
  • Preferring composition over inheritance

Simplifying Complex Architectural Problems Using Design Patterns

Defining design patterns

  • Creational, Structural and Behavioral patterns
  • Guaranteeing the correctness of an adaptable design

Integrating design patterns into the Agile process

  • Template Method, Adapter, Strategy, Singleton and Factory Method
  • Overriding behavior with virtual and abstract functions
  • Sharing functionality using static fields and methods

Managing to the Agile Manifesto

  • Delivering the first iteration
  • Planning the next iteration
  • Adapting Agile to fit your development methodology
 
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Agile Programming: Principles and Practices for Software Success Tuition

 
Course: 931   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

Course Tuition
$ 2,390 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,350 10-Day Pass
$ 1,670 Training Passport
$ 1,700 Premium-Pass
$ 2,200 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,155 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,124 Government Discount
 

 

Your Course Tuition Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)
  
 

Tuition Savings Plans

Training Passport
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  • Savings as much as 40%
  • Only $5,000
Premium Pass
  • 4 courses in 24 months
  • As little as $1,700 per course
  • Save as much as 45%
10-Day Pass
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  • 10 days of training for one person
  • Save as much as $990 per course
  • Only $4,500
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  • Save as much as $990 per course
  • Fully transferable
  • As low as $2,200 per course
Alumni Gold Discount Attend your first course and you'll receive a personalized Alumni Gold Discount card, entitling you to save as much as $305 on each course you take within the following 12 months. Take just one course each year and you'll be entitled to ongoing discounts...year after year!

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Unless you feel 100% satisfied that Learning Tree delivered even more than you expected, there is no fee for your course attendance. Our Guarantee of Quality lets you experience the value of the course--and then pay only if you feel the course was well worth the tuition.

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Enroll by phone or online. If your plans change, just let us know and, without a fee, you can transfer to another course or cancel your enrollment. Pay after you've taken the course, and then only if you are 100% satisfied.
 
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