Professional Scrum Developer

Delivered by Equinox training partner Enhance ALM, the 'Professional Scrum Developer' course is a unique and intensive five-day experience for software developers. The course guides teams on how to turn product requirements into potentially shippable increments of software using the Scrum framework, Visual Studio 2010, and modern software engineering practices. Attendees will work in self-organizing, selfmanaging teams using a common instance of Team Foundation Server 2010. Scrum will be experienced through a combination of lecture, demonstration, discussion, and hands-on exercises. Attendees will learn how to do Scrum correctly while being coached and critiqued by the instructor.

Also visit scrum.org for more information about the Professional Scrum Developer course and the Scrum assessment.

Duration

5 Days

Course Objectives

Following the completion of this course, students will be able to:

Understand fundamentals of scrum
Implement Scrum within Visual Studio 2010
Create automated builds
Handle software hotfixes
Plan releases and sprints
Manage product and sprint backlogs
Run retrospectives
Manage the emergent architecture
Use Test Driven Development
Setup continuous integration
Use .NET and T-SQL refactoring
Build, deploy, and test SQL Server databases
Create test plans and cases
Create and run manual tests
Setup a branching strategy

Audience

This course is suitable for any member of a Microsoft software development team:

Architects
Developers
Database Developers
Software Testers

Ideally, your actual software development team will attend the training to ensure that all necessary skills are covered.

This is a unique course in that it’s technically-focused, team-based, and employs timeboxes. It demands that the members of the teams self-organize and self-manage their own work to collaboratively develop increments of software.

Course Syllabus

Scrumdamentals

Scrum overview
Roles, timeboxes, artefacts

Implementing Scrum in Visual Studio 2010

Mapping Scrum to Visual Studio 2010
Scrum work items

The Case Study

Introduction to the case study
Define “done”

Hotfix

Architecture Explorer
Unit tests
Find, fix, validate, close the bug

Planning

Release planning
Product Backlog prioritization
Sprint planning
Sprint Backlog

At this point the team will have the knowledge of Scrum, Visual Studio 2010, and the case study application to begin developing increments of potentially shippable functionality that meet their definition of done.

Emergent Architecture

Architecture and Scrum
Emergent architecture
Principles, patterns, and practices
Visual Studio 2010 modeling tools
SPRINT 1

Test Driven Development

Continuous integration
Team Foundation Build
Test Driven Development (TDD)
Refactoring & Test Impact Analysis
SPRINT 2

Agile Database Development

Agile database development
Visual Studio database projects
Schema, scripts, building, deploying
SPRINT 3

Ship It

Acceptance criteria
Testing in Visual Studio 2010
Manual tests and branching
SPRINT 4

Overcoming Dysfunction

Scrum-butts and flaccid Scrum
Best practices working as a team
Scrum challenges

Scrum FAQ (optional)

Scrum FAQs
Professional Scrum Developer FAQs

Scrum Assessment (optional)

Time and environment permitting, the instructor may give the students time during class to take the respective Scrum.org Assessment so that the students can leave class potentially certified!