The Fraunhofer Center Maryland (FC-MD) invites you to attend this course, which will help you understand the principles and practices of agile methods. The course content will allow you to evaluate whether your organization would benefit from using agile principles and practices, and understand how to implement these principles and practices in your organization.

Objective:

Many organizations are looking for alternatives to traditional software development methodologies that they find too cumbersome, bureaucratic, and inflexible.

Agile methods address this problem. They are designed to help software projects reach a higher level of agility, notice needed changes early, initiate action promptly, create feasible and effective alternative plans quickly, and reorient work and resources quickly and effectively.

This training provides insights into the principles and practices that can help projects and organizations to be more agile.

The goal of the training is to give the participants enough understanding of the benefits and drawbacks of agile methods that they can make a decision on whether to adopt agile methods fully, partly, or not at all in their organization. In order to support that decision, the training also facilitates a discussion of how the practices would be implemented in the participants' organizations.

This 4 hour Agile Methods Workshop targets developers, technical leaders, project managers, configuration management analysts, and process personnel. It includes training material such as presentation slides, articles/handouts, templates/examples, and references.

Training Topics:

• Overview of Agile Methodologies, principles and practices
• Discussion of lessons learned and problems to be aware of when implementing agile techniques and managing an agile project
• "The Agile Hour", an experience-based lab exercise
• A facilitated session to discuss how Agile techniques could be implemented in the participants’ organizations

Organizers :

Instructor: The training will be delivered by two instructors with extensive software development experience including implementing and conducting research in Agile methods .

Hosting organization: FC-MD is a not-for-profit affiliate of the University of Maryland’s Computer Science Department in College Park. Founded in 1998, FC-MD helps organizations improve their software business through process improvement initiatives. FC-MD works closely with renowned national and international partners to apply empirical thinking to real-world software contexts.

More Information

We will soon have a public offering of this workshop in our offices in College Park. Currently, we offer this workshop in your organization or in our offices upon request and we can tailor the training and discussions for your environment. For registration or further information please send an email to: training@fc-md.umd.edu or call 301-403-8972.

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