(FALL 2009)

Agile Development-Best Practice Industry Standards (Section 1) I&C SCI X494.78  (1.5)

This class provides a hands-on deep dive into Agile development based on proven industry practices and real-world experience. Learn how to define Agile development and Lean project management practices targeted to eliminate waste and improve development efficiency. Gain hands-on experience with Agile methodologies and discuss pragmatic approaches to adopt them in your work projects. Gain detail knowledge on Scrum, user stories, iterative and test-driven development, estimating and planning agile projects, efficient stakeholder engagement, test-automation, continuous integration, and meaningful reflection. Discuss the business rationale for transforming your development organization and define pragmatic steps to incorporate these methods efficiently into your team's activities. See how roles and responsibilities change while projects pick up speed and deliver predictable higher quality results on time. The target groups for this course are developers, testers, development and QA managers, project managers, product managers and business analysts.

Ralf Brockhaus, M.S., in Computer Science. IBM Corporation. Ralf Brockhaus has 20 years of professional software development and project management experience in a wide range of technologies, including 6 years of intensive, hands-on Microsoft .NET development. Mr. Brockhaus is currently as Release Manager for the IBM Business Process Manager and Active Content Suite. He is deeply familiar with all aspects of developing real-world software applications - including performance, scalability, security, as well as integration and migration of legacy technology. Mr. Brockhaus teaches ASP.NET, C#, XML Web Services, SharePoint, as well as Mobile Computing and is an advocate for Agile and Lean development practices.