Learning Objectives (LO's) - What you will learn:

• Lean, Agile, and Scrum 
  • Describe the roles and responsibilities of the Scrum team
  • Practice utilizing a sprint backlog
  • Demonstrate an effective daily Scrum
  • List the benefits of a Definition of Done and how to evolve it
• Collaboration
  • Discuss the attributes of effective teams 
  • Practice pairing and mobbing techniques through simulation
  • Use Behavior Driven Development techniques to refine PBIs
• Architecture & Design
  • Explain evolutionary architecture and how it helps agile teams
  • List principles of an agile architecture
  • Explain the design practices of agile teams
• Refactoring
  • Define technical debt and ways to effectively manage it
  • List common design patterns and their purpose
  • Identify techniques for refactoring
• Test Driven Development
  • Explain test-first development
  • List the differences between “traditional” and “agile” testing
  • Explain the importance of refactoring in the TDD cycle
  • Describe the qualities of good agile testing
• Integrating Continuously
  • Define continuous integration and list its benefits
  • Describe the advantage of building a continuous pipeline
  • List effective techniques for how teams interact with a CI pipeline

Students attending a CSD offering should expect that each LO outlined above will be covered. Students should also expect that the Scrum Foundations LOs are covered either before or during the offering. 

• This course is ideal for anyone in a development role on a Scrum Team or anyone seeking their CSD certification.