Syllabus - Agile Software Development (CD604 (B))

Fundamentals of Agile Process

Introduction and background, Agile Manifesto and Principles, Stakeholders and Challenges, Overview of Agile Development Models: Scrum, Extreme Programming, Feature Driven Development, Crystal, Kanban, and Lean Software Development.

Agile Projects: Planning for Agile Teams

Scrum Teams, XP Teams, General Agile Teams, Team Distribution; Agile Project Lifecycles: Typical Agile Project Lifecycles, Phase Activities, Product Vision, Release Planning: Creating the Product Backlog, User Stories, Prioritizing and Estimating, Creating the Release Plan; Monitoring and Adapting: Managing Risks and Issues, Retrospectives.

Introduction to Scrum

Agile Scrum Framework, Scrum Artifacts, Meetings, Activities and Roles, Scrum Team Simulation, Scrum Planning Principles, Product and Release Planning, Sprinting: Planning, Execution, Review and Retrospective; User story definition and Characteristics, Acceptance tests and Verifying stories, Burn down chart, Daily scrum, Scrum Case Study.

Introduction to Extreme Programming (XP)

XP Lifecycle, The XP Team, XP Concepts: Refactoring, Technical Debt, Timeboxing, Stories, Velocity; Adopting XP: Pre-requisites, Challenges; Applying XP: Thinking- Pair Programming, Collaborating, Release, Planning, Development; XP Case Study.

Agile Software Design and Development

Agile design practices, Role of design Principles, Need and significance of Refactoring, Refactoring Techniques, Continuous Integration, Automated build tools, Version control; Agility and Quality Assurance: Agile Interaction Design, Agile approach to Quality Assurance, Test Driven Development, Pair programming: Issues and Challenges.