Agile Foundations & Azure DevOps takes our most popular Agile training courses for Agile teams and incorporates one of the most popular Agile tools: Azure DevOps If your are new to Agile and need to know the basics or need to enhance your knowledge or build hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure DevOps (formally Team Foundation Server-TFS ), this course is for you.
Participants are given a comprehensive overview of the Agile essentials and learn about the different Agile frameworks: Lean, Scrum, XP, and Kanban. This course emphasizes practical agile principles and focuses on demonstrating how Agile can be integrated into real projects with real tools – Azure DevOps. Our workshop uses a variety of unique hand-on teaching tools including hands on demonstration, participant lead instruction, videos, games and a whole lot of fun.
Agile Foundations & Azure DevOps takes one of your projects and walks it through the Agile lifecycle and Azure DevOps tool process. At the completion of this class you will not only have a strong Agile background but an actual working product backlog.
Learning Objectives:
- Agile introduction
- Agile roles and responsibilities
- Scrum Master
- Product Owner
- Development Team
- Management
- Agile, Lean, Scrum, XP, and Kanban frameworks
- Agile lifecycle overview
- Azure DevOps: Set-up, administration, and templates
- Effective story writing and estimation
- Writing Stories and Acceptance Criteria (BDD)
- Azure DevOps: Work Items (Epics, Features, User Stories, Bugs, Tasks)
- Managing and Organizing Work Items with Areas & Tags
- Test Management
- Azure DevOps Extension: Test Plans
- Azure DevOps Extension: Test & Feedback
- Release Planning
- Azure DevOps: Plans, Capacity Planning, Boards
- Agile Execution (Grooming, Iteration Planning, Daily Stand-ups)
- Azure DevOps: Dashboards
- Azure DevOps: Customizing boards
- Tracking progress through metrics
- Azure DevOps: Burn-down charts
- Azure DevOps: Custom Queries & Reports
- Azure DevOps Extension: Microsoft Analytics
- Best practices for closing an iteration (Demos and Retrospectives)
Who Should Attend:
- Team Members
- ScrumMasters
- Product Owners
- Developers
- Testers
- Business Analysts
- Agile Project Managers
- Managers, Stakeholders