Overview

DURATION: 2 Days

Orange & Bronze is primarily a software development firm. Our very survival depends on successful delivery of projects. Our approach to Agile training is therefore pragmatic, not theoretical. It is not just a discussion of one methodology or another, but an analysis of why projects succeed or fail, and which practices can address specific issues. We go beyond what is written in books and articles, and bring in our own experience. What we found out by applying Agile Software Development since 2005 is that many things written in books are not always applicable in the real world, and we bring this insight to our training.

During the class, we try to understand your organization's specific issues and pain points, and share the various approaches that we or our clients have tried to address similar situations. More than just giving you technical knowledge, we try to arm you with specific action items that you can immediately apply to your organization.

Who Should Attend:

Developers, Managers, Product Owners, Testers, Business Analysts and Executives

Benefits of the Program:

• Understanding the factors that determine project success or failure.
• Gaining a wide view of the methodologies and practices available in Agile, and to which situation each is applicable.
• Shared understanding within the organization of the challenges and expectation of each role.
• Shared perspective when addressing process improvements.

Course Outline:

Day 1-2 : Core Agile Workshop with Scrum, Extreme Programming, and Kanban

• Why projects fail
• Major Agile methodologies
• Roles & Teams
• Requirements
• Estimation & Planning
• Iterative Development
• "Fixed-Scope" Projects
• Kanban
• Agile Engineering

Related Courses

• Agile Requirements, Estimation & Planning
• Agile Engineering and Java Best Practices

Overview

DURATION: 2 Days

This 2-day workshop provides a hands-on simulation on effective requirements elicitation practices, inclusive of having effective discussions with stakeholders, translating vague business needs into specifications, writing of user stories & acceptance criteria, eliciting priorities & test cases, as well as basic Agile approaches to estimation and planning.

User stories help us manage requirements. It may seem easy at first. Following a "As a user, I want…" template seems easy enough. But how do you know if it is an effective user story? Does it need to be split or combined? What about the details? How do we know if the story is done? What about estimating and planning? This workshop aims to immerse participants in the entire lifecycle, from initial project vision, to user roles, and to the first iteration and release.

Prerequisite:

Knowledge of agile software development is a plus (but not required)

Who Should Attend:

Business analysts, developers, testers, product owners, scrum masters, and team leads, looking to apply user stories in their Agile software development.

Benefits of the Program:

From this workshop, trainees will learn:

• How Agile values affect requirements engineering
• How to identify and describe user roles
• How to write and evaluate user stories
• How to estimate and prioritize for iterations and releases
• How to split and/or combine user stories
• How to write effective acceptance criteria and tests for user stories
• Capture non-functional requirements as stories
• Derive tests from User Stories

Orange & Bronze is one of the first companies in Asia to use and advocate Agile Software Development, and has been using it since our inception in 2005, back when Agile was still an emerging movement. This training course was developed and is taught by some of the Philippines' well-known and respected Agile coaches and practitioners, and uses the format trusted by some of the best companies in the Philippines.

Course Outline:

Day 1-2 : Agile Requirements, Estimation, and Planning

• Overview of Agile Software Development
• What and Why of User Stories
• User Story Lifecycle
• User Roles
• INVEST
• Estimating and Planning
• Introduction to Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD)
• 3 Case Studies/Simulations

Related Courses

• Core Agile Workshop with Scrum, Extreme Programming, and Kanban

Overview

DURATION: 2 Days

As Martin Fowler wrote in his famous blog post, "Flaccid Scrum", many Agile Software Development efforts fail, because they do not adopt Agile Engineering practices, which are not covered by the Scrum methodology. Agile Engineering practices allow teams to accommodate frequent changes, while still delivering code that is low in bugs, and deployable at the end of each sprint.

This course goes beyond an academic discussion of Object-Oriented Design and goes into a deep discussion of its effects on practical software engineering concerns such as maintainability, testability and reuse. The course then proceeds to discuss critical Java best practices which affect performance and correctness. This is followed by a discussion on modern software engineering approaches of Test-Driven Development and Refactoring, which improve the quality and maintainability of the codebase.

Students are provided with numerous hands-on exercises, the most challenging of which is the final team machine problem, which includes changes to requirements mid-way!

The course culminates in a Code Review, where students present their solutions to the final machine problem to the class, for review and critique by the instructor as well as by the entire class on the basis of Object-Oriented Design principles and Java Best Practices. This activity has been effective in drilling-in proper practices and approaches to the students.

Prerequisite:

Trainees must be familiar with Core Java & Commonly-Used Libraries.

Course Outline:

Day 1-5 : Agile Engineering & Java Best Practices

• Agile Engineering Overview
• Review of Object-Oriented Programming
• Object-Oriented Design
• Version Control w/ Git
• Unit Testing and Test Driven Development
• Refactoring
• Java Best Practices
• Machine Problem
• Code Review

Overview

DURATION: 3 Days

Design Patterns are recurring software design solutions that can be used to improve new or existing applications. The course teaches both the foundational (aka Gang of Four or GoF) design patterns as well as the Enterprise Application design patterns which focus on building enterprise applications, covering such topics as designing web components, business logic, and persistence.

This training course was developed and is taught by some of the Philippines' well-known and respected Java software engineers and architects, and uses the format trusted by some of the best companies in the Philippines.

Prerequisite:

Basic programming knowledge of an object-oriented language. All exercises in this course are written in Java, so participants should be familiar with Core Java & Commonly-Used Libraries.

Benefits of the Program:

Learn established solutions to common problems. Don't reinvent the wheel. Arm your team with a language for describing design concepts and improve productivity. Trainees are able to apply their learning via case studies, which are reviewed and critiqued by industry experts. The course is applicable to any object-oriented programming language.