In this twenty-five-hour, hands-on software developer training course, you’ll build key developer skills from Agile and Extreme Programming (XP), enabling you to build higher-quality software more rapidly and with fewer defects.
You’ll master core developer practices such as BDD, TDD, refactoring, and emergent design by applying these practices to a software development project where you and your teammates will build the core of an application program together. During this exercise, you’ll experience how writing the test first guides you in creating testable designs and catches mistakes before you even recognize them as bugs. You’ll also discover and code design patterns as part of building this application. Programming labs can be done in Java or C Sharp.
This class also includes five lectures on advanced developer practices, including writing the test first, creating code quality, developer practices, advanced testing techniques, doing emergent design, and cleaning up legacy code. By the end of this class, you will have applied the principles and practices of Extreme Programming to build a software development project that would normally take several weeks to complete in a fraction of the time. This class can be delivered in-person or online in two-and-a-half full-day or five half-day sessions.
This hands-on Advanced Certified Scrum Developer (A-CSD) course will give you experience of building software incrementally and emerging designs on a Scrum development team that will enable you to:
Master expert techniques for doing analysis and design
Apply simple strategies for refactoring legacy code
Identify code qualities that improve maintainability
Experience emerging designs using test-first development
Understand how to use test-first development to drive design
Efficiently use TDD’s red-green-refactor cycle
Work effectively to refactor legacy code
Exercise techniques to test untestable code
Collaborate successfully with pair programming
Avoid upfront overdesign and practice just-in-time development
Write software that supports an iterative process without excessive rework
Support collaborative code ownership and embrace a common aesthetic
Refactor to patterns and emerge designs in iterative development
Implement techniques for recognizing and managing technical debt
Recognize how test-driven development informs design decisions
Who Should Take This Course?
This training is for all technical team members and has the greatest impact when the entire technical team can attend. This course will benefit architects; designers; developers; development managers; product managers; software engineers/programmers; testers; technical analysts; technical leads; and QA engineers.
This course includes twenty hours of programming labs in Java or C Sharp. Non-technical team members are welcome to attend. However, only those who participate in the programming exercises and fulfill the additional training requirements are eligible to become Advanced Certified Scrum Developers.
Agenda
Session 1: Test-First
Lecture: Test-First Development
Lab 1: Setting Up
Session 2: Techniques
Lecture: CREATE Code Quality
Lab 2: Writing the Test First
Session 3: Practices
Lecture: Development Practices
Lab 3: Varying Behavior
Session 4: Testing
Lecture: Testing Techniques
Lab 4: Optional Behaviors
Session 5: Refactoring
Lecture: Emergent Design
Lab 5: Mocks and Shunts
Optional Session 6: Lab Catch-Up
This session is in case you need additional time to finish the labs
Your Instructor
My continuing passion for software design and construction has led me to train more than 10,000 professional software developers for clients that have included Fortune 500 firms such as Microsoft, IBM, Yahoo, Boeing, AT&T, Sprint, Medtronic, SunGard, State Farm, Vanguard, and Weyerhaeuser. As a longtime IBM consultant, I trained software engineers around the globe, giving them the skills to write the next generation of applications and operating system software while earning one of the highest satisfaction ratings in the history of IBM education. Since 2006, I’ve devoted my consulting practice to providing organizations with technical training and coaching for software developers and teams transitioning to Agile, Scrum, and Extreme Programming practices.
Praise for David’s Training
“This was a great class! First, David distills a vast amount of Agile-related information into successful practices with direct application in our work. Second, the hands-on labs get us over the learning hurdles of TDD implementation as quickly as humanly possible. Lastly, David is clearly passionate in his concern with the overall condition of code quality in the software industry. He will go to no end with his class, we voted to do two fourteen-hour days to get the lab knowledge and David supported us and stayed with us the whole time. Thank you!
—Mike Jassmann, IT Manager
“Not knowing what the latest tools to use or books to read, this class allowed us to understand the latest practices and tools and how to apply them in our current working environment.”
—Doug Parris, Senior Software Engineer
“This is a great class that will start you on the path to becoming a great programmer and an invaluable asset to your company.”
—Vincent Quiles, Programmer Analyst
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