This immersive software developer training program contains a set of two courses that provides the skills needed to become a successful software developer and a valuable member of a development team. It can be delivered online or in-person in ten half-day sessions or five full-day sessions.
In our first training course, Software Developer Essentials, we’ll explore Extreme Programming practices and how they support faster and simpler software development. We’ll then take a deep dive into Agile design and discover a core set of design patterns that every developer should be familiar with, along with essential design principles and practices.
You’ll be taken on a guided tour through essential developer practices, such as story writing, iteration planning, pair programming, test-driven development, and refactoring. You’ll learn how to discover patterns in problems and implement designs as needed. You’ll also explore the principles behind the practices, so you understand how to use them to make the best design choices. You’ll gain a powerful framework for encapsulating and abstracting virtually any problem for maximum flexibility without over-complicating the solution. By exploring the secrets of high-performing, cross-functional development teams, you’ll gain a shared design vocabulary for dramatically improving inter-team communication that can be applied equally well to new development and to maintaining or extending existing systems.
The training program concludes with the course Advanced Developer Essentials providing twenty hours of hands-on programming labs and five hours of additional advanced instruction. In this advanced, hands-on class, you’ll learn how to write higher-quality code more quickly and with fewer defects using practices from Extreme Programming (XP) that include test-first development, refactoring, and emergent design, as well as use a variety of Agile problem-solving techniques and approaches to build a full application program.
You’ll then put theory into practice and apply your new skills by building the core of an application using the expert-level techniques you’ve learned for rapidly writing quality software. By the end of this training program, you’ll be armed with several new, effective tools and techniques for effective software development that will make your code more robust, manageable, and easier to extend in the future.
This Software Developer Essentials training course is for all software development team members and has the greatest impact when the entire team attends. This courses will benefit Architects, DBAs, Designers, Developers, Development Managers, Directors, Product Managers, Programmers, QA Engineers, Software Engineers, Technical Analysts, Technical Leads, Technical Writers, and Testers. Familiarity with basic Object-Oriented (OO) concepts and terminology is recommended. The Advanced Developer Essentials training course is for all technical team members and includes 20 hours of programming labs in Java or C Sharp.
Completing this week-long training will give you the knowledge and experience of using Extreme Programming practices to rapidly build quality software and enable you to:
Software Developer Essentials (SDE): Covers essential principles of Agile and Extreme Programming for software developers: Agile principles, values, and framework; story writing, collaboration, planning, coaching, and facilitation. We explore Agile principles and patterns: approaches to design, problem-solving techniques, seeing patterns by what they encapsulate, discovering patterns in problems, doing design exercises, practicing emergent design, and refactoring to patterns. Hands-on exercises include story writing and defining acceptance tests, along with a brief design exercise and review. See the full course description for Software Developer Essentials (SDE).
Advanced Developer Essentials (ADE): Covers essential practices from Extreme Programming an: continuous integration, pair programming, coding standards, test-first development (TDD), red-green-refactor, using TDD to inform design, code qualities, discovering design patterns, conducting code reviews, essential developer practices, writing testable code, advanced testing techniques; refactoring legacy code; emerging solutions, and much more. Includes tewnty hours of hands-on programming exercises in Java or C Sharp. See the full course description for Advanced Developer Essentials (ADE).
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, MetLife, 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 and Scrum.
“Have you ever felt the fear of starting a project, not knowing what design to start? Ever felt the fear of making a small change and having everything crash down? Take this class and learn a better way to live and develop without fear.”
–D.J. Hagberg, Software Architect
“Take the course. It will change how you approach software development.”
–Eric Huber, Senior Software Developer
“One of the most interesting and interactive trainings that I have ever taken part in.”
–Brandon Whitaker, Software Engineer
“Go to it! This course takes Scrum out of the conceptual and puts it into the practical.”
—Kevin Hallquist, Software Design Engineer, Certified ScrumMaster
“Take it; have your team take it together. Make time for this class.”
—Edward J. Newton, Software Development Manager, Certified ScrumMaster
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