Øredev Agile Architecture RetreatThis is a two day advanced course were you will be able to go in-depth with new technology. Agile Architecture Retreat is a cooperation with Øredev and Gertrud & Cope. Øredev Retreat is a different course approach were you will breath, eat and sleep with Agile Architecture during 48 hours. We have limited the number of delegates to only 20 persons to ensure you that you will get an intimate relation to the subject.Prerequisites
You should be familiar with the vocabulary and basic practices of Scrum and / or XP. There is something in this course for project managers, product owners, developers, and testers. ScrumMasters will appreciate the "big picture" insight into how software comes together. We will work at a group pace: while we can and will accommodate the newest beginners, we guarantee that we will challenge Agile experts as well.
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AbstractMuch of Agile practice focuses on techniques that make life better for people, for the people who program: pair programming, working in small increments, re-factoring, and other fun and productive approaches close to the code. But the people at the front end of the process are people, too! More often than not, they are ambiguously mixed with the coders, anyhow. Agile practices must also focus on the front-end components, such as requirements and architecture, to afford quality of life to the team. And it's important to re-examine the customer-team relationship to make sure both sides are thriving in an Agile project."Requirements" and "architecture" are dirty words among neophyte Agilistas. Early Agile movements attempted to escape these words, fleeing to stories and metaphors. However, experience shows that such avoidance is short-sighted. Today there is a renewed interest in Agile architecture, and world-class Agile teams embrace disciplined approaches in activities that precede coding but which are fundamental to the Agile value of engaging stakeholders—all still firmly within the framework of the Agile values. In this retreat you'll be led by the world's leading experts in Agile requirements (Gertrud Bjørnvig) and architecture (Jim Coplien) as we together explore techniques that you can take home and use immediately. You'll also learn why these approaches work so you can inspect your own process and environment and adapt the techniques to your needs.
You will learn
• how to deal with the two "front end" components of software development together: user needs and architectural knowledge, using consistent tools, techniques, and approaches
• how to build a product backlog whose top items are what Jeff Sutherland calls enabling specifications, necessary for accurate estimation and for sprint success
• how to choose between representations of product backlog items
• how to combine requirements from customers and end users with domain knowledge from experts and other stakeholders, to quickly shape a system that is flexible, durable, and functional
• how to create an architecture that blends "what the system is" with "what the system does"
• how the basic tenets of object orientation foresaw exactly this vision of Agile software development
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Time and place12-14 of May, 2008 at Nöttesjö Wärdshus, 30km East of Malmö, Sweden. May 12 - 19.00 - 22.00 - Welcome dinner
May 13 - 09.00 - 17.00 - User needs and
Architectural knowledge
- 19.00 - 22.00 - Agile Architecture dinner May 14 - 09.00 - 16.00 - Architecture that blends
16.00 - 17.00 - After Course discussion
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