Agility

• Why Agility? New needs, motivations, culture, principles, what are the benefits?
• The Agile Manifesto and the 12 principles.
• Its fields of application.

The Scrum Guide

• Scrum theory: empirical process, pillars, Scrum values.
• Roles: the Scrum team, the Product Owner, the Scrum Master, the development team.
• Artifacts: Increment, Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Definition of Done.
• Global view of the events and presentation of the Sprint concept.
• Events: Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective.
• How the different roles and Scrum Master interact with the organization.
• Best practices: estimation and velocity, techniques, User Story, tracking and information radiators.

Agile development techniques

• Starting point: The Product Backlog.
• Pair programming, refactoring.
• The importance of development standards within a team (technical debt and basic rules).
• Handling bugs (bug report, life cycle).
• Measurements.
• Architecture, design patterns, and cross-cutting concerns.

Agile testing techniques

• The classification of tests: Structural, functional, unit, integration, validation, acceptance.
• Testing before coding, TDD: Principles and benefits.
• Behavior-Driven Development, or BDD.
• Acceptance testing, ATDD.

Continuous integration and automation

• Concepts and benefits.
• Implementation and recommendations.
• Configuration management: Concepts, processes, branch diagram.
• Configuration management: Centralized, decentralized.
• Configuration management: Check-out and commit.
• Configuration management: Baseline and changes.
• Configuration management: Merge.

Infrastructure and tools

• Overview.
• Tools - Development environment.
• ALM - Application Lifecycle Management.
• Tools - Unit tests.
• Tools - DB.
• Tools - Continuous Integration.

Exam

• Tips for the exam.
• Mock exam with commented correction.