Firebrand Training course for Scrum.org Professional Scrum Developer™ (PSD)

Firebrand Training will help you to prepare for the official Scrum.org Scrum Developer™ (PSD) .NET exam.

Attaining the Scrum Developer (PSD) .NET certification will enhance a Scrum Development Team's productivity and efficiency.

This course teaches you software development using Scrum and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools. You'll learn how to create useful tools, and how to:

• Form effective teams
• Explore and understand “Brownfield” architecture
• Define quality attributes, acceptance criteria, and “done”
• Create automated builds
• Handle software hotfixes
• Verify existence and removal of bugs
• Plan releases and sprints
• Estimate product backlog
• Create and manage a sprint backlog
• Hold a sprint review
• Use Sprint Retrospectives
• Use emergent architecture to avoid technical debt
• Use Test Driven Development
• Setup and leverage continuous integration
• Decrease testing times, using Test Impact Analysis
• Use refactoring practices
• Create and manage test plans and cases
• Create, run, record, and play back manual tests
• Setup a branching strategy and branch code
• Write more maintainable code
• Identify and eliminate people and process dysfunctions
• Inspect and improve your team’s software development process

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The three areas of knowledge that you'll learn on Firebrand's course:

• Scrum - practice being part of a Scrum team, and see the core concepts in action. This will help you to practice self-organisation, and how to identify and overcome common Scrum team problems
• Tools - this course is based on Visual Studio 2010, using either the Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 template or MSF/Agile process template
• Best practices:
• Coding - test-driven development, continuous integration and refactoring
• Architecture - emergent architecture and evolutionary database development
• Release management - planning, requirements definition, and shipment
• Quality assurance - defining "done", pair programming, version control and acceptance testing.

On this Firebrand course, you'll learn:

Module 1: Introduction

• Scrum and the PSD
• Agenda
• Logistics
• Team formation
• Review and Retrospective

Module 2: Visual Studio Scrum

• Mapping Scrum to Visual Studio 2010
• Comparing MSF/Agile and Visual Studio Scrum
• Product Backlog Item work item type
• Task work item type
• Bug work item type
• Test Case work item type
• Queries and Reports
• Supporting common Scrum activities
• Demonstration and simulation
• Review and Retrospective

Module 3: Case Study

• Introduction to the case study
• Downloading the source code, build, and exploring the application
• Defining the product’s quality attributes
• Defining “done”
• Filing effective bug reports
• In-Sprint vs. Out-of-Sprint bugs
• Using Architecture Explorer to visualise and explore
• Review and Retrospective

Module 4: Planning

• Release planning
• Grooming the Product Backlog
• Product Backlog items estimation
• Acceptance criteria
• Spring Backlog
• Review and Retrospective

Module 5: Emergent Architecture

• Architecture and Scrum
• Emergent architecture
• Principles, patterns, and practices
• Visual Studio 2010 modelling tools
• UML and layer diagrams
• SPRINT 1
• Review and Retrospective

Module 6: Test-Driven Development

• What is a unit test and why we care
• Continuous Integration (CI) using Team Foundation Build
• Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Covering Code, Re-factoring, and Test Impact Analysis
• SPRINT 2
• Review and Retrospective

Module 7: Ship It

• Acceptance testing in Visual Studio 2010
• Microsoft Test Manager
• Test case management
• Maintaining tests
• Branching and merging
• SPRINT 3
• Review and Retrospective

Module 8: Overcoming Dysfunction

• Becoming a high-performing development team
• Development team challenges and how to overcome them
• Flaccid Scrum and ScrumButs
• Inspecting, adapting, and being transparent
• Working with challenging Scrum Masters
• Working with challenging Product Owners and Stakeholders
• Course Review and Retrospective

Included:

• Firebrand's own Scrum .NET courseware

You'll sit the following exam:

• Professional Scrum Developer I .NET

This assessment tests your knowledge on software development, using Scrum on Visual Studio 2010.

This course is suitable for any member of a software development team. You may be a programmer, architect, database developer, tester etc. Product owners, Scrum Masters, and other stakeholders are welcome too.