Course

Unit 1

Introduction to Agile Methods and Product Development: Introduction to Agile – Agile values and principles, Agile vs. traditional development models, Overview of Agile Manifesto, user stories & User-Centric Design (Using Lean Canvas) – Writing effective user stories, Introduction to User-Centric Design, Using Lean Canvas for product strategy, Product Visioning – Techniques to define product vision.

Unit 2

Agile Frameworks and Software Development Practices: Scrum Framework – Scrum processes: sprints, sprint planning, sprint review, and retrospectives, Scrum roles – Product Owner, Scrum Master, Development Team, Key Scrum artifacts – Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, and Increment, Agile Architecture and Design – Agile approach to software architecture, Prototypes and wireframes in agile, Agile architecture practices – evolving design, emergent architecture, Pair Programming & Refactoring – Principles and benefits, Continuous code refactoring and technical debt management.

Unit 3

Advanced Agile Practices and Scaling Agile: Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) & Feature -Driven Development (FDD), overview, planning by feature, building by feature, Crystal, Agile Unified Process (AUP), Open Unified Process (OUP), Crystal methodologies and their characteristics – Understanding AUP and OUP as lightweight agile methodologies, Agile Quality Management, Agile testing approaches (TDD, BDD, ATDD), Agile planning, technical practices, and standards, Continuous Delivery & DevOps – Continuous integration, delivery, and deployment, DevOps practices in an Agile environment, Scaled Agile Frameworks – Introduction to scaling agile (SAFe, LeSS, Nexus), Challenges and best practices in scaling agile to large teams.

Course Objectives

• To understand agile development processes and the principles behind the Agile Manifesto
• To understand when to use agile methodologies (and when not to) and how to tailor agile practices
• To gain hands-on skills and experience applying Agile Values and Principles

Course Outcomes

At the end of the course, the student should be able to

• CO1: understand the practices and philosophies of agile methods and Scrum framework
• CO2: apply Scrum, Extreme Programming and a tradeoffs in selecting a software engineering method
• CO3: apply critical thinking in analyzing a software engineering method
• CO4: design an agile method to the needs of the project.

CO-PO Mapping

*PSO2 only for CCE

Textbook(s)

1. Agile Development with Scrum, Ken Schwaber & Mike Beedle, Prentice Hall, 2001
2. Integrating Agile Development in the Real World, Peter Schuh, Charles River Media, 2005

References(s)

1. Agile Software Development – The Cooperative Game (2nd Edition), Alistair Cockburn, 2007
2. Succeeding With Agile, Software Development Using Scrum, Mike Cohn, Addison Wesley, 2010