postgraduate in agile methods

Postgraduate in Agile Methods

Beyond the method, you will learn to transform people, teams and organizations, considering the key cultural factor, through the reference professors in Europe.

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Syllabus

Fundamentals & Inception (5 ECTS)
  • Best-known principles and methods (Scrum, Lean, Kanban and XP).
  • Facilitators and impediments.
  • Inception and agile project conceptualisation, agile prioritisation, user stories, Product Backlog development, prioritisation techniques.

Scrum and Kanban (5 ECTS)
  • Agile estimation and planning, Scrum framework, retrospectives,Kanban, agile metrics, agile physical tools, information radiators.

People and teams (5 ECTS)
  • People management, conflict management, motivation and incentives, shared facilitation, agile hiring, graphic facilitation.

Agile Product Management (5 ECTS)
  • Design thinking, Lean Start-up & Agile Product Management

Agile Engineering (5 ECTS)
  • User eXperience and prototyping in Agile.
  • ALM agile, eXtreme Programming, Software Craftsmanship, agile testing.
  • BDD and TDD. Test-guided development (acceptance and units).
  • How to work with legacy code and reduce technical debt.

End-of-Master’s Project (5 ECTS)
  • During the Postgraduate course, we will explore a practical case of introducing the course content at a company, and students will be organised into multidisciplinary teams of students using Scrum.