Agile Modeling

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Duration

2 days

Description

How can you manage to model the complexity of modern software in the short cycles that Agile software development approaches propose? By recommending that functional software is the main measurement for team progress, what space does that leave for modeling activities? What forms do Agile models take and what tools are most appropriate for producing them? These are some of the many questions that development teams ask themselves when adopting an Agile process.

Agile modeling is an approach emphasizing on the exploration of the business domain by iterating on different models and by preferring the use of emerging formalisms adapted to the domain rather than the use of preconceived generic formalisms.

This practice allows to share the product vision within a project team by offering different lines of exploration. In addition to the advantage of addressing the complementary aspects of a project that the model, user interface, and management rules provide, it allows all team members to find the best expression tool for letting them share their understanding of the product with the team.

Objectives

This course will teach you the challenges of Agile modeling and will present the tools that have proven themselves in real environments. Our trainers will illustrate their remarks with concrete examples and share their Agile modeling experience. You will participate in various modeling activities by simulating the tempo of an Agile software development project in order to be able to apply the techniques presented to your environment. Special emphasis will be placed on the communication and collaboration between the development team and the client. More than an encyclopaedia of modeling standards, the Agile modeling session facilitator will become a catalyst of emerging formalisms adapted to the stakeholders' culture.

Once the general concepts of Agile modeling have been addressed, the participants will put the various modeling activities presented into practice by way of a concrete example in subgroup workshops. They will understand the benefits associated with Agile modeling and how to use it for sharing and progressively enriching the vision of the future product. The hands-on exercises will illustrate that Agile modeling is designed first and foremost to promote communication and collaboration among all stakeholders in a project.

Target audience

• Clients, programmers, business analysts, database administrators, and architects; generally speaking, any member of a development team who wishes to learn how to combine modeling activities with an iterative and incremental approach
• Members of an Agile software development team who wish to improve their modeler's toolbox and discuss its contents

Content

• Overview of Agile modeling
  • Motivations
  • Values, principles, and practices
  • Model emergence through modeling activities
  • Product backlog: visible and submerged part of the iceberg
• Initial modeling activities
  • Initial domain modeling
  • Requirement modeling through roles, user stories, and use case diagrams
  • Modeling of major architecture aspects
  • User interface modeling: navigation and low-fidelity model
• Challenges of iterative modeling
  • User stories: knowing how to write and divide them up well
  • Backlog preparation and maintenance
  • Domain-driven design
  • Executable specifications
  • Test-driven development
• Workshops
  • Domain modeling
  • Requirement modeling
  • Role modeling
  • User interface modeling
  • Paper prototyping
  • Backlog refactoring
  • Writing and division of user stories
  • Writing of executable specifications

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