Agile methods are wonderful. They’ll give you software in no time at all, turn your customers and users into friends, catch bugs before they catch you, change the world, and boost your love life. Do you believe these claims (even excluding the last two)? It’s really difficult to form an informed opinion, since most of the presentations of eXtreme Programming and other agile practices are intended to promote them (and the consultants to whom they provide a living), not to deliver an objective assessment.

Course BackgroundAgile methods are wonderful. They’ll give you software in no time at all, turn your customers and users into friends, catch bugs before they catch you, change the world, and boost your love life. Do you believe these claims (even excluding the last two)? It’s really difficult to form an informed opinion, since most of the presentations of eXtreme Programming and other agile practices are intended to promote them (and the consultants to whom they provide a living), not to deliver an objective assessment.Agile methods have now been around for more than a decade, during which many research teams, applying proven methods of experimental science, have performed credible empirical studies of how well the methods really work and how they compare to more traditional software engineering practices. This important body of research results, although not widely known, is critical to managers and developers in industry for deciding whether and how to use agile development. The course surveys these results, emphasizing the ones most directly relevant to practitioners.A short discussion session will enable participants with experience in agile methods to share their results. Who should attend and what you will learnThis course is intended for managers (VPs of Technology, CTOs, Project Leaders) and for software developers. They will come out with a strong understanding of agile development, and a clear view of when, where and how to apply them.

If you are looking for a guru-style initiation to the agilereligion, this is not the course for you. What it does is to describe in detail the corpus of techniques covered by the “agile” umbrella (so that you can apply them effectively to your developments), and assess their contribution to software engineering. It is neither “for” nor “against” agile methods but fundamentally descriptive, pedagogical, objective and practical. The truth is that agile methods include some demonstrably good ideas along with some whose benefits are at best dubious. In addition (and this should not be a surprise) they cannot make the fundamental laws of software engineering go away.

NICOM trainer is a pioneer in software engineering who has played a major role in developing modern software technology and bringing it to software engineers working in production environments. Internationally recognized expert in object technology, entrepreneur, author, trainer, he is a passionate researcher on the most advanced topics of IT who has devoted his carrier to the improvement of software quality. As Chief Architect of Eiffel Software, he has made major contributions to modern software engineering and has received several top international awards: Jolt Award, ACM Software System Award, IEEE Harlan Mills Award ... He has published hundreds of articles, 11 books on software engineering topics and has talked at all the major technical conferences worldwide.

Whom do I contact for more details?

You can reach us on +91-9538878798 or contact@unicomlearning.com