Agile and Taiga Foundations

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This customizable, 2-day workshop is designed to quickly get a team or teams up and running with Taiga. In-class exercises introduce participants to their roles, responsibilities, interactions, tools and Agile processes. These exercises are then extended to include information from the team’s current project.

The workshop’s typical crawl-walk-run format includes: a crawl stage with presentations and discussion of key concepts; a walk stage that includes an experiential exercise to learn how to apply concepts; a run stage where the exercises are repeated using actual data from the team’s project.

Audience:

This course is appropriate for one or more Agile teams just starting or about to start on a new project.
Course Duration:
2 days (optional 3rd day)

Prerequisites:

No prerequisites are required for this class.

Course Objectives:
Course Outline:

Day 1

  • Agile Overview
    • The Agile Manifesto and Principles
    • The Agile Team – What is cross functionality?
    • Work in Agile – How do we break it down?
    • Lab – Intro to the Taiga Environment
  • Scrum Overview
    • Roles and Responsibilities
    • How it Works
    • Artifacts
    • User Stories
      • Definition of Ready
      • Definition of Done
    • Lab – Creating a Scrum Project in Taiga

Day 2

  • Kanban Overview
    • Lean Development Principles
    • How it Works
      • The Board
    • Kanban Cards
    • Lab – Creating a Kanban Project in Taiga
  • Agile Estimation
    • Relative Sizing
    • Team Estimation Method
    • Lab – Using Taiga Seed
  • Next Steps
    • Agile Anti Patterns
    • Taiga Best Practices
    • Wiki and Plugins
    • Admin and Customization Q & A

(Optional) Day 3

  • Team Specific Project – Coaching
    • Project Initiation/Chartering
    • Agile Planning to Include Estimation
    • Product Backlog Refinement
    • Getting Set up in Taiga – Scrum or Kanban

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