This course provides the necessary classroom hours for certification pre-requisites: 23 PDUs

In this three-day course you will gain an overview of the entire ATDP process and how to express requirements in the form of acceptance tests. You'll learn how to incorporate acceptance criteria in the acceptance tests and learn how to use acceptance tests to replace traditional requirement documents. Learn how to craft user stories in formats that ensure unambiguous requirements and understand when to craft acceptance test for optimal effect on the team.

OBJECTIVES

• Understand how ATDP can be used for both IT projects and non-IT projects
• Acceptance criteria are a measuring stick that lets you know when you’re done
• Writing tests before code forces one to know what the code is supposed to do
• Using ATDP to manage changes
• Understand the effect of acceptance tests on estimation accuracy
• Understand when to run acceptance tests and the meaning of the results
• Learn how to coach customers in the use of acceptance tests
• Understand Agile modeling techniques which can be utilized to enhance customer requirement presentation
• Understand management’s role in ATDP
• Understand ATDP’s effects on the dev and QA roles
• Practice maintaining acceptance tests
• Learn to handle common requirement problems
• Learn to handle situations in which the customers don’t know what they want
• Learn what to do when requirements are unclear
• Understand the path to take when developers don’t know the detailed direction for development
• Understand when and how QA involvement is necessary for the process

Audience

Those who need to know the basics of Agile via a technique that they can use on a project immediately after leaving class. 

Primary Attendee Group:

Business Analysts, Product Owners, Project Managers, Subject Matter Experts

Secondary Attendee Group:    

Project Team, Product Owners, Managers