Agile Development Practices

Agile Development Practices

26mIntermediate2021-11-16

Authors

Harrison Ferrone

Harrison Ferrone

Software Engineer, Game Developer, and Creative Technologist

Course details

The agile methodology has become a staple in the software development industry for its rapid development capabilities, iterative workflow, and improved team dynamics. In this course, Harrison Ferrone covers agile practices aimed at addressing the complexities and limitations unique to mobile projects. He takes you from the concept and ideation phase all the way to continuous integration and deployment, highlighting best practices and efficient planning. By the end of this course, you will have a foundation for bringing agile into your development process and streamlining your existing project pipeline.

Learning objectives
Planning and design
Developing flexible architecture
Documentation considerations
When to optimize
Determining velocity
Agile programming techniques
Refactoring
Testing and handling bugs
Structuring a release pipeline

Skills covered

Agile Software DevelopmentPersonaDevOps

Concepts

Introduction

  • Taking your agile development capabilities to the next level
  • What you should know

Planning

  • Getting involved early
  • Picking your tools
  • To document or not

Design

  • Flexible architecture
  • Avoiding premature optimization

Development

  • Determining velocity
  • Agile programming techniques
  • Refactor, and then refactor more

Testing

  • Choosing your testing regimen
  • Handling leapfrogging bugs

Release

  • Continuous integration
  • Structuring a release pipeline

Conclusion

  • The big picture