The Agile Modeling for Collaborative Solutions training provides techniques, best practices and develops the skills needed to effectively collaborate on solutions. The training focus is on how to:

• Perform face-to-face communication with "low-tech & high touch" collaboration techniques
• Write agile use cases, user stories and requirements and build design models using the Unified Modeling Language
• Collaboratively develop requirements and design solutions using agile best practices from Scrum, Unified Process and XP.

The objectives of the seminar are to:

• Provide an understanding of the agile modeling techniques needed by the project team to successfully implement an agile project
• Provide tips and techniques for requirements and design that support an agile, rapid, iterative, evolutionary approach
• Provide practical agile project team group exercises for building the agile models for collaborative solutions
• Define the Agile and Iterative Development practices, describe agile vs. waterfall method and success factors
• Provide a case study simulation of agile modeling techniques and how they are used in the agile methods

• Agile and Iterative Collaboration Solution Approach
• Iterative vs. Waterfall
• Overview of JAD/Collaboration
• What is Scrum, XP and UP and what are the practices used for each?
• Project Team Composition and Description
• Success Factors

• Workshop Approaches
• Storyboarding
• Kit Reviews
• Prototyping

• Agile principles defining the vision and scope
• Constructing the Use Case Diagram to define the project vision and scope
• Case Study Exercise- How to build the Use Case Diagram for scoping and identifying the architecturally significant, risky and valuable features

• Agile principles for discovering the Requirements
• Constructing the Activity and Swimlane Workflow Diagram
  • UML notations
  • Uses of Activity Diagrams for requirements and design
• Benefits of Use Cases vs. User Stories
• High Level Use Cases
  • Using High Level Use Cases to define the 'Epics'
  • Guidelines for writing the high level use cases
• Case Study Exercises - How to build the Activity and Swimlane Workflow Diagrams and write the High Level Use Cases for defining 'Epics'
• Storyboarding techniques using Site Maps to identify the key components
• Case Study Exercise- Creating the high level Site Maps

• Agile principles and terminology for Iteration Detailed Requirements for the 'Sprint'
• Techniques and Practices for Iteration Collaborative Focus Groups
  • Face-to-Face communication
  • 'Low-Tech & High Touch' approach
  • Storyboarding and creative wall time practices
  • Ground rules
  • Timeboxing
  • Sprint Backlog Spreadsheet
  • Documentation practices
  • Environment
• Storyboarding the activity diagram with swimlanes for a use case
• Case Study Exercise- How to storyboard a use case with an activity diagram using swimlanes
• Writing Detailed Use Cases for Development and Acceptance Testing
  • Guidelines for writing detailed use cases
  • Storyboarding paper prototypes
• Case Study Exercise- How to write the detailed use case and storyboard paper prototypes in a collaborative setting
• Storyboarding techniques using Site Maps, State Charts and State Transition to define the UI navigation and usability requirements
• Case Study Exercise- How to create the State Charts to collaborate the UI navigation
• Constructing the Domain Object Model and CRCs
• Case Study Exercise- How to use the Domain Object Model and the CRCs for collaborative design

• Constructing the Sequence Diagram for design collaboration
• Case Study Exercise- How to build the Sequence Diagram

• The Agile Project simulation demonstrates how the agile modeling techniques can be used to define and design an agile project. Each student leads the group in a collaborative meeting using the scoping, requirements gathering and design techniques taught in class. Agile collaborative workshop and focus group agendas for leading the project team groups are provided.