Engineering practices in modern software development

Engineering practices are a particular challenge when adopting Agile. Yet without them, building a high-quality product is next to impossible. To start applying engineering practices on a project, you need to understand the benefits they bring, as well as the challenges and nuances of adopting them. Every project and team is unique, but there are still proven strategies that will help you start adopting them and succeed.

The goal of the training is to walk you through the family of core engineering practices used in Agile and to give your team the initial push to adopt them. Over 16 hours, we’ll cover 8 engineering practices and approaches:

• Code review
• Pair programming
• Unit testing
• Refactoring
• Application build automation
• Continuous integration
• Functional test automation
• TDD

They are all interconnected and deliver the greatest benefit when applied together. Each one supports the others, complementing and extending them. Every practice will be demonstrated on a real Java project, whose code will be available to participants afterward to study as learning material. There will be time during the training for questions and for discussing specific scenarios and real-life examples from participants, with advice and comments from the trainers. Participants will be able to share their own experience, talk with colleagues, and hear other people’s views.

This training introduces you to the principles behind each practice and the benefits of adopting them. The trainers will share their many years of successful hands-on experience applying these practices. The training also covers several strategies for adopting the practices gradually at different stages of a project. By the end of the training, you will:

• Gain theoretical knowledge of engineering practices in Agile
• Learn techniques for adopting and applying them at different stages of a project
• See firsthand how effective some engineering practices are
• Expand your knowledge with real-life examples that will help you start working with engineering practices on your project quickly and effectively
• Get expert answers to your questions about real-life situations on your project or team
• Avoid many mistakes and difficulties in your real-world work