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1-Day Introduction to Agile. This is a one day training targeted to any number of people, It provides an entry level introduction to Agile software development. During this day the participants gain a good understanding of Agile, it's roots and history & the motivation to become an agile organization. Beyond understanding "the why of Agile", when the day is over the participants will have knowledge about several agile methodologies and several agile engineering and project management practices.

Introduction to Agile Engineering Practices The place of Quality in the process Technical Debt Quality Vs Speed Test Automation Understanding Testing Levels TDD/ATDD Isolation From automated build to continuous deployment Build Systems Continuous Integration One Branch Strategies Improved software design SOLID design principles Evolving design DRY Law of Demeter (Principle of Least Knowledge) KISS Additional practices Pair programming Refactoring Spikes Collective Ownership Handling Defects

Practical Scrum This course is a 2 day training with a goal to explain the what how and why do we do Scrum. The course will go through all of the major topics related to scrum including: Agile, the Scrum framework, self organizing teams and engineering practices that are common for Scrum teams. In addition to the theoretical know-how that we will cover, a lot of exercises and discussions will take place in order to get a feel of things. During those two days, the participants will gradually simulate a real Scrum project with all of it's aspects (except the actual coding). Understanding the paradigm shift in software development. Agile manifesto- What is it ? Where does it come from? The Scrum framework. Scrum values Scrum roles - Team, Product owner & Scrum master. Scrum artifacts - Product backlog, Sprint backlog, Burndown charts Scrum ceremonies - Sprint planning, Sprint review, retrospective Definition of Done Team work - what does it really mean? Agile estimation and planning techniques Engineering practices commonly used in Scrum. Self organizing team Scaling scrum.

The Retrospective workshop is a one day training module that can be either added to any series of agile related trainings or can be conducted as a stand alone training. During this workshop participants will gain better and deeper understanding of the retrospective meeting. Participants shall explore different ways to facilitate a retrospective while understanding pro's and con's of the different styles and activities.

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Do You need a Scrum Master?

“A good Scrum master can serve a few teams. A great Scrum Master will serve only one”.

rephrasing Michael James

There’s an ongoing debate on whether a team needs a full time Scrum master for the long run or not. Many teams feels that the duties of SM only fills a part of his day, and therefore he can do more than "just be a Scrum Master”. In some cases the expectation from the SM was to pick up tasks like any team member, in other cases the SM was working with 2 or 3 teams in parallel, and in other teams spread the roles of the SM between various team members (and not having a dedicated person as the SM). And there are of course many more options.

and honestly speaking, all are valid solutions that can be really effective. What I did learn over the years though, is that no matter how you approach this, you should always keep in mind the following when you decide on how to approach this:

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Why we created Practical Agile?

Why we created Practical Agile?

Get your paper tissues ready, as this is a love story. Maybe we should make a Hollywood movie of it someday. Well, jokes aside, it really is, albeit not in the romantic sense.

Elad, Lior and I set Practical Agile in 2012. To be precise, the day the company was minted was the day of the first Agile Practitioners conference, and the two organizations go hand in hand. One is a commercial organization, the other non-profit.

But I am ahead of myself. A little bit of background first.

The three of us, Elad, Lior and I, had various experiences of working in organizations. By using two vignettes (Elad loves it when I use this word) I will divide these experiences into two major groups:

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Testimonials

Achi Solomon - Scrum Master - Verint

Ilan has been coaching me and my SCRUM team for more than half a year - I must say that the end results are impressive - our team have received a certificate fo...

Philippe Cohen - Founder - Shefing

I hired Elad to introduce SCRUM in our 30 developers team and Elad was capable to run an engaging training where every individual developer felt empowered. Late...

Dr. Laszlo Petrovics - Psychologist

Having been asked to assist World Bank/IMF in understanding/ redefining organization needs of the post-Communist Public Sector in health delivery and education ...

Irena Label - Scrum Master at Cisco ...

My team and I have worked with Elad for about six months now, during which we learned and are still learning how to have an agile process, but more than that - ...

Alon Cohen - Development manager at RSA

Elad did a couple for workshops for my group, one for the entire cross functional group and one for Scrum Masters. Both workshops were amazing. Elad knows how t...

Oren Ariav - CTO - Ministry of environmental...

For the past two years, Elad Sofer has been the ministry's consultant for the Scrum framework.During this period we have found Elad to be not only as a professi...

Yves Hanoulle - Creative Collaboration Agent

When I proposed to organize a CoachRetreat in Tel-Aviv, Ilan jumped to the opportunity. With just little explaination (a few skype chat's) he lead the third Coa...

Noam Zweig – Head of Engineering Division at...

CyberArk R&D and me works with Lior for already 2 years, and more ahead. For the past 2 years, Lior and his team guided us, and helped us to understand the ...

Ornit Maizel - VP R&D at Whipclip

I had a wonderful opportunity to collaborate with Orna while she helped us implementing SCRUM methodology in our R&D department at Whipclip.Her deepest kn...

Naama Gafni Lifshitz - SAP

We had the opportunity to have Ilan from Practical agile lead a workshop for team building for one of our project leadership teams. This was a great experience...