About This Course

CSCI S-71/E-71 Agile Software Development is a course taught at Harvard University Summer School and Extension School.

This course is an immersive experience in Agile software development. We study both the technical and cultural/social aspects of Agile, including:

• Agility in software product development
  
• Business agility, including:
  • Scrum
  • Agile product inception
    
  • User stories and product backlog construction
    
  • Definition of done and definition of ready
    
  • Estimating
  • Agile forecasting and project management
    
  • Sprint planning
    
  • Retrospectives
• Technical agility, including:
  • Pair programming
    
  • Mob programming
    
  • Test-driven development
    
  • Working with legacy code: refactoring for clean code
    
  • Behavior-driven development
    
  • Continuous integration
    
  • Continuous delivery
    
  • DevOps
• Advanced agility, including:
  • High-performance teams: Core Protocols for psychological safety and emotional intelligence
    
  • Agile at large scale
    
  • Introducing and sustaining Agile in your organization