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Essential Practices for Agile Teams

Overview

Reference No TGS-2023039682
Part of Graduate Certificate in Designing Modern Software Systems
Duration 3 days
Course Time 9:00am - 5:30pm
Enquiry Please contact ask-iss@nus.edu.sg for more details.
This 3-day course provides in-depth technical training for various agile engineering practices to allow the team to be more adaptive to changes in business requirement.

This course covers the most important engineering approaches for the sustained success of teams practicing agile methodology such as Scrum. The practices covered include test driven development, pair programming, refactoring, agile architecture, continuous integration and user stories.

Participants are taught both the ideas and practical matters via lectures and hands-on sessions. The lecture sessions will be interlaced with actual design and code samples, while the hand-on sessions and exercises are designed to help the participant assimilate the knowledge in a clear and practical way.

The hands-on sessions will include the following:

• Writing user stories
• Test-driven development with pair programming
• Refactoring codes with code smells
• Setting up a Continuous Integration environment

At the end of the course, the participants will be immersed in an actual coding session to apply all the concepts in a mini project setting together. This will include applying techniques planning poker (agile estimation) and end-to-end sprint process (sprint planning, sprint, sprint review and sprint retrospective).

Java is used as the main programming language to explain the concepts in lectures, workshops and the coding session. Participants need to be able to contribute in a Java coding session within a team.

This course is part of the Software Systems series and Digital Agility series offered by NUS-ISS.

Upcoming Classes

Class 1: 24 to 26 November 2025 (Full-Time | Public)
Duration: 3 Days
When: Nov 24, 25, 26
Mode of Conduct: Face-to-Face
Time: 9:00am to 5:30pm

Class 2: 10 to 24 January 2026 (Part-Time | MTech)
Duration: 3 Days
When: Jan 10, 17, 24
Mode of Conduct: Face-to-Face
Time: 9:00am to 5:30pm

Register

Registration Instructions

Self-sponsored Participants

  • Register for the course by clicking on the "Register Now" button above
  • You may refer to the User Guide for Learner

Company-sponsored Participants

  • You will have to be registered for the course by someone from your company who has an account on the LifeLong Learning Portal (L³AP)
  • The person in-charge may register you for the course by:
    • Generating a corporate registration link for you to register for the course
      • After the link is generated, you must:
        1. Log in to L³AP by clicking on the "Register Now" button
        2. Click on the corporate registration link after logging in
      • If you do not follow the above instructions, you will be registered for the course as self-sponsored
    • Registering you for the course backend
      • You will still be required to log in to L³AP and complete your registration by clicking on the "Register Now" button above
  • You may refer your HR/L&D POC to the User Guide for Company

Key Takeaways

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

  • Appreciate different agile software development methodologies
  • Collaborate with stakeholder using user stories
  • Understand and practise pair programming
  • Understand and practise Test Driven Development (TDD)
  • Apply architecture and design practices in agile software development
  • Perform refactoring and apply refactoring patterns
  • Understand the need for continuous integration (CI) and build a CI system


Who Should Attend

This course is targeted at: 

  • Java Architect, Designer and Developer who needs to implement agile method into their project.
  • System analysts and software engineers involved in software development that is applying or considering agile methodology.
  • Technical project managers and project leads who manage agile teams and would like to improve the effectiveness of the team.

Prerequisites

  • Participants should have experience in at least one cycle of the software development and familiar with at least one programming language (preferably Java).

  • It is also preferred that participants have at least one year prior experience in software development in technical role. Since Java is used as the language in the coding session, participants need to be comfortable in writing Java code together with a partner who may be versed in the programming language.

    • What to Bring

    No printed copies of course materials are issued.
    Participants must bring their internet-enabled computing device (laptops, tablet etc) with power charger to access and download course materials.

    If you are bringing a laptop, please see below for the tech specs:

     

    Minimum

    Recommended

    Computer and processor

    1.6 GHz or faster, 4-core Intel Core i5 or equivalent

    1.8 GHz, 4-core Intel Core i7 or equivalent

    Memory

    8GB RAM

    16GB RAM

    Hard Disk

    256 GB disk size

     

    Display

    1280 x 768 screen resolution (32-bit requires hardware acceleration for 4K and higher)

    1280x1024 minimum screen resolution

    Graphics

    Graphics hardware acceleration requires DirectX 9 or later, with WDDM 2.0 or higher for Windows 10 (or WDDM 1.3 or higher for Windows 10 Fall Creators Update).

    DirectX 10 graphics card for graphics hardware acceleration

    Others

    An internet connection – broadband wired or wireless

    Speakers and a microphone – built-in or USB plug-in or wireless Bluetooth

    A webcam or HD webcam - built-in or USB plug-in
    Software Eclipse (preferably the latest version) with JDK and a JUnit testing Framework for workshops in Java

    		 Eclipse (preferably the latest version) with JDK and a JUnit testing Framework for workshops in Java

    Note: You may deviate from the above as long as you are able to comfortably run the development environment (Eclipse) on your machine and access the Wi-Fi and Internet. 


    What Will Be Covered

    • Introduction to Agile Software Development
    • User Stories
    • Pair Programming
    • Test-Driven Development
    • Architecture and Design
    • Refactoring
    • Continuous Integration

    Format

    Lectures, games, hands-on workshop and mock project

     



    Fees & Subsidies

    SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) Funding 2024
      Full Course Fees Singapore Citizens & PRs aged 21 years and above 
    (70% funding support)    		 Singapore Citizens aged 40 years and above 
    (90% funding support)    		 Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS) 
    (90% funding support)
    Full course fee  S$2850 S$2850 S$2850 S$2850
    SSG Funding  - S$1995 S$1995 S$1995
    Nett course fee  S$2850 S$855 S$855 S$855
    9% GST on nett course fee S$256.50 S$76.95 S$76.95 S$76.95
    Additional Funding if eligible under various schemes  - - S$570 S$570
    Total nett course fee payable, including GST  S$3106.50 S$931.95 S$361.95 S$361.95

    Note:
    1. SSG Funding is available to qualified individuals, subject to meeting the attendance requirement and passing of assessment.
    2. All self-sponsored Singaporeans aged 25 and above can use their SkillsFuture Credit to pay for course fees. For more information about SkillsFuture Credit, click here.
    3. SME fees are applicable only to participants who are sponsored by small and medium enterprises.
    4. SSG Funding is valid up to 30 Sep 2024.



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    Certificate

    Certificate of Completion
    Participants have to meet a minimum attendance rate of 75% and are required to pass the assessment to be issued a Certificate of Completion.


    Preparing for Your Course

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    WIFI Access

    WIFI access will be made available to participants.

    Venue

    NUS-ISS
    25 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
    Singapore 119615

    Click HERE for directions to NUS-ISS

    In the event of a change of venue, participants are advised to refer to the acceptance email sent one week prior to the commencement date.

    Course Confirmation

    All classes are subject to confirmation and NUS-ISS will send an acceptance email to participants one week prior to the commencement date. Confirmed registrants are to attend and complete all lectures, class exercises, workshops and assessments (where applicable). Additionally, all responses to feedbacks and surveys conducted by NUS-ISS and its partners must be submitted. All training and assessments will be delivered as described in the course webpage.

    General Enquiry

    Please feel free to write to ask-iss@nus.edu.sg if you have any enquiry or feedback.



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