1. What is Agile Development?
   
   
2. Characteristics of Agile Methods
   1. Iterative and Incremental
   2. Adaptive planning
   3. Evolutionary design and architecture
   4. Rapid response to change
   5. Flexibility
   
   
   
3. Benefits of using Agile Methods
   1. Risk reduction
   2. Accommodating change
   3. Earlier production of business value
   4. Progress Tracking
   5. Communication
   
   
   
4. The Agile Manifesto
   
   
5. Twelve Agile Development Principles
   
   
6. Popular Agile Methodologies
   1. Extreme Programming
   2. Scrum
   3. Crystal Methodologies
   4. Agile Modeling
   5. Others
   
   
   
7. Is the Unified Process (UP) Agile?

1. XP Values
2. Principles
3. Practices
4. Roles

1. Importance of the Customer Role
2. Customer Rights and Responsibilities.
3. Advantages of having an On-Site Customer
4. Working without an On-Site Customer.

1. Manager Responsibilities
2. Best Practices

1. Common Developer Objections
2. Common Management Objections
3. Overcoming Obstacles

The above sections describe the current one-day class. The testing practices used in agile methodologies are discussed in module II, along with the other classes. To provide a greater emphasis on testing, the following module will be added. This will be drawn from material covered in the one-week class. This module would be placed between modules III and IV in the above outline.

Testing in Agile Methodologies.

1. Importance of Unit-Testing.
2. How Unit Testing improves development.
3. Unit Testing tools
4. Using Customer Tests
5. Importance of test automation.
6. Reporting test results - Big Visible Charts.
7. Comparison to testing in waterfall-based methodologies.