Agile Fundamentals

Agile Fundamentals is a video-based course offered by Pluralsight. This educational opportunity is endorsed by the self-study group initiative at Boston PHP Meetup. It is a supplement to our Agile Appetizer offerings.

Agile Fundamentals

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Course Summary

Agile Fundamentals explores how working on an Agile project has benefits for your development team, your end users, and your organization as a whole. This course begins with an exploration of the more traditional waterfall process, and then explains the benefits of running an Agile team. The material in this course targets software developers, project managers, and others who might benefit from running an Agile project. The focus is to deliver maximum value early to customers.

Course Content

  • Introduction
  • Waterfall Development and Its Problems
  • What is Agile All About?
  • Common Agile Misconceptions and Mistakes
  • Advantages and Disadvantages?
  • Extreme Programming (XP)
  • Scrum

Additional Pluralsight Courses

Pluralsight is a technology workforce development company. While may courses can be taken for a modest fee, Pluralsight helps technologists around the globe develop the skills they need with a collection of free courses. Here is a sample:

Boston PHP

Boston PHP is the largest education-focused Meetup in New England with more than 3,700 members. Our mission is to engage members in continuing education efforts. As a result, we offer services beyond in-person meetups. A cornerstone of our member engagement strategy is this virtual self-study group initiative called Web Apprentices.

If you would like to learn agile methodologies as part of a group of like-minded web developers, join Boston PHP Meetup and sign up for the next Agile Appetizer self-study group.


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Gene Babon is a team leader, project manager and web developer who is actively seeking next management-level opportunity. Learn more at Pick a lane. Keep driving.


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