Getting Started: Agile Meets Design Thinking
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About this course: Despite everyone's good intentions, hard work and solid ideas, too many projects end up creating unneeded, unusable, and unsellable products. But it doesn't have to be this way. Agile and design thinking offer a different--and effective--approach to product development, one that results in valuable solutions to meaningful problems. In this course, you’ll learn how to determine what's valuable to a user early in the process--to frontload value--by focusing your team on testable narratives about the user and creating a strong shared perspective. We’ll show you how to: - Explain key concepts and practices from the agile product development methodology - Create a strong shared perspective and drive to value using personas and problem scenarios - Diagnose what software to develop and why using a set of agile user stories and prototypes - Facilitate narrative collaboration with user stories and prototypes - Allow for early testing and validation by analyzing and deciding on story backlogs This course is supported by the Batten Institute at UVA’s Darden School of Business. The Batten Institute’s mission is to improve the world through entrepreneurship and innovation: www.batteninstitute.org.
Created by:Â Â Â University of Virginia
Taught by:Â Â Â Â Alex Cowan, Faculty & Batten Fellow
Darden School of Business
Basic Info
Course 1 of 5 in the Agile Development Specialization.
Commitment
5 weeks of study, 3 - 4 hours/week
Language
English
How To Pass
Pass all graded assignments to complete the course.
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Course 1 of Specialization
Drive to Value with Agile Methods. Master an adaptive approach to product development
Agile Development
University of Virginia
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About University of Virginia
The University of Virginia is distinctive among institutions of higher education. Founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819, and located on a World Heritage site in Charlottesville, the University sustains the ideal of developing, through education, leaders who are well-prepared to help shape the future of the nation. The University is public, while nourished by the strong support of its alumni. It is also selective; the students who come here have been chosen because they show the exceptional promise Jefferson envisioned.
Syllabus
WEEK 1
Problems Agile Solves
The practices that deliver excellent product are well understood, but rarely seen. In this module, we’ll identify what’s hard about creating excellent products and how agile can help. We'll begin with a discussion of the Agile Manifesto, introduce key agile te...Â
14 videos, 4 readings
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Graded: Week 1 Quiz
WEEK 2
Agile Design with Personas, Problem Scenarios, and Alternatives
The best way to avoid building something nobody wants is to start with somebody in mind. That "somebody" is a persona. Personas and problem scenarios tie development to the end user and help you drive toward a valuable solution. In this module, you’ll learn to...Â
11 videos, 1 reading
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Graded: Week 2 Quiz
WEEK 3
Writing Great Agile User Stories
Creating software that meets users' need begins with understanding that user--and user stories are a tool that helps teams understand the end-user perspective.The agile user story is the focal point for just about everything that follows. This is where we diag...Â
7 videos, 3 readings
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Graded: Personas, Problem Scenarios & Propositions
WEEK 4
Enhancing Your User Story
Now that you've "discovered" your user, you'll write your user story--and you'll make it great by layering in details. In this module, you'll learn to create detailed, specific user stories to anchor your project.Â
18 videos, 2 readings
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Graded: Week 4 Quiz
WEEK 5
Finish User Stories Assignment and Optional Content with an IT Focus: Strategy-Driven Process Design
First, use this week to finish up your User Story Assignment and complete peer reviews.Then, if you're interested in IT, let's talk process. What? Process? While you’ve learned that the agile manifesto explicitly reacted to primary/excessive use of tools and p...Â
15 videos, 3 readings
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