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#BU-03-21 Getting Started with Agile and Design Thinking

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#BU-03-21 Getting Started with Agile and Design Thinking

  • Categories Business
  • Duration 30h
  • Total Enrolled 9
  • Last Update October 14, 2020

About Course

Darden School of Business, University of Virginia

Description

Discover how to create useful digital products using agile and design thinking.

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.

Alex Cowan

Alex Cowan

I’ve been an entrepreneur (5x) and intrapreneur (1x). Currently teaching @DardenMBA and coaching product teams. Keynote speaker in all my inner monologues. Site: Alexandercowan.com

 

 

Who developed the course?

University of Virginia Darden School of Business

Darden School of Business, University of Virginia

The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business delivers the world’s best business education experience to prepare entrepreneurial, global-minded and responsible leaders.

What Will I Learn?

  • 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 by 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

Topics for this course

18 Lessons30h

Prepare for Course Success?

Welcome to Getting Started with Agile and Design Thinking. Read a short overview of the course and the course requirements to prepare yourself for success, and spend some time getting to know your classmates.
COURSE OVERVIEW AND REQUIREMENTS ARTICLE
MEET AND GREET DISCUSSION
INTRODUCTION TO ALEX AND THE VENTURE DESIGN PROCESS ARTICLE

What is Agile??

Learn what agile is, where it came from, and why it's important. You'll gain an understanding of what agile means for different roles, including managers and specialists. Then you'll examine the specifics of agile.

What’s Hard About Creating Excellent Products??

Learn about best practices and why it's hard to create excellent products. You'll explore the concepts of scale friendly versus innovation friendly, blue button moments, and how to cultivate a culture of experimentation.

How Does Agile Help You Through the Hard Stuff??

Learn the meaning of the agile manifesto, understand how to use the Venture Design framework, and explore new ways of working. You'll also hear from two experts on agile.

Student Feedback

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JB

This course gives amazing insight into the design thinking, the do's and dont's , different steps in the design thinking process, different stakeholders, and answers mostly all the basic queries for a beginner in the design thinking process.

VC

The presentation of the content was super-engaging, descriptive and entertaining.

SA

It is helping me to start creating content on Design Thinking that will appeal to other Tech Consultants as well as beginners.

LB

I have been a Design Thinking Practioner for the past few years already and this course was a very welcome deep-dive as well as a refresher for me.

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Material Includes

  • Official Certificate

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Alex Cowan Darden School of Business University of Virginia

Target Audience

  • This course is for people interested in developing digital products, who are using agile methods and have some experience working in the digital space.
  • For people interested in receiving professional development units (PDUs), as a Project Management Institute (PMI®) Registered Education Provider, the University of Virginia Darden School of Business has been approved by PMI to issue 25 PDUs for this course.
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