Agile Meets Design Thinking by University of Virginia (Coursera)
Agile and Design Thinking combined can create a very innovative and effective approach to product development. This Darden School of Business Course explains how to use agile product development and design thinking to deliver valuable answers to important challenges and create better digital goods. Students in this course learn how to decide what is valuable to a user early in the process, how to focus most of their efforts and time on testable narratives about the user, and how to create a strong shared perspective. The course is divided into four modules that cover the following topics:
- Overview of Agile practices and the problems agile solves
- Developing personas, problem scenarios, and alternatives using best practices from design thinking
- User research
- Creating agile user stories
- Testing assumptions
- Focusing on Customer Value with User Stories
This course is best suited for those who have some experience working in the digital arena and use agile approaches. It is part of the Coursera specialties Digital Product Management Specialization and Agile Development Specialization. Alex Cowan, a former entrepreneur and intrapreneur, teaches the course. He is currently teaching and coaching product teams at UVA Darden. His specialty is in digital innovation.
Key Highlights
- Agile and Design Thinking Course endorsed by Project Management Institute (PMI)
- Learn to evaluate and explain the relevance of concepts and practices from the agile development methodologies
- Learn to use design methods like personas and problem scenarios
- Understand how to facilitate narrative collaboration with user stories and prototypes
- Learn how to diagnose what software will be valuable to the user and how to test your ideas using agile user stories and prototypes
Duration : 4 weeks, 2-5 hours per week
Google Rating : 4.7/5.0
Enroll here: coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-getting-started-agile
