To deliver agile outcomes, you have to do more than implement an agile process- you have to create focus around what matters to your user and rigorously test how well what you’re doing is delivering on that focus. Driving to testable ideas (hypotheses) and maximizing the results of your experimentation is at the heart of a high-functioning practice of agile. This course shows you how to facilitate alignment and create a culture of experimentation across your product pipeline.
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What you will learn
How to use metrics to facilitate alignment with your company’s objectives while keeping your team autonomous, creative, and evidence-driven
How to drive to evidence-based, testable ideas that maximize outcomes and minimize waste
How to test alternative interface patterns before you build them to maximize both product usability and purposeful implementation
How to prioritize and execute investments in your delivery pipeline to increase the frequency of releases and decrease manual grunt work
Skills you will gain
Usability TestingContinuous Deliveryhypothesis-driven developmentLean Startup
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
2 hours to complete
How do we drive our agility with analytics?
How do you go from backlog grooming to blockbuster results with agile? Hypothesis-driven decisions. Specifically, you need to make sure that your team is investing its time and energy in something where everyone knows what constitutes success. Most people and most teams aren’t used to working this way, and this week we’ll focus on how you get started in a practical way.
2 hours to complete
13 videos (Total 68 min), 2 readings, 1 quiz
13 videos
Creating a Culture of Experimentation5m
Getting to Hypothesis-Driven Development7m
Meet the Companies - HVAC in a Hurry and Enable Quiz3m
Facilitating Alignment at HVAC in a Hurry3m
Asking the Right Questions at HVAC in a Hurry2m
The Doing Behind the Data6m
A Foundation for Actionable Analytics - Intro + Example 16m
A Foundation for Actionable Analytics - Example 24m
Instrumenting for Action8m
Identifying Compelling Propositions2m
Recap on Lean Startup & Experimentation9m
Tracking Hypotheses3m
2 readings
Course Overview & Requirements10m
Getting Project Management Institute (PMI) Professional Development Units (PDUs)10m
1 practice exercise
Week 1 Quiz: Driving Agility with Analytics15m
2 hours to complete
How do we create compelling propositions for our user?
Nothing will help a team deliver better outcomes like making sure they’re building something the user values. This might sound simple or obvious, but I think after this week it’s likely you’ll find opportunities to help improve your team’s focus by testing ideas more definitively before you invest in developing software. In this module you’ll learn how to make concept testing an integral part of your product pipeline. We’ll continue to apply methods from Lean Startup, looking at how they pair with agile. We’ll look at how high-functioning teams design and run situation-appropriate experiments to test ideas, and how that works before the fact (when you’re testing an idea) and after the fact (when you’re testing the value of software you’ve released).
2 hours to complete
17 videos (Total 112 min)
17 videos
Designing Experiments7m
Laura Klein on the Practice of Lean UX10m
Testing Features: When and How4m
Testing Features: Running the Experiment5m
Testing Funnels6m
Testing Cohorts4m
A/B Testing4m
Advanced Outcome Management: The Hook Framework6m
David Bland on Marrying Agile to Lean Startup7m
David Bland on the Practice of Lean Startup5m
David Bland on Creating a Culture of Experimentation, Part 14m
David Bland on Creating a Culture of Experimentation, Part 29m
Tristan Kromer on the Practice of Lean Startup6m
Tristan Kromer on Getting Started with Lean6m
Tristan Kromer on Creating a Culture of Experimentation7m
Laura Klein on Creating a Culture of Experimentation10m
1 practice exercise
Week 2 Quiz: Should we build it? Did it matter?15m
3 hours to complete
How do we achieve excellent usability?
The best products are tested for usability early and often, avoiding the destructive stress and uncertainty of a ‘big unveil’. In this module, you’ll learn how to diagnose, design and execute phase-appropriate user testing. The tools you’ll learn to use here (a test plan template, prototyping tool, and test session infrastructure) are accessible/teachable to anyone on your team. And that’s a very good thing- often products are released with poor usability because there ‘wasn’t enough time’ to test it. With these techniques, you’ll be able to test early and often, reinforcing your culture of experimentation.
3 hours to complete
15 videos (Total 73 min)
15 videos
Recap on Designing for Usability4m
Creating a Good Test Suite9m
Creating Good Test Items4m
Testing Your User Stories Part 12m
Testing Your User Stories Part 23m
Running Usability Tests3m
Demo: Running a Usability Test5m
Demo: Creating Interactive Prototypes in Balsamiq1m
Laura Klein on Qualitative vs. Quantitative Research4m
Creating Consistency5m
The Importance of Comparables and Prototyping10m
Common Terms: Wireframes, Mockups, Prototypes & MVPs1m
Laura Klein on Lean UX in Enterprise IT5m
Final Thoughts on Usability58s
1 practice exercise
Week 3 Quiz: Is it usable?15m
2 hours to complete
How do we release fast without creating disasters?
You’ve learned how to test ideas and usability to reduce the amount of software your team needs to build and to focus its execution.Now you’re going to learn how high-functioning teams approach testing of the software itself. The practice of continuous delivery and the closely related Devops movement are changing the way we build and release software. It wasn’t that long ago where 2-3 releases a year was considered standard. Now, Amazon, for example, releases code every 11.6 seconds. This week, we’ll look at the delivery pipeline and step through what successful practitioners do at each stage and how you can diagnose and apply the practices that will improve your implementation of agile.
2 hours to complete
23 videos (Total 117 min)
23 videos
The Team that Releases Together4m
The Continuous Delivery Pipeline8m
Getting Started with Continuous Delivery3m
Anders Wallgren on the Advantages of Continuous Delivery3m
Anders Wallgren on Getting Started4m
The Test Pyramid6m
The Commit and Small Test Phase2m
Anders Wallgren on Unit Testing3m
The Job of Version Control3m
The Medium Test Phase1m
The Large Test Phase6m
Anders Wallgren on Testing UI1m
Anders Wallgren on Functional Testing9m
The Release Stage4m
The Job of Deploying/Ops6m
Chris Kent on Developing with Continuous Delivery10m
Chris Kent on Continuous Deployment11m
Jim Rose on Continuous Integration and Delivery7m
Narrative and the "Happy Path"3m
The Emergence of DevOps and the Ascent of Continuous Delivery4m
Design for Deployability2m
Course Close2m
1 practice exercise
Week 4 Quiz: Did it break?15m
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TOP REVIEWS FROM HYPOTHESIS-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT
by MBJan 29, 2019
Alex does an excellent job in structuring and delivering his courses. Definitely makes me want to continue educational opportunities with his courses offered and University of Virginia.
by OSJun 25, 2017
I thought this was a very good practical course. It was challenging for me since I lack experience in software development industry, but I thought it gave me a very good framework.
by RDMar 17, 2018
The course contains complete detailed information on Agile Testing. Users should make the best use of this course knowledge as now all the companies are now moving to Agile.
by CKSep 24, 2018
This course actually bring all that knowledge into light which has been taught in Course 1-3. all videos specially the interview are the essence of this course.
by DBFeb 8, 2017
Provides a lot of good insight on getting new code to production in a fast, high quality manner. The course has help me focus on the deployment pipeline.
by HKAug 27, 2019
Very good content and presentation. Liked the talks by different people from industry which gives a real world perspective from Agile practitioners
by YYMar 10, 2020
I love this course as it introduces me to new concepts and I felt it very interactive particularly, Anders wallgreens and continous delivery.
by PMSep 28, 2019
If you do not belong to the software industry probably it will not add value as other courses, but still you will learn important knowledges
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About the Agile Development Specialization
In this Specialization, you'll gain an understanding and appreciation of the principles and practice of agile management. You'll learn to coordinate all aspects of the agile development process, including running design sprints, managing teams, and fostering a culture of experimentation. In the final Capstone Project, you'll apply what you've learned to guide a real-world software development project to successful completion.
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