To deliver agile outcomes, you have to do more than implement agile processes- you have to create focus around what matters to your user and constantly test your ideas. This is easier said than done, but most of today’s high-functioning innovators have a strong culture of experimentation.
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How to drive valuable outcomes for your user and reduce waste for your team by diagnosing and prioritizing what you need to know about them
How to focus your practice of agile by pairing qualitative and quantitative analytics
How to do just enough research when you need it by running design sprints
How to accelerate value delivery by investing in your product pipeline
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Usability TestingContinuous Deliveryhypothesis-driven developmentLean Startup
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English
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
2 hours to complete
How Do We Know if We're Building for a User that Doesn't Exist?
How do you go from backlog grooming to blockbuster results with agile? Hypothesis-driven decisions. Specifically, you need to shift your teammates focus from their natural tendency to focus on their own output to focusing out user outcomes. Easier said than done, but getting everyone excited about results of an experiment is one of the most reliable ways to get there. This week, we’ll focus on how you get started in a practical way.
2 hours to complete
19 videos (Total 69 min), 2 readings, 1 quiz
19 videos
Introducing Example Company: HVAC in a Hurry1m
Hypotheses-Driven Development & Your Product Pipeline2m
The Persona Hypothesis3m
The Problem/JTBD Hypothesis3m
The Demand/Value Hypothesis2m
The Usability Hypothesis2m
The Functional Hypothesis2m
Driving to Value with Your Persona & Problem Hypothesis1m
Example Personas and Problem Scenarios4m
Setting Up Interviews3m
Prepping for Subject Interviews3m
Conducting the Interview6m
How Not to Interview6m
Day in the Life4m
You and Your Next Design Sprint4m
The Practice of Time Boxing4m
Overview of the Persona and Problem Sprint2m
How Do I Sell the Idea of a Design Sprint4m
2 readings
Course Overview & Requirements15m
Getting Project Management Institute (PMI) Professional Development Units (PDUs) and Scrum Alliance SEU10m
1 practice exercise
Week 1 Quiz20m
2 hours to complete
How Do We Reduce Waste & Increase Wins by Testing Our Propositions Before We Build Them?
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
18 videos (Total 113 min)
18 videos
Lean Startup and the Systematic Drive to Value4m
Introducing Enable Quiz1m
Focusing Your Ideas6m
Creating Assumptions4m
Learning What's Valuable7m
Business to Consumer Case Studies9m
Business to Business Case Studies6m
Using a Design Sprint to Test Your Demand Hypothesis3m
Interview: Tristan Kromer on the Practice of Lean Startup6m
Interview: David Bland on the Practice of Lean Startup5m
Interview: Tristan Kromer on Creating a Culture of Experimentation Part 17m
Interview: Tristan Kromer on Creating a Culture of Experimentation Part 26m
Interview: David Bland on Creating a Culture of Experimentation: Part 14m
Interview: David Bland on Creating a Culture of Experimentation: Part 29m
Interview: David Bland on Marrying Agile to Lean Startup7m
Interview: David Bland on Using Hypothesis with Agile5m
Interview: Laura Klein on the Right Kind of Research10m
1 practice exercise
Week 2 Quiz20m
2 hours to complete
How Do We Consistently Deliver Great 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.
2 hours to complete
16 videos (Total 80 min)
16 videos
The Inexact Science of Interface Design6m
Diagnosing Usability with Donald Norman's 7 Steps Model8m
Fixing Usability with Donald Norman's 7 Steps Model3m
Applying the 7 Steps Model to Hypothesis-Driven Development3m
Fixing the Visceral Layer4m
Fixing the Behavioral Layer: The Importance of Comparables & Prototyping9m
Prototyping With Balsamiq4m
Usability Testing: Fun & Affordable2m
The Right Testing at the Right Time2m
A Test Plan Anyone Can Use6m
Creating Good Test Items3m
Running a Usability Design Sprint3m
Running a Usability Design Sprint Skit5m
Interview: Laura Klein on Qualitative vs. Quantitative Research4m
Interview: Laura Klein on Lean UX in Enterprise IT5m
1 practice exercise
Week 3 Quiz20m
4 hours to complete
How Do We Invest to Move Fast?
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.
4 hours to complete
23 videos (Total 118 min)
23 videos
The Team that Releases Together4m
Getting Started with Continuous Delivery3m
Anders Wallgren on Getting Started4m
The Test Pyramid6m
The Commit & Small Tests Stage2m
The Job of Version Control3m
Medium Tests1m
Large Tests6m
Creating Large/Behavioral Tests9m
Anders Wallgren on Functional Testing9m
Release Stage4m
The Job of Deploying6m
Anders Wallgren on Deployment2m
Chris Kent on Developing with Continuous Delivery10m
Chris Kent on Continuous Deployment11m
Test-Driven General Management5m
Narrative and the 'Happy Path'3m
The Emergence of DevOps and the Ascent of Continuous Delivery4m
Design for Deployability2m
Anders Wallgren on Continuous Deployment3m
Anders Wallgren on Creating a Friendly Environment for Continuous Deployment6m
Course Conclusion2m
1 practice exercise
Week 4 Quiz20m
Reviews
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 MSJul 23, 2020
Alex delivers a concise message and provides real-world examples coupled with interviews with industry experts that assist in a deeper understanding of how and when to apply Agile,
by AApr 30, 2020
Alex has explained each and everything in a very simplified manner which helps us to understand the concept so well. It was a pleasure going through the course. Thanks a lot.
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