Despite everyone's good intentions, hard work and solid ideas, too many teams end up creating products that no one wants, no one can use, and no one buys. 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.
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About this Course
Some familiarity with software development is helpful, but not required.
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Try Coursera for BusinessWhat you will learn
How to evaluate and explain the relevance of concepts and practices from the agile development methodologies
How to create a strong shared perspective and drive to value using design methods like personas and problem scenarios
How to diagnose what software will be valuable to the user and how to test your ideas using agile user stories and prototypes
How to facilitate narrative collaboration with user stories and prototypes
Skills you will gain
- agile user stories
- User Experience Design (UXD)
- Agile Software Development
- Product Management
- Software Development
Some familiarity with software development is helpful, but not required.
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Problems Agile Solves
Focusing Your Agile with Personas, Jobs-to-be-Done, and Alternatives
Getting to Great Agile User Stories
Focusing on Customer Value with User Stories
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- 5 stars80.46%
- 4 stars15.75%
- 3 stars2.43%
- 2 stars0.63%
- 1 star0.69%
TOP REVIEWS FROM AGILE MEETS DESIGN THINKING
The course is very well designed & Alex has wonderfully explained the concepts very nicely...the pace of the course is fairly balanced...a big thanks to Alex and coursera for organizing this course
A nice introduction of the prerequisites that will further allow the implementation of agile methodologies. Very well structured and well documented. The assignments are also very practical.
A complete and perfect guidance for people willing to learn or already working on Agile. Assignment provides a hands on experience, which helps to work and move on the path of Agile
I really enjoyed the material and the instructor. The course was well organized and the instructor offered great insights and expanded on the "why" in addition to the "how". Thanks!
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