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 stars80.45%
- 4 stars15.77%
- 3 stars2.43%
- 2 stars0.63%
- 1 star0.69%
TOP REVIEWS FROM AGILE MEETS DESIGN THINKING
I would have given it 4 stars only because when stuck on something, I really didn't know who to go to but if you review the lessons, you can easily find what you are looking for .
It's a great overview of what can be achieved with putting agile into the center of discussion and why is it important, and also how to achieve those goals which are set out in a practical way.
All kind of professional should take this course. It will add definitely different point of view in your career and even in your personal life. Thank you Alex for this great course.
Rich and well-structured content about Agile and Design Thinking, shows how to approach and include personas that will somehow be touched by the solution being created, and deliver outcomes to them.
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