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Get started with using Agile Development and Scrum with this self-paced introductory course! After successfully completing this course, you will be able to embrace the Agile concepts of adaptive planning, iterative development, and continuous improvement - resulting in early deliveries and value to customers. You will look at Scrum as a framework and learn how to apply it alongside Agile. You will also become familiar with related methodologies like Waterfall, Extreme Programming (XP), and Kanban. Apply Agile practices derived from lean manufacturing concepts, like test-driven development. Learn how a scrum team functions. Also learn about the importance of Agile iterative planning and enable yourself to write good user stories and track your team’s progress using a kanban board. Create and refine a product backlog collaboratively with the team and the customer, in a flexible and blameless culture. You'll also learn how to use burndown charts, achieve sprint goals, and conduct the sprint review and retrospective. This approach will lead you to higher levels of efficiency, with the ability to plan and execute sprints with your development team, measuring success with actionable metrics. This course is about more than facts and processes. It is about working collaboratively on a self-organizing team, coached by a scrum master, and building what is needed, rather than simply following a plan. Developed and taught by an experienced Agile practitioner, the course includes hands-on practice through realistic scenario-based labs using GitHub and ZenHub. The course will benefit anyone who wants to get started with working the Agile way or transform the organizational culture to adopt and realize the benefits of Scrum. This includes Project Managers, Product Managers, and Executives. It is particularly suitable for IT practitioners such as software developers, development managers, and IT Scrum Masters....

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Mar 19, 2024

Good introduction to agile development and scrum. With a caveat: ZenHub is changing and to complete the lab project some exploration is necessary, further the free trial actually is 14 days.

Jul 23, 2025

The teaching method was quite interesting and easy to follow. If most courses on Coursera applied this method, more participants would be able to maximise the benefit of these courses.

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By Paul R

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May 9, 2024

Great learning experience with this course, but I wasn't able to do some of the labs because the website didn't let me create an acct. Others in the course had the same problems.

By Isabel K

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Dec 27, 2024

Die Übersetzung ist nicht so gut. Auch wird viel über Programmieren gesprochen, was für mich einfach nicht infrage kommt.

By sebastian g

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Mar 18, 2025

Mala traducción

By Ronald H

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Nov 28, 2023

Information seems outdated and is just a repeat of previous modules in the course. Great for summarizing but also contradicts previous modules. Lots of reading exercises contain information that is not in the video tutorials. Additionally, the exercises are highly open to interpretation and doesn't provide any real benefit as there is no guidance towards the outcome.