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University of Virginia

Agile Meets Design Thinking

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. This course is supported by the Batten Institute at UVA’s Darden School of Business. The Batten Institute’s mission is to improve the world through entrepreneurship and innovation: www.batteninstitute.org.

Status: Product Development
Status: User Research
BeginnerCourse9 hours

Featured reviews

SV

4.0Reviewed May 21, 2023

The course is very instructive, and I recommend it. Regarding the assignments, I believe peer review is a great learning opportunity, but I missed feedback from someone more experienced.

TE

4.0Reviewed Mar 15, 2021

Pretty good course. Maybe some more examples on how you come up with relevant testable metrics--particularly when you are new and just started learning about the industry your working in.

PH

5.0Reviewed Aug 29, 2020

Great course. It's not too self-contained, however. I understand a lot of the material makes more sense in the context of later courses in the specialization. Cowan is an understanding teacher.

MG

5.0Reviewed Jan 8, 2022

I loved the whole specialization has a lot of benefits about product management from A to Z and it provides a very good understanding of how to start building your idea and your product.

HY

5.0Reviewed Feb 7, 2018

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.

OT

5.0Reviewed Feb 23, 2017

This course was an excellent introduction to Agile, particularly for a 'newbie'. Having heard about Agile I've been interested in learning more and found this course to be exactly what I needed.

SD

5.0Reviewed Feb 4, 2020

This course really helped me to approach Agile in a whole new way. I have a lot to take away from this course. I would really implement my learning from this course into my daily work.

YS

5.0Reviewed Jul 1, 2025

I am rating this course a five because, Excellent meaterials and excelent teachers has been very useful throughout the course, the assignment are suberb and ready to make you learn faster and better

NO

5.0Reviewed Oct 27, 2018

Excellent course to immerse me into this new world of Agile. Appreciated the details and consistency of examples to build my understanding. Enjoying this journey to new understanding.

RS

5.0Reviewed Feb 17, 2021

I gained a great deal of practical knowledge that with vastly my approach to Agile going forward. I highly recommend this course to any Agilist looking to improve their skill sets.

AG

5.0Reviewed Jun 24, 2020

Thank you for this course. I get know experience and knowledge in using different kinds of online tools which are useful and effective. I'll use some of them during my lessons. And lots of thanks.

AA

5.0Reviewed Sep 8, 2020

I absolutely recommend this course for everyone who really wants to develop their skill or want to learn new skills. this amazing course will assist you to understand the user in a more strategic way.

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