Beyond practices and beyond principles, you'll learn the applied skills that enable an agile team to succeed. While applying an evidence-based approach across the four courses, you'll practice what you've learned by creating an actionable, adaptive focus for a digital product team.
Agile Development Specialization
Agile Development Specialization
Drive to Value with Agile Methods. Master an adaptive approach to product development
Instructor: Alex Cowan
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Beginner level
Recommended experience
1 month at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
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What you'll learn
How to determine what's valuable to a user early by focusing your team on testable narratives and creating a strong shared perspective
How to drive a focus on outcomes over outputs by facilitating a culture of experimentation and a test-driven, results-driven approach to agile
How to charter and focus an analytics (and data science) program that enhances your core objectives
How to iteratively identify and test the right agile practices from leading frameworks like scrum, XP, and kanban to your team's work
Overview
Skills you'll gain
- Agile Methodology
- Analytics
- Peer Review
- Design Thinking
- Agile Project Management
- Team Performance Management
- Usability Testing
- Persona (User Experience)
- Agile Software Development
- Team Management
- Customer Analysis
- Persona Development
- Team Building
- Sprint Planning
- Product Testing
- Agile Product Development
- Product Development
- User Story
- Continuous Delivery
- Business Analytics
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Specialization - 4 course series
What you'll 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'll gain
User Story, Persona Development, Agile Methodology, Agile Product Development, Design Thinking, Discussion Facilitation, Product Improvement, User Research, Agile Software Development, Product Development, User Centered Design, Innovation, Software Development, Testability, Product Design, and Product Management
What you'll learn
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
Skills you'll gain
DevOps, Prototyping, Product Testing, Usability Testing, Continuous Delivery, Lean Methodologies, Agile Methodology, Agile Product Development, Innovation, User Research, and Product Development
What you'll learn
How to naturally, habitually tie your team’s work to actionable analytics that help you drive to user value.
How to pair your hypotheses on customer personas and problem with analytics.
How to test propositions (a la Lean Startup) so you don’t build features no one wants.
How to instrument actionable observation into everything you build (a la Lean UX).
Skills you'll gain
Data Science, Agile Methodology, Usability Testing, Customer Insights, Product Management, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Predictive Analytics, A/B Testing, Customer Analysis, Product Testing, Demand Planning, Agile Software Development, Software Development, User Experience, Analytics, and Business Analytics
What you'll learn
How to select and test agile practices to adaptively improve your team’s practice of agile
How to create an agile team charter that aligns your team’s focus with company strategy while leaving it free to work creatively
How to facilitate retrospectives with your team to iteratively, collaboratively improve your practice of agile
How to support your team’s transition to agile
Skills you'll gain
Agile Methodology, Backlogs, Kanban Principles, Agile Project Management, Prioritization, Lean Methodologies, Team Performance Management, Team Management, Team Building, Process Improvement, Selling Techniques, Discussion Facilitation, Agile Software Development, Team Leadership, Goal Setting, Innovation, Sales Presentation, and Sprint Retrospectives
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Frequently asked questions
The Digital Product Management Specialization is a superset of the Agile specialization- you've already earned it.
You may earn Project Management Institute (PMI) professional development units (PDUs) and Contact Hours for completing courses in the specialization. To do so, log in to PMI to access your account and submit a report.
At the end of the specialization, you’ll be able to:
Explain how key agile methods fit into best current practices across software engineering, general business, and product design; and how those matter for your particular project
Apply product design best practices to your project through user stories, prototypes, and narrative collaboration
Focus your work on outcomes (vs. output) with hypothesis-driven development
Introduce agile practices to your team & customers on an incremental, success basis
Integrate your activities across development, QA, and operations
Conduct phase-appropriate usability testing
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