Getting Started with Agile and Design Thinking

Online Course

Future Learn
Getting Started with Agile and Design Thinking

What is the course about?

Getting Started with Agile and Design Thinking
The course Getting Started with Agile and Design Thinking is an online class provided by Darden School of Business, University of Virginia through Future Learn. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

Get an introduction to agile product development and design thinking so you can build better digital products.

Course description
  • Discover how to create useful digital products using agile and design thinking.
  • 4 weeks
  • Despite everyone’s good intentions, hard work and solid ideas, too many projects end up creating unneeded, unusable, and unsellable products. 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.
  • Overview of agile
  • Introduction to key concepts and practices from the agile product development methodology
  • Actionable personas and problem scenarios
  • User research
  • Writing user stories
  • Strategies to enhance user stories
  • This course is for people interested in developing digital products, who are using agile methods and have some experience working in the digital space.
  • For people interested in receiving professional development units (PDUs), as a Project Management Institute (PMI®) Registered Education Provider, the University of Virginia Darden School of Business has been approved by PMI to issue 25 PDUs for this course.
  • Darden School of Business, University of Virginia
  • The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business delivers the world’s best business education experience to prepare entrepreneurial, global-minded and responsible leaders.

Prerequisites & Facts

Getting Started with Agile and Design Thinking

Course Topic

Personal Success, Teacher Training, Teaching & Academics

University, College, Institution

Darden School of Business, University of Virginia

Course Skill Level

Course Language

English

Place of class

Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

Degree

Certificate

Degree & Cost

Getting Started with Agile and Design Thinking

To obtain a verified certificate from Future Learn / Darden School of Business, University of Virginia you have to finish this course or the latest version of it, if there is a new edition. The class may be free of charge, but there could be some cost to receive a verified certificate or to access the learning materials. The specifics of the course may have been changed, please consult the provider to get the latest quotes and news.
Darden School of Business, University of Virginia
Getting Started with Agile and Design Thinking
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School: Darden School of Business, University of Virginia
Topic: Business & Management, IT & Computer Science, Project Management