Getting Started with Agile and Design Thinking

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Darden School of Business, University of Virginia

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Getting Started with Agile and Design Thinking

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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
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Prerequisites & Facts

Getting Started with Agile and Design Thinking

Course Topic

Business & Management, IT & Computer Science, Project Management

University, College, Institution

Darden School of Business, University of Virginia

Course Skill Level

see course summary

Course Language

English

Place of class

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

Degree

Certificate

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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.

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