University of Virginia - Agile Development Specialization

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Overview

Drive to value with Agile methods and master an adaptive approach to product development

Duration	4 months
Total fee	Free
Mode of learning	Online
Difficulty level	Beginner
Official Website	Explore Free Course
Credential	Certificate

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Highlights

Earn a Certificate upon completion
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Practice Quizzes, graded assignments with Peer Feedback
Also learn from graded programming assignments
Every Specialization includes a hands-on project

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Course details

Skills you will learn

Software development Software Testing Data Science

What are the course deliverables?

Hypothesis-driven development
Design Thinking
User Experience (UX)
agile
Lean Startup
agile user stories
User Experience Design (UXD)
Agile Software Development
Product Management
Software Development
Usability Testing
Continuous Delivery

More about this course

Beyond practices and beyond principles, students will learn the applied skills that enable an agile team to succeed
While applying an evidence-based approach across the four courses, they'll practice what they've learned by creating an actionable, adaptive focus for a digital product team
Students will apply agile practices to a project of their choice or to a provided venture concept
Over the course of the Specialization, they will define what's valuable to the user, design end to end testing, and charter your team with an adaptive view of the right agile practices that make sense for them
TheyÂ?ll finish the Specialization with a portfolio-building design brief that demonstrates their learning and specialized skills in agile product development

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Curriculum

Agile Meets Design Thinking

Problems Agile Solves

Focusing Your Agile with Personas, Problem Scenarios, and Alternatives

Getting to Great Agile User Stories

Focusing on Customer Value with User Stories

Hypothesis-Driven Development

How Do We Know if We're Building for a User that Doesn't Exist?

How Do We Reduce Waste & Increase Wins by Testing Our Propositions Before We Build Them?

How Do We Consistently Deliver Great Usability?

How Do We Invest to Move Fast?

Agile Analytics

Introduction and Customer Analytics

Demand Analytics

UX Analytics

Analytics and Data Science

Managing an Agile Team

The Agile Team

Learning and Deciding

Building and Managing

Practicing Agile

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Faculty details

Alex Cowan

Before Darden, Alex was an entrepreneur, starting and selling two companies. He’s currently on the faculty at UVA Darden where he focuses on digital innovation. He’s also advises corporations and invests in digital ventures. His Venture Design framework is widely used by practitioners and instructors for creating new products in agile, hypothesis-driven environments.