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Overview

Understanding of traditional software development processes helpful, not required

Duration

12 hours

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Total fee

Free

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Intermediate

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Credential

Certificate

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Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of completion from University of Minnesota
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Course details

Skills you will learn
What are the course deliverables?
  • Demonstrate the ability to participate effectively in agile practices/process for software development
  • Explain the purpose behind common agile practices
  • Ability to apply agile principles and values to a given situation
  • Ability to identify and address most common problems encountered in adopting Agile methods
More about this course
  • This course will help you gain knowledge on what is agile? Why agile is better suited for these situations?
  • We will also cover some of the most common agile frameworks like scrum and XP in depth
  • We will learn about how to apply agile mindset and finally review different frameworks available to implement agile

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Curriculum

Agile Fundamentals

Welcome and Course Intro

What software development looks like?

Intro to Software Development Models

Why Agile?

Agile Manifesto: Principles

Benefits and Challenges of Agile

Agile: When to Use and When NOT to!

Applying an Agile Mindset to a Project

Agile Frameworks

Requirements and Planning

Gathering Requirements: The agile way

User Stories: The currency of agile development

Characteristics of good user stories

Generating User Stories

Agile Estimation and Planning

Estimation Styles and Process

Velocity

Release Planning

Release Tracking

Scrum

Scrum Overview

Sprint Planning

Sprint Tracking

Sprint Execution and Daily Standups

Sprint Review

Sprint Retrospective

XP and Course Wrap-up

XP Overview

XP Values

XP Practices - Part 1

XP Practices - Part 2

XP Process Model

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Faculty details

Praveen Mittal
Mostly working as a coach, he enjoys helping organization build better software. In his 20 years in software industry, Praveen had played various roles to contribute as software engineer, principal engineer, engineering manager, product owner, project manager. Also, passionate about sharing what he knows, Praveen teaches project management to MSSE students at U Of M.

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    May 25, 2024
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    Pawan Sasane
    Agile Software Development
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    5
    Learning Experience: Yes, It was amazing experience and Ive learned Agile very deeply and well elaborated by trainer. Thanks!
    Faculty: Yes, trainer did a very good job for explaining Its well elaborated and simple to understand
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    Praveen B Sajjanar
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    5
    Learning Experience: Scrum ceremony, user story, sprint planning, daily scrum
    Faculty: It short clear and crispy Explained nicely
    Course Support: Provided detailed information on the Agile
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    Niketa Vilas Bendale
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    4
    Learning Experience: Overall good
    Faculty: good Full course is useful
    Course Support: no, but looking or
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    sharanesha babu G M
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    5
    Learning Experience: First than you for Coursera platform.
    Faculty: Faculty was good, First than you for Coursera platform.its a wonderful experience in learning platform, University of minnesota is great organization,very much good teaching,once again thank you for all.
    Course Support: Yes
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    Kavya Kurapati
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    5
    Learning Experience: Agile software development course is very helpful in learning how the agile methodology plays an important role in any cloud related projects and it benefits in many ways.
    Faculty: There are no faculty its a self learning course where they provide videos and notes to learn about and the tests to check our knowledge. The course talks from the basics to the level how it was implemented in real time projects and assignments are there to check our knowledge in each topic which we have learned.
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