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Managing an Agile Team
  • Level Foundation
  • المدة 11 ساعات hours
  • الطبع بواسطة University of Virginia
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While agile has become the de facto standard for managing digital innovation teams, many wonder if they're doing it "right'. Twitter is full of jokes about how teams say they do agile but don't "really' do it. The reality is that getting the most out of agile is less about observing specific procedures and more about how a team focuses and measures their progress. Rather than just boring you with an accounting of agile methodologies, this course focuses on helping you better charter your team's focus, definition of success, and practice of agile. While learning about agile mainstays like Scrum, XP, and kanban, you'll also learn to help your team ask the right questions about how they're working and facilitate good answers on how agile can help. This course is supported by the Batten Institute at UVA's Darden School of Business. The Batten Institute's mission is to improve the world through entrepreneurship and innovation: www.batteninstitute.org.

الوحدات

Welcome!

    • 2 Readings
    • 1 Discussion
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1 Discussions

  • Meet and Greet

2 Readings

  • Course Overview & Requirements
  • Make Discussion Forums Work for You

What does it mean to manage with agile?

    • 6 Videos
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6 Videos

  • Managing with Agile
  • A Successful Practice of Agile?
  • Unpacking the Jobs of Software Development
  • David Bland on Agile & Lean Startup
  • Agile at Spotify: Part 1
  • Agile at Spotify: Part 2

How do you facilitate alignment?

    • 8 Videos
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8 Videos

  • Facilitating Alignment
  • The Business Model Canvas - Proposition Design & Revenue Drivers
  • The Business Model Canvas - Customer Experience
  • The Business Model Canvas - Business Model Type & Cost Drivers
  • Achieving Alignment
  • Introducing the Corporate Innovation Canvas
  • Using the Google Slides Templates
  • Your Agile Team Charter

What are the leading agile methodologies?

    • 6 Videos
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Week 1 Quiz: The Agile Team

6 Videos

  • Scrum Fundamentals: Roles
  • Scrum Fundamentals: Phases
  • Scrum Fundamentals: Burndown
  • XP Fundamentals: Learning and Deciding
  • XP Fundamentals: Building and Managing
  • Kanban Fundamentals

Learning

    • 9 Videos
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9 Videos

  • Your ATM: The Learning Machine
  • Learning Antipatterns
  • Good Inputs
  • Good Collaboration
  • David Chait on Learning What’s Valuable
  • Agile Methodologies and the Job of Learning
  • Skit: Grooming the Story Map
  • The Limits of Good Inputs
  • Bill Wake on Acceptance Testing

Deciding

    • 12 Videos
    • 1 Discussion
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Week 2 Quiz: Learning and Deciding

1 Discussions

  • Slicing the lasagna?

12 Videos

  • Valuable Decisions
  • Slicing the Lasagna
  • Managing Work in Progress: Part 1
  • Managing Work in Progress: Part 2
  • The Quagmire of Estimation, the Power of Flow
  • Demo: Using Trello for Agile
  • Bill Wake on Estimates and Prioritization
  • Greg Cohen on User Stories
  • Bill Wake on Burndown
  • Greg Cohen on Prioritization
  • Agile Methodologies and the Job of Deciding
  • Skit: Iteration Planning

Building

    • 7 Videos
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7 Videos

  • Building Software with Agile
  • The New Awesome: The Jobs of Testing & Releasing
  • XP on Writing Software: Part 1
  • XP on Writing Software: Part 2
  • Bill Wake on YAGNI
  • Bill Wake on Integrated QA
  • Generative AI and the Job of Building

Managing

    • 16 Videos
    • 1 Discussion
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Week 3 Quiz: Building and Managing

1 Discussions

  • Siloed vs. interdisciplinary teams?

16 Videos

  • The Agile Manager
  • Creating an Agile-Friendly Environment
  • Skit: A Developer at Work
  • Bill Wake on Self-Organization
  • Bill Wake on Support Escalations
  • International and Distributed Teams
  • Skit: Retrospective #6
  • Agile Teams Meet Waterfall Processes
  • Greg Cohen on Software Development
  • Agile Product Teams Meet Big Customer
  • Working with Big Customers: Keeping the Initiative
  • Working with Big Customers: Accommodating Customer Variations
  • Roadmaps & Stakeholder Management
  • Managing to Outcomes
  • Skit: Big Meeting with Marla
  • David Chait on Using Data with Clients

Introducing & Scaling Agile

    • 5 Videos
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5 Videos

  • Getting Started
  • Yael Grushka-Cockayne on Transitioning from Traditional Project Management
  • Spotify: Scaling Agile
  • Salesforce: The Big Plunge
  • Yael Grushka-Cockayne on Project Managers and Agile

Planning an Iteration Assignment

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 PeerReview
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1 Peer Review

  • Positioning Statement & Focal Questions

1 Videos

  • Final Thoughts

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"Managing an Agile Team" is a foundational course in Business & Management, designed to enhance your team's focus, success definition, and agile practice. Led by Coursera and supported by UVA's Darden School of Business, it covers agile methodologies like Scrum, XP, and Kanban. Ideal for those wanting to improve agile implementation, the 660-minute course is available via a Starter subscription. Perfect for business professionals and managers aiming to harness agile for digital innovation.

Alex Cowan
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Alex Cowan