Agile Meets Design Thinking
Despite everyone's good intentions, hard work and solid ideas, too many teams end up creating products that no one wants, no one can use, and no one buys. 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.
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- Level Foundation
- المدة 9 ساعات hours
- الطبع بواسطة University of Virginia
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Despite everyone's good intentions, hard work and solid ideas, too many teams end up creating products that no one wants, no one can use, and no one buys. 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. 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 to the course!
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2
Readings
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1
Discussion
1
Discussions
- Meet and Greet
2
Readings
- Course Overview & Requirements
- Get to Know Your Classmates in Discussion Forums
What’s hard about creating excellent products?
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11
Videos
11
Videos
- Why is Agile?
- What is Agile?
- Your Agile Journey
- Agile for Managers
- Agile for Individual Contributors
- Agile 101
- Today's Best Practices
- Scale Friendly vs. Innovation Friendly
- What Makes Agile Hard
- The Blue Button Moment
- Culture of Experimentation
How does agile help you through the hard stuff?
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5
Videos
5
Videos
- The Manifesto in Practice
- A Hypothesis-Driven Approach to Agile
- Greg Cohen on Getting Started with Agile
- Bill Wake on Getting Started with Agile
- How We Learn
Week 1 Quiz
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1
Assignment
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Assignment
- Quiz on Problems Agile Solves
How do actionable personas and Jobs-to-be-Done help you avoid waste?
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10
Videos
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1
Discussion
1
Discussions
- Practice for the Assignment: Draft a Persona
10
Videos
- Design Thinking for Agile User Stories
- Meet the Companies: HVAC in a Hurry and Enable Quiz
- Creating and Using Personas
- Focusing Your Persona: Think, See, Feel, Do
- Demo: Using the Hypothesis-Driven Development Template (UPDATE)
- Demo: Drafting Personas
- Demo: Drafting Think, See, Feel, Do
- Creating User Stories that Matter
- Skit: Meet the HVAC in a Hurry Team
- Skit: Dani's Meeting with the CEO
Week 2 Quiz
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1
Assignment
1
Assignment
- Quiz on Focusing Your Agile
How do you know what matters to the user?
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8
Videos
8
Videos
- User Research for Busy People
- Researching Personas
- Demo: Creating an Interview Guide: Personas
- Demo: Creating an Interview Guide: JTBD
- Demo: Dry running your interview guide with chatGPT
- Skit: Interviewing Trent the Technician
- Demo: Designing Google AdWords
- Demo: Drafting Jobs-to-be-Done, Alternatives, and Value Propositions
How do you write your best possible user story?
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8
Videos
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1
Discussion
1
Discussions
- Practice for the Assignment: User Stories
8
Videos
- Preparing for Great User Stories
- Writing Great User Stories
- Adding Test Cases to User Stories
- Test-Driven User Stories
- Skit: From Jobs-to-be-Done to Epic User Stories
- Demo: Drafting Epic User Stories
- Demo: Storyboarding an Epic
- Demo: Drafting Child Stories
How do successful practitioners enhance their stories?
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12
Videos
12
Videos
- Better Narrative, Better Story
- Investable Stories
- Bill Wake on INVEST
- Coaching for Better User Stories
- A Prototype Is Worth a Thousand Meetings
- From Design Thinking to Agile Analytics
- Designing a Meeting with User Stories
- Using "Day in the Life" to Drive Empathy
- Skit: Drafting Epics from Jobs-to-be-Done
- Skit: Storyboarding an Epic
- Skit: Child Stories and Test Cases
- And on to Course 2!
Week 4 Quiz
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1
Assignment
1
Assignment
- Quiz on User Stories
Peer-reviewed Assignment: Agile User Stories
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1
PeerReview
1
Peer Review
- Personas, Problem Scenarios and Propositions, and User Stories
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"Agile Meets Design Thinking" is an engaging course offered by Coursera in collaboration with UVA’s Darden School of Business. It focuses on integrating agile methodologies with design thinking to create products that users truly value. Over 540 minutes, learners will explore testable narratives and team alignment techniques to frontload value. Supported by the Batten Institute, the course is ideal for business and management professionals seeking foundational skills. Flexible subscription options include Starter, Professional, and Paid plans.
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