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Certificate of Achievement

Gwyn Jones

has completed the following course:

Getting Started with Agile and Design Thinking

Darden School of Business, University of Virginia

This online course introduced how agile and design thinking can offer a different and effective approach to product development that results in valuable solutions to meaningful problems. The course covered how to determine what is valuable to a user early in the process--to frontload value--by focusing the team on testable narratives about the user and creating a strong shared perspective.

4 weeks, 4 hours per week

Alex Cowan

Faculty & Batten Fellow

Darden School of Business, University of Virginia

91%
overall score

Transcript

Learning outcomes

  • Explain key concepts and practices from the agile product development methodology
  • Create a strong shared perspective and drive to value using personas and problem scenarios
  • Diagnose what software to develop and why by using a set of agile user stories and prototypes
  • Facilitate narrative collaboration with user stories and prototypes
  • Allow for early testing and validation by analyzing and deciding on story backlogs

Syllabus

  • 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

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Issued on 23rd December 2020

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Free online course:

Getting Started with Agile and Design Thinking

Darden School of Business, University of Virginia