Course: Getting Started with Agile and Design Thinking

Thank you all for your hard work and participation during these four weeks. Your involvement in this course made for a richer and deeper learning experience. What You Have Achieved …

Based on the knowledge you have gained in this course, think about: What are your 2-3 key takeaways from this course? How will you apply these 2-3 key takeaways to …

In this video, a skit is provided to show you how to come up with child stories. After finishing this video, you’ve now watched skits on drafting epics from problem …

In this video, Alex discusses how to write user stories. If you would like to read the text version of the material that Alex covers during Week 4 for creating …

As you watch this video, think about how you can tie the user stories back to the work you’ve already done in this course to help you understand your users …

During Week 3 you learned how to create software that meets users’ need, and how that begins with understanding that user–and user stories are a tool that helps teams understand …

In this video, Alex explains how to supplement your interview guide with questions that are specific to your problem hypothesis. If you would like to read the text version of …

In this video, Alex explains how to go out and talk to real users and customers quickly and effectively to understand what’s going to be valuable to them. If you …

In this video, Alex discusses how to make research a natural part of your everyday activities, and he discusses the importance of looking at personas and problems as hypotheses. As …

During Week 2, you learned how to develop personas, problem scenarios, and alternatives using best practices from design thinking. This is important because the best way to avoid building something …

Follow along as Alex demos use of the Venture Design framework. If you would like to use the template online and make your own working copy, then visit the website …

In this video, Alex explains personas and the practice of design thinking. While watching the video, think about the experiences you’ve had with creating personas and if they were in …

Alex discusses in this video what agile is. As you listen to video, think about why it would be useful to practice agile in your workplace/position and how you could …

The practices that deliver excellent product are well understood, but rarely seen. During Week 1, you identified what’s hard about creating excellent products and how agile can help. You learned …

In this video, Alex further discusses the manifesto of agile. If you would like to read over the manifesto, please visit the website below: Agile Manifesto