Get an introduction to agile product development and design thinking so you can build better digital products. Despite everyone’s good intentions, hard work and solid ideas, too many projects end up creating unneeded, unusable, and unsellable products. 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.
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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.
What topics will you cover?
- 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
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you'll be able to...
- 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.