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Sobre o conteúdo
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. 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. We’ll show you how 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 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 As a Project Management Institute (PMI®) Registered Education Provider, the University of Virginia Darden School of Business has been approved by PMI to issue 25 professional development units (PDUs) for this course, which focuses on core competencies recognized by PMI. (Provider #2122) 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.
Programa de estudos
- Week 1 - Problems Agile Solves
The practices that deliver excellent product are well understood, but rarely seen. In this module, we’ll identify what’s hard about creating excellent products and how agile can help. We'll begin with a discussion of the Agile Manifesto, introduce key agile te... - Week 2 - Agile Design with Personas, Problem Scenarios, and Alternatives
The best way to avoid building something nobody wants is to start with somebody in mind. That "somebody" is a persona. Personas and problem scenarios tie development to the end user and help you drive toward a valuable solution. In this module, you’ll learn to... - Week 3 - Writing Great Agile User Stories
Creating software that meets users' need begins with understanding that user--and user stories are a tool that helps teams understand the end-user perspective.The agile user story is the focal point for just about everything that follows. This is where we diag... - Week 4 - Enhancing Your User Story
Now that you've "discovered" your user, you'll write your user story--and you'll make it great by layering in details. In this module, you'll learn to create detailed, specific user stories to anchor your project. - Week 5 - Finish User Stories Assignment and Optional Content with an IT Focus: Strategy-Driven Process Design
First, use this week to finish up your User Story Assignment and complete peer reviews.Then, if you're interested in IT, let's talk process. What? Process? While you’ve learned that the agile manifesto explicitly reacted to primary/excessive use of tools and p...
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Alex Cowan
Faculty & Batten Fellow
Darden School of Business
Criador do conteúdo
A Universidade da Virgínia (também conhecida como UVA, UVa, Virginia) está situada na costa leste dos Estados Unidos, em Charlottesville, Virgínia. É também Património Mundial da UNESCO desde 1987. A universidade foi fundada em 1819 por Thomas Jefferson, o autor da Declaração de Independência e o terceiro presidente americano.
A Universidade da Virgínia é uma instituição pública de ensino superior de renome que pertence à rede Universitas 21. Sempre classificada entre as 25 melhores universidades americanas, faz também parte das "Public Ivies", uma rede das melhores universidades públicas do país, que têm a reputação de oferecer um nível de ensino comparável ao das instituições da Ivy League.
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