Introduction to Agile

This course is a part of Introduction to Agile Product Management, a 2-course Professional Certificate series from edX.

Methodologies are about driving valuable ideas to market in a more predictable way. Yet from our experience working with organizations across the globe, we’ve seen that most people are merely ‘comfortable’ with methodologies, rather than completely sold on them. Why is that?

In this introductory course, we will offer you a different way to approach Agile methodologies – tackling why they’re often misunderstood and how to make them work better for you and your teams.

We focus on changes you can make today that will make a real impact. Using work-based activities and templates, you’ll gain practical guidance that can be applied immediately to change how you approach Agile, your work and lead you toward better, more impactful outcomes.

This course is right for you if you are:

beginning your learning journey in agility and / or product management,

interested in product organizations, or

working with or striving to lead agile teams.

What you'll learn

• On completion of this course, participants will be able to confidently:
• Understand Agile beyond the typical methodologies, including Emergn’s approach: Value, Flow, Quality ® (VFQ) and how it can help you deliver better business outcomes.
• Recognize how the fast-paced modern environment is impacting how we approach work.
• Associate the impact our biases and heuristics have in our work.
• Explain the business benefits of changing to a discovery / flexible mindset.
• Understand how to set goals within your context.
• Recognize the importance of the customer in your work and how value is defined.
• Identify why you should organize your work around value.
• Understand the value of experimentation.
• Identify why visualization is key to navigating complexity.
• Understand how you can optimize the flow of work end-to-end.
• Define what quality means and why you need feedback in your work.