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While agile has become the de facto standard for managing digital innovation teams, many wonder if they’re doing it ‘right’. Twitter is full of jokes about how teams say they do agile but don’t ‘really’ do it. The reality is that getting the most out of agile is less about observing specific procedures and more about how a team focuses and measures their progress. Rather than just boring you with an accounting of agile methodologies, this course focuses on helping you better charter your team’s focus, definition of success, and practice of agile. While learning about agile mainstays like Scrum, XP, and kanban, you’ll also learn to help your team ask the right questions about how they’re working and facilitate good answers on how agile can help. 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.

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Rating 4.6 based on 127 ratings
Length 5 weeks
Effort 4 weeks of study, 2-5 hours/week
Starts Jun 26 (46 weeks ago)
Cost $99
From University of Virginia via Coursera
Instructor Alex Cowan
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Language English
Subjects Programming Art & Design Business
Tags Computer Science Design And Product Business Software Development Business Essentials

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Provides plenty of actionable information and advice for managing Agile teams.

Learned lots about an agile team and how to manage it.

Thanks Alex Cowan for giving a clear idea on how to Manage Agile team.

Now on I will try to improve my skills on LDBM (Learning, deciding, Building, Managing) for building a self-motivated Agile team.

This course has tools, techniques and a approach to appreciate and manage an Agile team.

It's a great intro for any role on an agile team.

I recommend it for anyone working in an Agile team especially as a leader like Scrum Master.

I found this course very useful for understanding how to manage a team when using agile and what different peoples roles and challenges are, which has been very useful in my current role working with a number of different Agile teams and LPO's Agile methodology, Lead team members The Assignments are vague and broad, how can we be asked to take any project and design Trello board for it, alteast the instructor can provide a sample project and guide with high level requirements for the project.Also the content has been unnecessarily elongated with interviews of industry experts , the course size could easily be cut down by half, by removing atleast some of the expert interviews The information is very useful however the format of videos is too long and boring some times, I appreciate the effort to make dynamic however I think you polish the content a little bit more.

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A few case studies and best practices helped me to compare scenarios that I am facing with the ones that I studied here and choose the options that i wodl want to explore with the team.

Comprehensive with a mix of insights from industry experts, case studies and great instructions on best practices from Alex.

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I gave the first course a very bad review and the second course an ok review.

I also happened to have to log-in in the Online University where I got my Master's Degree years ago and saw their interface is still the same 0 user friendly and a very bad feeling of impossible communication so it really helped me appreciate the effort in improving the course.

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Rating 4.6 based on 127 ratings
Length 5 weeks
Effort 4 weeks of study, 2-5 hours/week
Starts Jun 26 (46 weeks ago)
Cost $99
From University of Virginia via Coursera
Instructor Alex Cowan
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Programming Art & Design Business
Tags Computer Science Design And Product Business Software Development Business Essentials

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