Agile Innovation and Problem Solving Skills
Innovative products and services change lives, and having the right innovative process creates an competitive advantage. Ultimately, innovation is about one thing: problem solving.
As an agile problem solver, you'll need to expand your critical thinking skills to address the key sources of risk in developing best solutions for your new products and business lines. The Problem-solving techniques covered begin with problem definition, beginning with job descriptions and applying the right soft skills to enhance requirements gathering. This ensures you're targeting a good problem to solve, and that you understand the business model. The course then moves on to practices such as "brainstorm and storm drain" to target new creative solutions. You will learn how innovation works on fast feedback cycles to test possible solutions and target root causes of defects. Creative thinking isn't a straight line, and neither should the problem-solving process be a straight line. Each course of action needs early and frequent testing.
Key lessons taught in this course are:
Delivering business value, not technical scope with User Stories
Why innovating is the key to risk management and gaining a competitive advantage
The best innovation process for startups in new markets or disruptive innovations, versus sustaining product and process innovations
How to employ an innovation process that fits your business model and situation
Using Cross-functional teams and user stories to gather accurate requirements
Leveraging constraints to apply tested solutions to new technology and new innovations
Applying Test-Driven Design (TDD) to deliver better designs with less designing
By following best practices of Agile, including timeboxes, constraint-based thinking processes, and empathetic problem solving, you'll learn how to provide a sustainable innovation environment for your teams.
While this course will not make you an agile certified practitioner (PMI-ACP), or certified scrum master (CSM), it offers a more fundamental agile certification based on agile principles and how agile innovation is accomplished in industry today. You'll finish this course more than ready to continue your agile journey, which we hope takes you to the next course in the series on “Agile Leadership Principles and Practices.”
Upon successful completion of this course, learners can earn 10 Professional Development Unit (PDU) credits, which are recognized by the Project Management Institute (PMI). PDU credits are essential to those looking to maintain certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP).
Upon successful completion of this course, learners can earn 10 Professional Development Unit (PDU) credits, which are recognized by the Project Management Institute (PMI). PDU credits are essential to those looking to maintain certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP).
What you'll learn
- How Agile manages solution risk and return more effectively
- Accurate, effective requirements gathering that avoids delusional "perspective taking"
- Paradox of structure, aka "how constraints drive creativity and luck!"
- Test-driven development for faster, better solutions in complex systems
- How to target scope to meet Performance Objectives via the Theory of Constraints
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Rating | 4.4★ based on 13 ratings |
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Length | 4 weeks |
Effort | 4 weeks, 2–3 hours per week |
Starts | On Demand (Start anytime) |
Cost | $199 |
From | UMD, USMx, The University of Maryland, College Park, University System of Maryland via edX |
Instructor | John Johnson |
Download Videos | On all desktop and mobile devices |
Language | English |
Subjects | Business Humanities |
Tags | Business & Management Engineering Philosophy & Ethics USMx |
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A must for every person who aspires to be an effective leader Good course, excellent for Agile Methodologies, I have a good experience and the material was wonderful, the topics of Innovation was update and the chapter about user stories was interesting.
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The course has been very useful in setting the tone and mind set for innovative and out of the box thinking required to be a successful leader.
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Rating | 4.4★ based on 13 ratings |
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Length | 4 weeks |
Effort | 4 weeks, 2–3 hours per week |
Starts | On Demand (Start anytime) |
Cost | $199 |
From | UMD, USMx, The University of Maryland, College Park, University System of Maryland via edX |
Instructor | John Johnson |
Download Videos | On all desktop and mobile devices |
Language | English |
Subjects | Business Humanities |
Tags | Business & Management Engineering Philosophy & Ethics USMx |
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