Client Needs and Software Requirements

Very interesting and useful course Thanks to Coursera and University of Alberta, I have got the chance to learn more about how to address client needs and also how to create good software requirement.

Great production values and useful techniques and assignments for eliciting and expressing client needs.

This course offered me a structured repetition for a general understanding on the topic client needs and software requirements.

Of the three courses that I have taken - Introduction, Agile Processes and Client Needs, this course was the most fun course.

Very usefull gave a whole new understanding about client needs Ilovedthecourse.Thankyou I would recommend this course to the BA's and Product Managers who are dealing with the client requirements day in day out.

really happy to take this course and are now waiting for my last assignment grading so that i can jump in to capstone project :) Useful course.

I am so happy I decided to take this course.

Very informative.

Very informative!

:)) Very informative course Presentation of concepts is really good.

great cover of what , how, why , to do to get it rigth Very informative and efficient course.

Thank you learned a lot The course was very informative!

: User Stories, Use Cases, Story Boards) Useful cource One of the best coursers I have seen on Coursera so far.

touched the most important concepts like prototyping, creating user stories and removing ambiguities in the user stores.

As a new Product Manager I was finding it very difficult to get a sound understanding of eliciting client needs and writing user stories.

Also, the hands-on approach to create wireframes and work on user stories helped me learn the concepts.

However, I found the part on user stories quite dogmatic and imprecise (my opinion); the same for assignments, which lead to confusion in assessment.

I work in software development, so it was nice to close my knowledge gaps and affirm my specific understanding of disciplines I'm less familiar with.

Relevant for every member of a software development team, especially analysts and product managers.

Basics to understand software development business requirements.

I totally recommend this course for aspiring product managers Great course, love the interaction and flexibility for a working professional I really enjoyed learning.

I really enjoyed it.

I won't take a 32 questions test again just to see which answer would be correct...I really enjoyed the videos though and having the constant small questions within keeps me on track and interested!

As a freshie in Product Management, I find that I have learned it very clearly about specifying and gathering clients' needs and gathering the requirements to build the software.

It's challenging to teach and learn product management through an online course.

A product management does a lot of her/his work by talking (to many different people involved), which is very difficult to train online (it could be done with role playing assignments supported by video conferencing, but I think learning from experienced colleagues in practice is a much better way).

The quizzes are often a good way to rehearse the topics that have been explained, but sometimes feel like an extremely simplified black-white view on very nuanced issues.The best parts of the Software Product Management courses for me were the larger assignments you make that are reviewed by fellow students (getting feedback is very useful and it's also instructive to see what approach your peers took) and the interviews with experienced product managers which offer valuable insights in the complicated situations product managers often have to deal with.I recommend this course to anyone that is new to software product management and quite new to software development.

The Assignments were also well structured and useful As usual, the content was precise and simple for peers to understand.

Great course content, very well structured notes and very very systematic delivery of video lectures including timely quizzes.