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Get started with using Agile Development and Scrum with this self-paced introductory course! After successfully completing this course, you will be able to embrace the Agile concepts of adaptive planning, iterative development, and continuous improvement - resulting in early deliveries and value to customers. You will look at Scrum as a framework and learn how to apply it alongside Agile. You will also become familiar with related methodologies like Waterfall, Extreme Programming (XP), and Kanban. Apply Agile practices derived from lean manufacturing concepts, like test-driven development. Learn how a scrum team functions. Also learn about the importance of Agile iterative planning and enable yourself to write good user stories and track your team’s progress using a kanban board. Create and refine a product backlog collaboratively with the team and the customer, in a flexible and blameless culture. You'll also learn how to use burndown charts, achieve sprint goals, and conduct the sprint review and retrospective. This approach will lead you to higher levels of efficiency, with the ability to plan and execute sprints with your development team, measuring success with actionable metrics. This course is about more than facts and processes. It is about working collaboratively on a self-organizing team, coached by a scrum master, and building what is needed, rather than simply following a plan. Developed and taught by an experienced Agile practitioner, the course includes hands-on practice through realistic scenario-based labs using GitHub and ZenHub. The course will benefit anyone who wants to get started with working the Agile way or transform the organizational culture to adopt and realize the benefits of Scrum. This includes Project Managers, Product Managers, and Executives. It is particularly suitable for IT practitioners such as software developers, development managers, and IT Scrum Masters....

Top reviews

Sep 13, 2022

One of the best training sessions, very engaging and delivered in bite-sized format that is more effective complimented by multiple quizes to reaffirm learner's grasp of the knowledge being received.

May 15, 2023

Solid introductory course into the concepts of Agile and Scrum. Enabling access to GitHub and ZenHub was a great way to experience and learn more about these principles. Glad I took this course!

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By REBECCA A O

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By Michael H

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Aug 28, 2023

The material was very good and will help me in my current job; however, the instructions for the hand-on projects needs some reworking. Many of the instructions were not complete and there was some ambiguity. Also, for the final peer review honors project, I was unable to review any of my peer's links even when they hadn't expired, but the Zenhub links could not be accessed. Since it affected several, I can only assume that there is an access problem even when the student has properly shared their invite. Currently awaiting for a response from one of the moderators in hopes that it will be fixed or instruction will be provided to correct this as I would like to earn my honors certificate.

By David T

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May 17, 2024

Some good information and a good overview of the concept, but it's too sharply focused on software development. The intro sessions talk about how this can be applied to all. kinds of project management, but then it requires a GitHub account. That's a deal-breaker. I don't want to develop software.

By Larry G

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Sep 11, 2024

Quite some inaccuracies with regard to Scrum, in particular if one refers to the 2020 version of the Scrum guide. Good enough to learn the "general idea" but not reliable enough for anyone looking to pass any Scrum certification exam.

By Mario D

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May 14, 2022

a bit of a complicated procedure for a manual status board.

By Hager O

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Mar 15, 2023

i can't submit the quizes

By Tamás

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May 3, 2023

Boring, repetitive.

By Mohan k N

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May 31, 2023

By Paul R

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May 9, 2024

Great learning experience with this course, but I wasn't able to do some of the labs because the website didn't let me create an acct. Others in the course had the same problems.

By Ronald H

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Nov 28, 2023

Information seems outdated and is just a repeat of previous modules in the course. Great for summarizing but also contradicts previous modules. Lots of reading exercises contain information that is not in the video tutorials. Additionally, the exercises are highly open to interpretation and doesn't provide any real benefit as there is no guidance towards the outcome.