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About the Course

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

QA

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.

XJ

Feb 16, 2024

Detailed overview of Agile Development and Scrum without getting too into the weeds on things. Gives a good basic and I feel comfortable reflecting on the ideas that were covered in this course.

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By Lampros V

Aug 21, 2023

One of the best courses for Agile Philosophy and Scrum mastery. I wish I had attended it before the 1.5 years I was participating in sprints in my former job on POC (proofs of concept) delivery.

By Inese R

Sep 26, 2024

The instructor of the course was fantastic, the best so far, I understood everything immediately, his examples were great and easy. Great course, everyone could be like him. Thank you so much!

By Matheus F C

Feb 12, 2024

This course is excellent for learning Scrum and Agile. Rofrano explains well about it. In the course is used Zenhub, if the free trial license is over, you can replace it with Github Projects.

By Ray G

Jun 17, 2023

Excellent! A very good mix of theory and usable hands-on exercises. Upon finishing this course you can actually setup an agile scrum project and manage it with ZenHub / Github. Outstanding!

By Enrico L

Mar 20, 2024

Good introduction to agile development and scrum. With a caveat: ZenHub is changing and to complete the lab project some exploration is necessary, further the free trial actually is 14 days.

By Adil A

Mar 20, 2023

It is really a great course to start with. it really clarified me a lot of concepts that I knew but I did know their value.

I recommend it for anybod that wants to start his/her AGILE journey

By Muhidin M

Oct 21, 2023

this was one of great courses I have ever participated in. before this I have learned about agile in one of university courses and I thought I understood it. But no, I was far from that

By Diego R

Apr 27, 2022

I´m a practical Agile Product Manager, but I had never gotten any certification. So this was a perfect solution to be considered as an accountable resource in this area from now on.

By Eke O

Dec 24, 2022

Quite insightful, I recommend for anyone looking to start a career in product management, project management, or related career path. learnt to use a new management tool (Zenhub).

By Michelle M

Oct 25, 2024

This is the best Coursera course I have taken thus far. I found it to be very clear and precise. It closed a lot of the gaps with regard to my understanding of Scrum and Agile.

By Thomas D

Aug 4, 2023

Awesome course! I remained intrigued throughout with all the insight, experience and revelations shared by the course instructor throughout! A captivatingly presented course!

By María V V

May 4, 2024

Excelente, en verdad pense que era un curso mas difícil y la metodología de aprendizaje fue bastante amena, desde los videos hasta las practicas, quiero seguir aprendizaje

By Igor S

Sep 22, 2023

I would like to thank Mr. John Rofrano for the excellent and clear presentation of the course material. Not everyone has the talent of a teacher. Thank you for your work!

By Greg M

Aug 22, 2024

The course was very well structured and the material was brilliantly taught. The detail and practical hands-on teaching were very informative and I feel I learnt a lot.

By Cosmos G

Dec 20, 2022

A beautiful course well delivered too. The Teacher explains step by step in an amazing manner. I recommended this course a 100%. I Salute the team for a job well done.

By nat i

Jul 7, 2022

I had a great opportunity to get to know how the agile philosophy works and how the processes of agile can help teams to get their goals! Thank you so much IBM team :)

By Sly B

Sep 8, 2023

A fantastic course, I plan to apply the knowledge, skills, and tools taught in this course for the foreseeable future! Another fantastic performance, John and Team!

By Dr. C O

Feb 14, 2022

Very well conducted course. I had some basic knowledge of Agile and Scrum when I started, but the course helped me to structure and extend my previous knowledge.

By Evan R

Aug 23, 2022

Excellent Course Professor did a superb job of delivering the content in a well balanced collection of lectures and labs that are enjoyable to take part in.

By Sasitharani J

Apr 9, 2024

Very nice course and easy to follow. The course is well structured. Every video will give great insights. Focused learning will do more good for ourselves

By MR K

Nov 19, 2023

Crystal clear concepts with short videos. Excellent. Heartiest thanks to instructor, IBM and coursera for offering such an wonderful course. thumbs up.

By Mateusz M

Jun 26, 2024

Course is constructed in very convenient modules with some practical stuff and gives the possibility to learn at own pace. I've enjoyed it a lot.

By Ahmed M

Feb 15, 2023

Very useful material, and great practical implementation during the course. I am happy that I have finished this course and used these new tools.

By José P

Jan 15, 2024

John Rofrano is great. Is that kind of professor that really gets you into it and makes you question if want to pivot careers. Excellent course.