While agile has become the de facto standard for managing digital innovation teams, many wonder if they鈥檙e doing it 鈥榬ight鈥�. Twitter is full of jokes about how teams say they do agile but don鈥檛 鈥榬eally鈥� 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鈥檚 focus, definition of success, and practice of agile. While learning about agile mainstays like Scrum, XP, and kanban, you鈥檒l also learn to help your team ask the right questions about how they鈥檙e working and facilitate good answers on how agile can help. This course is supported by the Batten Institute at UVA鈥檚 Darden School of Business. The Batten Institute鈥檚 mission is to improve the world through entrepreneurship and innovation: www.batteninstitute.org.
Managing with Agile
Skills You'll Learn
Selling Techniques, Discussion Facilitation, Sales Presentation, Backlogs, Team Performance Management, Team Management, Sprint Retrospectives, Process Improvement, Prioritization, User Story, Kanban Principles, Agile Project Management, Team Leadership, Decision Making, Agile Software Development, Lean Methodologies, Team Building, Agile Methodology
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4.7 (1,352 ratings)
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OS
Jun 26, 2017
The course was challenging for me since I lacked the experience of working in an IT/Software Development, but I thought all the practical exercises forced me to develop some practical skills.
JM
Jan 18, 2021
Great course on how to implement Agile in an organization, taking into account Agile principles and the different frameworks and methodologies there are. A very practical approach to it
From the lesson
The Agile Team
Taught By
Alex Cowan
Faculty & Batten Fellow