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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....

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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.

AA

Mar 19, 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

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By Stephanie R

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Jan 3, 2024

This course was fantastic!! The videos are engaging and interesting, and the hands-on labs take you through a full sprint cycle. While most of this is basic information, there are still tips, tricks, and pitfalls for people who already have experience with Scrum.

By Nelson S R

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Nov 22, 2021

Well-balance course. Straight-to-the-point short theoretical explanations. Simple but still comprehensive examples from the third week. If you don't know or don't understand what Agile development and Scrum are, this is the course you should take first.

By Yawen X

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Oct 23, 2022

it was really great course-the instructor is fun, the lesson is clearly structured.best course I have experienced on coursera. My overall experience with IBM skill network coursers has always be very good! IBM sets a quality standard for the industry.

By Jane N

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Apr 3, 2023

Great course with a very engaging and motivational lecturer. I enjoy the format of the videos and summaries. I don't have a background in software development but the course has given me a solid foundation to be confident in my new scrum master role.

By Curtis H

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May 17, 2022

I had no prior experience with Agile and Scrum. This was a very good introductory course to gain knowledge of the basics. Based on how much I enjoyed this introductory course, I've decided to continue with the next course in the series.

By Adeyinka O

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Mar 27, 2022

The content is deep and rich, but one thing I'll ever live to remember is the power, the passion, and the ease in the presentation by the instructor, John Rofrano, fostering huge understanding and perhaps a taste of practical involvement.

By Mihai C C

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Oct 5, 2023

One of the best courses I've had until now. Instructor is very passionate, communicates with great accuracy and efficiency and keeps the interest for the content high, always making you want to know and study more about Agile and Scrum.

By Julie M

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Jul 8, 2022

John Rofrano did a wonderful job covering agile and scrum concepts. I loved being able to use GitHub and ZenHub to learn by doing a hands on project. The option for an Honors project at the end was great! I highly recommend this course!

By Iuri N

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Dec 29, 2023

I believe that by far this training is the best, it showed me another side of Agile and Scrum, it was also the way the kind instructors explained it, terrific, thank you so much for the opportunity and for being apart of the community!

By Dipika V D

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Dec 12, 2023

These courses gives detailed information on basics , which is very much important to move to next stage. Course videos , topics are all well defined and covered in such a way that anyone new to these topics can understand it :)

By Carlos J R F

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Jan 11, 2022

Excellent introduction. An instructor that speaks english clearly. Great speaker. Had trouble with zenhub defining milestones. Never showed in the screen menu. I could produce it in grubhub, but it seemed they didn't connect.

By Dan i a V

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Aug 7, 2023

Interesting and useful content. Clear and engaging lecturer. All very good and relevent stuff.

I had a some hiccups getting familiar with Github/ Zenhub, but as a complete newby... to be expected.

Thank you Mr. Rofrano!

By Lara S

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Jun 9, 2022

This professor was extremely thorough and provided excellent guidance for all experience levels to understand both Agile and Scrum. I really appreciated and enjoyed his teaching style. Highly recommend this course!

By Alexander B

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Dec 2, 2021

Good high-level overview for those who want to switch professions or never worked in an agile environment. This course gives a basic idea of the process mixed with tips and tools from the author's own experience.

By Ricardo S

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Dec 15, 2022

A course with excellent explanatory videos, very complete and supported by Professor Rofano's real experience. The support labs are very useful. Highly recommended for any developer or digital project manager.

By Francois A

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Apr 11, 2023

Yet another great course by John Rofrano. The course is very well prepared and delivered; it has valuable content and practical hands on exercises to get efficiently started with Agile, Scrum and Zenhub.

By Qussay A

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Sep 14, 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.

By Peter L

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Jan 30, 2023

Teacher explains all theory very clearly and also there is a lot of practical examples. This course brings a big value for myself as I have not had a n experience with Scrum or agile methodologies.

By Xandra J

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Feb 17, 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.

By Lampros V

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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 Matheus F C

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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