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Overview
The Agile Solutions for Greater Innovation Certificate from EdX in partnership with University System of Maryland - USMx is part of the Agile Project Management Professional Certificate.
Innovation differentiates companies in the products produced, and the impact those products have on their customer’s lives.
In this course, you will learn how innovation and speed are tightly linked, and the benefits of better targeting and solutioning in achieving faster benefits delivery. Faster delivery leads to faster feedback for learning; and faster learning leads to higher quality solutions at speed. But beyond the emphasis on fast iterative development, you will also learn about the practices that create structure and space for innovation in Agile that are missing from traditional management.
These paradigm shifts include:
- Delivering business value, not technical scope with User Stories
- Using Cross-functional teams and user stories to gather accurate requirements
- Leveraging constraints to derive creative capability solutions.
- Applying Test-Driven Design (TDD) to deliver better designs with less designing
By following best practices of Agile, including timeboxes, constraint-based thinking processes, and empathetic problem solving, you’ll learn how to provide a sustainable innovation environment for your teams.
What you will learn
- How Agile manages solution risk and return more effectively
- Accurate, effective requirements gathering that avoids delusionary “perspective taking”
- Paradox of structure, aka “how constraints drive creativity and luck!”
- Test-driven development for faster, better solutions in complex systems
- How to target scope to meet Performance Objectives via the Theory of Constraints
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Courses include:
Week 1: The first week of Innovation revisits concepts of capability delivery from technical perspective; asking how do we achieve a project’s purpose to innovate?
Week 2: The second week dives into the requirements gathering and validation process, and the science behind the most powerful requirement tool, a User Story, and how it forms the basis for Test-Drive Development (TDD).
Week 3: The third week looks at how adding constraints to solutioning unleashes creativity, luck, and productivity towards solving hard, uncertain problems.
Week 4: The fourth week culminates with the application of the TOC Thinking Processes, User Stories, and Constraints along with the use of the powerful system engineering solutioning techniques (isolation, absorption, acceleration, etc.) and tools like TRIZ.
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Duration
- Part-time
- 28 days
- 2 hrs/week
Start dates & application deadlines
You can apply for and start this programme anytime.
Language
English
Delivered
Online
- Self-paced
Disciplines
Project Management Management Studies Innovation Management View 289 other Short Courses in Management Studies in United StatesExplore more key information
Visit university websiteAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
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General requirements
Level: Advanced
- Prerequisites: None
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