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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Agile Meets Design Thinking by University of Virginia

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    About the Course

    Despite everyone's good intentions, hard work and solid ideas, too many teams end up creating products that no one wants, no one can use,
    and no one buys. But it doesn't have to be this way. Agile and design thinking offer a different--and effective--approach to product development,
    one that results in valuable solutions to meaningful problems. In this course, you’ll learn how to determine what's valuable to a user early in the
    process--to frontload value--by focusing your team on testable narratives about the user and creating a strong shared perspective. This
    course is supported by the Batten Institute at UVA’s Darden School of Business. The Batten Institute’s mission is to improve t...
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    Jun 25, 2020

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    Thank you for this course. I get know experience and knowledge in using different kinds of online tools which are useful and effective. I'll use some of them during my lessons. And lots of thanks.

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    Sep 9, 2020

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    I absolutely recommend this course for everyone who really wants to develop their skill or want to learn new skills. this amazing course will assist you to understand the user in a more strategic way.

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    By ilia v

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    Jun 13, 2017

    huge course! a lot of information! a lot of useful things!

    one big wish - it would be much much more easier if you can create summaries for each week of the course same way as you did for the whole courses. It helps so much!

    Thank you for your great job doing this course!

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    By Arsalan A

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    Feb 3, 2020

    This course completely changed my way of thinking. In the end, what all-important is whatever you are building should value to the customer so for that, you have to think with the customer perspective.

    Alex is a great teacher and Coursera application keeps us on track.

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    By Alex B

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    Jul 21, 2017

    Great course, many insights, good teacher! I just miss a better integration with the forum and the peer graded assignment journey is not optimal (but the idea is very nice). If you want to write better user stories this is a great course to start with! I recommend it.

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    By Leidy T C H

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    Aug 19, 2020

    It is very dynamic, the methodology is good, the subject is very challenging and of a lot of learning, however, in my opinion it would be good to make it more practical, every week to take short exams and deliveries with the qualification of the classmates.

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    By Randy P

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    Feb 20, 2019

    Great foundation to agile and design thinking. Overall, the material was cohesive and easy to follow. It appeared that the video content and slides provided in the resources section are no longer in sync which caused some avoidable extra steps.

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    By Mariana L F

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    Oct 9, 2020

    I really enjoyed the sessions, specially the ones with scenarios with actors, made really easy to understand the methodology, I recommend this course if you work with IT teams cause it helps to improve communication and work dynamic with them.

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    By Immanuel G

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    Oct 21, 2020

    Well provided way to engage with customers. Good mix of theory and practice. Easy to understand example, clearly structured. Only miss: the skits and Demos are not really needed, altough they provide a good entry for people new to the topic.

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    By Jyotsna J

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    Oct 29, 2019

    Its a good course but little more examples and description on User stories, Storyboard would have been helpful.

    the course is extensive but concept register on mind is very little. More objective quizzes might make it more interesting.

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    By Troy S

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    Jul 5, 2016

    I thought the course was very informative and a great foundation for the new few courses I plan to take. I only wish there was a better summary after completing each week. Better material to study vs a very long document to review.

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    By Naaktgeboren 2

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    Aug 6, 2017

    Overal, this course delivers basic and theoretical concepts regarding agile. However, I'd like to see more concrete practices in real world applications. Maybe later courses could touch deeper on the practicality side of agile.

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    By Pushenko E

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    Feb 12, 2020

    A very interesting approach, I learned a lot.

    This course might be a little bit hard for a non-native English speaker (I am confident in my English but sometimes I couldn't figure out what the authors meant by quiz questions).

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    By Leonardo M R

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    Mar 11, 2020

    Didática do professor é excelente.

    Material também é muito bom.

    Único ponto não tão positivo são os vídeos que simulam as situações reais. Achei muito superficiais e não agregaram tanto assim no curso. De resto, excelente.

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    By Solange S D P

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    Oct 28, 2018

    I really enjoyed the material and the video lessons. But I am very annoyed with the evaluation method that students use, where they do not really care about analyzing the content and end up harming their study colleagues.

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    By Elisabet J T

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    Jan 2, 2017

    It is good in general.The instructor is thorough and provides lots of information and useful templates. I feel sometimes there are missing links in the explanation. The work load is fair and the exercises are helpful.

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    By ABHISHEK K

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    Dec 2, 2020

    Amazing course Thanks Cowan and university of Virginia, i learn a lot from this course, how to create a persona, how to write epic stories and go and iterate over it to make stories more powerful and better 😍😍😍😍.

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    By Rizwan Z

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    Oct 14, 2017

    This is a great course for learners who want to get a flavor of how design and agile meet. Not so much a course if you would like to create a new product. Really great for people who are already working on software.

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    By Carl S G

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    Aug 27, 2019

    Nice and informative training. The reason I don't give a full score is that I don't think the Peer Review works as intended. It seems to me that most people just give a full score and don't bother to comment at all.

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    By Ryan M

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    Dec 28, 2020

    Great course for understanding how to go from Idea to Creating actionable tasks. I learned a ton about myself from this and how I can be better at being methodical and clear with my writing and communication.

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    By Tom E

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    Mar 16, 2021

    Pretty good course. Maybe some more examples on how you come up with relevant testable metrics--particularly when you are new and just started learning about the industry your working in.

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    By SERGIO V

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    May 22, 2023

    The course is very instructive, and I recommend it. Regarding the assignments, I believe peer review is a great learning opportunity, but I missed feedback from someone more experienced.

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    By Alen B

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    Sep 2, 2020

    In general, a good course but I miss more deep information on how to do better personas. Also the examples with the people doing an example in ¨real life¨are not helping at all.

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    By RINOJ R N 1

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    Aug 28, 2020

    Learned a lot about personas and how to draft one. I didn't know that before making a product or software, a team goes through this much research on their potential users.

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    By Juan D C U

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    Jul 27, 2020

    Un muy buen curso. Útil para identificar las necesidades de nuestros potenciales clientes y aplicar la metodología ágil para validar las propuestas de valor.

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    By kevin c

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    Sep 29, 2020

    A very good introduction to Agile thinking that gives insight in personas, epic and child stories, storyboards, the value proposition, amongst other things

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    By Monia C

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    Apr 8, 2018

    The course is full of tips and tricks, and since I already have some experience on both Agile and Design Thinking, it really helped me connecting the dots.

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