This course covers techniques for monitoring your projects in order to align client needs, project plans, and software production. It focuses on metrics and reviews to track and improve project progress and software quality.
This course is part of the Software Product Management Specialization
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Try Coursera for BusinessWhat you will learn
Apply techniques to measure and visualize project progress
Integrate Agile review practices to increase project visibility
Reflect on lessons learned in software projects through retrospective exercises
Improve project and process quality through ongoing measurement
Skills you will gain
- Software Metric
- Agile Software Development
- Software Project Management
- Software Metrics
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Course 5 of 6 in the
Approx. 8 hours to complete
English
Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish
Could your company benefit from training employees on in-demand skills?
Try Coursera for Business
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University of Alberta
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
3 hours to complete
Module 1: Right Product
Welcome to the first module! This module is all about creating the “right product”. You will examine various ways of ensuring that you are creating the right product for both your client and your users. You will learn how to conduct a sprint review meeting and why they are an important step for delivering the right product. Then you will look at user studies. You will learn about several techniques for determining the needs of your users. The module concludes by examining how some of the big companies in the industry ensure that they are delivering the right product to their users.
3 hours to complete
7 videos (Total 63 min), 7 readings, 1 quiz
2 hours to complete
Module 2: Done Right
Welcome to the second module! Now that you’ve learned about how to make sure you’re creating the “right product”, it’s time to explore how to ensure that product is “done right”. Here, you’ll start with review techniques, some issues surrounding project monitoring in general, and the Goal Quality Metric framework. Then, you’ll move on to desirable properties of metrics and dive into some key metrics for ensuring that you’re on track. You’ll finish off the module with defect analysis, leading you into getting your product “managed right” in the next module.
2 hours to complete
7 videos (Total 59 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz
2 hours to complete
Module 3: Managed Right
This third module examines the concept of managing your project right. You will learn some important and popular project management techniques. The module starts off by introducing you to the Daily Scrum meeting. You will learn ways to implement daily scrums with the teams that you work with as well as techniques to improve the meetings if they are not working well. Then we will cover the concept of Velocity in more detail which will prepare you for learning about burndown charts. This module covers both Release Burndowns, as well as Iteration Burndowns. We show you how to create, read, and use these useful tracking tools with the teams you work with. Together, these lessons will teach you how to ensure your projects are “managed right”.
2 hours to complete
6 videos (Total 54 min), 3 readings, 1 quiz
2 hours to complete
Module 4: Project Retrospectives
Welcome to the final module of the course! The previous module was focused on ensuring your project was managed right by exploring techniques in project planning. This module will focus on an often-neglected, but very valuable tool: Retrospectives. You’ll explore what retrospectives are and some issues surrounding them. Then, you’ll learn about how a retrospective looks, along with some recommended retrospective exercises. Finally, you’ll round the module off with a summary of the course!
2 hours to complete
8 videos (Total 49 min), 2 readings, 2 quizzes
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TOP REVIEWS FROM REVIEWS & METRICS FOR SOFTWARE IMPROVEMENTS
by RKApr 10, 2016
It's a great course! Highly practical guide on how to develop the right product, done right, and managed right.
by ACFeb 21, 2016
Very nice content and presented so nicely. Must read and highly recommended course for all managers and business analysts.
by MAJul 26, 2020
Kudos to all the tutors! Really insightful and amazing course. It taught me about the best practices for software project planning, and management.
by VGMar 22, 2016
This is a great course for leading the development team but it's very theoretical.
It is better to add videos from real-world meetings.
About the Software Product Management Specialization
In this Software Product Management Specialization, you will master Agile software management practices to lead a team of developers and interact with clients. In the final Capstone Project, you will practice and apply management techniques to realistic scenarios that you will face as a Software Product Manager. You will have the opportunity to share your experiences and learn from the insights of others as part of a Software Product Management
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