Agile Innovation and Problem Solving Skills (edX)

Agile Innovation and Problem Solving Skills is an Online MOOC Course, Offered by the University System of Maryland and the University of Maryland, College Park via edX. This course is part of the Agile Project Management Professional Certificate.

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Agile Innovation and Problem Solving Skills (edX)

Overview

As an agile problem solver, you’ll need to expand your critical thinking skills to address the key sources of risk in developing the best solutions for your new products and business lines. The Problem-solving techniques covered begin with problem definition, beginning with job descriptions, and applying the right soft skills to enhance requirements gathering.

This ensures you’re targeting a good problem to solve, and that you understand the business model. The course then moves on to practices such as “brainstorm and storm drain” to target new creative solutions.

You will learn how innovation works on fast feedback cycles to test possible solutions and target root causes of defects. Creative thinking isn’t a straight line, and neither should the problem-solving process be a straight line. Each course of action needs early and frequent testing.

  • Key lessons taught in this course are:
  • Delivering business value, not technical scope with User Stories
  • Why innovating is the key to risk management and gaining a competitive advantage
  • The best innovation process for startups in new markets or disruptive innovations, versus sustaining product and process innovations
  • How to employ an innovation process that fits your business model and situation
  • Using Cross-functional teams and user stories to gather accurate requirements
  • Leveraging constraints to apply tested solutions to new technology and new innovations
  • 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.

While this course will not make you an agile certified practitioner (PMI-ACP), or certified scrum master (CSM), it offers a more fundamental agile certification based on agile principles and how agile innovation is accomplished in the industry today. You’ll finish this course more than ready to continue your agile journey, which we hope takes you to the next course in the series on “Agile Leadership Principles and Practices.”

Upon successful completion of this course, learners can earn 10 Professional Development Unit (PDU) credits, which are recognized by the Project Management Institute (PMI). PDU credits are essential to those looking to maintain certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP).

Upon successful completion of this course, learners can earn 10 Professional Development Unit (PDU) credits, which are recognized by the Project Management Institute (PMI). PDU credits are essential to those looking to maintain certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP).

Syllabus

Week 1:

The first week of Innovation revisits concepts of capability delivery from a technical perspective; asking how do we achieve a project’s purpose to innovate? What are the risks and methods to be successful in delivering a defined output under uncertain conditions? Here the Theory of Constraints (TOC) is used to target innovation for maximum impact.

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 power system engineering solutioning techniques (isolation, absorption, acceleration, etc.) and tools like TRIZ.

Teacher

  • John Johnson

Additional information

Course Delivery

Online

Course Efforts

2-3 Hours

Course Enrollment

Free

Course Language

English

Course Length

4 Weeks

Course Level

Advanced

Course Provider

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Course Subtitles

English

Flexible Learning

Yes

Verified Certificate

Paid

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