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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....

Top reviews

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.

Oct 25, 2024

This is the best Coursera course I have taken thus far. I found it to be very clear and precise. It closed a lot of the gaps with regard to my understanding of Scrum and Agile.

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By Carlos P

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Oct 22, 2021

Very interesting and easy to understand

By Louize W

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Jun 16, 2025

Great intro to Agile. Loved the course

By Abdiel Q

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Sep 1, 2024

I learned a lot about Agile workflows.

By Mohammod H

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Jun 25, 2023

Very Well understanding course content

By Rahul S

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Nov 28, 2022

For scrum masters to attain perfection

By Hossein D

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Mar 24, 2022

Best agile course ever. 100% suggested

By Yura T

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Nov 11, 2021

Great explanation of the Scrum basics!

By Manuel J C R

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Oct 2, 2024

excelente contenido y manejo del teme

By Brady Y

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Jan 10, 2024

Great Instructor and engaging topics!

By Abdul K J

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Oct 6, 2023

It was very good and covered in-depth

By James L

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Jul 25, 2023

really interesting and easy to follow

By ABINAYA M

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Apr 27, 2023

The best learning experience ever had

By Heizel G

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Mar 7, 2023

nice pace and explanations loved it!!

By Tatiana D

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Dec 15, 2024

Thank you very much for your course!

By michael p

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Nov 8, 2023

john Rofrano is an agile teacher!!!!

By Daniel T

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Nov 5, 2022

It was a great and inspiring course.

By Adhwa

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Aug 15, 2022

so clear and diredted to the subject

By Rickya F

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Feb 24, 2025

I really enjoyed and learned a lot.

By Mohammad S S

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Feb 2, 2025

John Rofrano is a great instructor.

By Maria A

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Jan 27, 2025

Excellent information presentation!

By Kholofelo M

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Dec 22, 2024

what an awesome and engaging course

By ALLOBOU N

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Dec 11, 2024

Un cours tres bien adapté,j'ai aimé

By Paul K

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Jan 4, 2023

Great instructor. Loved this

course

By Le V L

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Nov 28, 2022

Very easy to understand and useful.

By Anjana J

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Jul 26, 2022

Great way of teaching, step by step