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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

May 16, 2023

Solid introductory course into the concepts of Agile and Scrum. Enabling access to GitHub and ZenHub was a great way to experience and learn more about these principles. Glad I took this course!

Aug 1, 2022

John Rofrano is an excellent instructor and makes the topics of Agile and Scrum very interesting. Thorougly recommned this course even if you have experience working in an Agile way.

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By Alexander v E

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Jun 2, 2022

Pro-active clear course to keep you up to speed in background and hands-on to implement. I enjoyed this course very much!

By Dillon G

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Nov 9, 2023

Great! midway through I couldn't get my zenhub to look like the labs and that kind of ruined the lab portion for me.

By Nathan B

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Jun 15, 2024

The peer review optional honors assignment with a 2 day link expiration date makes it very difficult to get graded.

By OLATUNJI, B O

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Nov 28, 2022

Finally, I can learn agile and scrum development. such an informative and timely course. thanks to IBM and Coursera

By Cédric K

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Jan 31, 2025

Très bien détailler avec des labs guidés très intéressant. Je remercie l'équipe qui la mise au point.

By Jordan

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Jan 25, 2026

Decent course! Great teaching and well-paced exercises from the materials I've learned.

By Snehal K

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Jan 13, 2024

Nice content and explanation more information on devops tools would be more helpful.

By anishjohn

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Sep 29, 2022

This course has helped me in upskilling my technology knowledge

By Benjamin A M

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Oct 19, 2023

The videos are for the most part concise and easy to understand.

By rupert H

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Jan 7, 2025

really useful overview of the processes and well presented.

By Joel R

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May 17, 2022

get hands on experience creating zenhub management board

By Anthony H

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Jun 24, 2024

Some instructions need to be updated but otherwise great!

By Williams N

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Jun 10, 2024

This course was very enlightening and educative.

By Troy S

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Apr 26, 2023

Wll designed course. Very informative..

By lou O

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Jan 6, 2024

This is a very interesting course.

By Bandar m a

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Dec 21, 2021

اتمنى اعطائي شهادة اجتيازي للدورة

By M A B

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Feb 20, 2024

Good Explanation

By Carsten B

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Nov 11, 2025

liked it a lot.

By Emil H E

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Jul 15, 2025

Exelent content

By BOLI B T E

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Sep 12, 2024

Good Content !

By marlin W

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May 8, 2024

tres bon cours

By Matsheletja P

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Jul 6, 2023

cool course 🔥

By Ashish D

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Oct 19, 2023

Great course

By James T

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Jul 27, 2022

Great course

By Dhanush

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May 13, 2024

very useful