Objectives
LO1 Agile Basics: Understand Agile principles, including the Agile Manifesto, and differentiate it from Waterfall
LO2 Product vs Project: Grasp the nuances between Product and Project Management, focusing on Product Discovery and Delivery
LO3 Teamwork: Learn team collaboration through group projects, covering challenge mechanics and use-case proposals
LO4 MVP & Prioritization: Acquire skills in defining MVPs, mapping User Stories, and prioritizing features with techniques like Impact vs Effort and MoSCoW
LO5 Scrum & Kanban: Understand Scrum and Kanban methodologies, including Scrum rituals and artefacts like Backlogs, Epics, User Story Mapping, and Acceptance Criteria. LO6: Familiarize with tools like Azure Boards, and Google Analytics, and apply metrics like the AARRR funnel for product evaluation
LO7 Conduct retrospectives, gather user feedback and apply lessons learned for ongoing product improvement
Program
S1 Fundamentals and Agile Manifesto. Agile versus Waterfall
S2 Product Management vs Project Management. Two-Way Development: Product Discovery & Product Delivery
S3 Group project challenge. Challenge mechanics. Use-case proposals and outcomes
S4 Agile digital product teams
S5 Introduction to Minimum Viable Product - MVP and User Story Mapping (USM)
S6 Agile Methodologies Scrum and Kanban. Scrum rituals and artefacts: Product and Sprint Backlog, Epics, USM, Acceptance Criteria
S7 Definition of MVP for each use case and respective USM, using Miro: requirements and features of each step
S8 Prioritizing features: Impact vs Effort Matrix and MoSCoW
S9 Agile product development planning using Azure Boards: MVP delivery in weekly sprints
S10 Metrics to evaluate product effectiveness and efficiency. AARRR Funnel. Analysis in Google Analytics. User interviews. Retrospective and lessons learned. Demo day.
Evaluation process
Course w/ periodic assessment. No Final Exam. Assessment weights:
• 70% Lab project carried out in a group + the final presentation and individual discussion.
• 30% 3 Mini-tests with multiple choice and um final test
A mark below 10 assigns the student to an exam in normal and/or the appeal period (30% of the mark), where the completion and approval of the group project or an individual project (70%) is mandatory.
Bibliography
Mandatory Bibliography
Title: Jeff Sutherland, J.J. Sutherland (2014) , Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
Darrell Rigby, Sarah Elk, Steve Berez, (2020) Doing Agile Right: Transformation Without Chaos Hardcover
Scrum Institute (2020) , The Scrum Framework 3rd Edition
www.scrum-institute.org/contents/The_Scrum_Framework_by_International_Scrum_Institute.pdf
Scrum Institute (2020) , The Kanban Framework 3rd Edition
www.scrum-institute.org/contents/The_Kanban_Framework_by_International_Scrum_Institute.pdf Artigos
Manifesto for Agile Software Development - https://agilemanifesto.org
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Optional Bibliography
Title: Podcast
The Scrum Master Toolbox
https://scrum-master-toolbox.org - Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4r6DQLCHDaSNjbgtZtAfUp
The 5 minutes Product Manager
https://open.spotify.com/show/3JcR7uWeJ43wEJV1Tajprk?si=MtT67kWWRZGjGpuRhucHRw
The Agile Coach´s Corner
https://open.spotify.com/show/2jlYwMiw7W13pQ3ricLEaE?si=OaXpCEUXRGSU-qbyntIy6QArtigos ? Videos formativos
Agile Product Development With Scrum & Kanban
https://academy.productized.co/courses/agile-scrum-kanban/
? What is Agile and how it works?
? Introduction to Scrum in 7 Minutes
? Scrum: Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time | Jeff Sutherland | Book Review
? Essential Scrum Crash Course in 20 Minutes
? Kanban: from Toyota to Software Development in 2 Minutes
? Scrum vs Kanban - What's the Difference?
? Scrum vs Kanban - Two Agile Teams Go Head-to-Head and the winner is...?
? Practicing Agile in a Roadmap Culture | Mozilla Senior Product Manager| Arielle Kilroy
? Best Practices for Product Roadmap | Jeff Lash
? Agile Estimating and Planning using Planning Poker
? Writing Agile User Stories
? How to Write Good User Stories
? Splitting User Stories - Agile Practices
? Who is a Product Owner, Roles and Responsibilities?
? What´s a MVP - Minimum Viable Product
? Minimum Viable Product vs. Proof of Concept vs. Prototype
? MVP: Quickly Validate your Product
? 3 Awesome Minimum Viable Products (MVPs)
? Agile vs Waterfall, What's the Difference?
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