Sometimes customers believe IT teams hide behind Agile approaches to avoid providing and adhering to a delivery schedule. But those customers don't understand the true benefits Agile can provide an organization, including benefits passed on to the customers themselves. Discover Agile and learn how to differentiate between Agile and the waterfall approach. To deepen your understanding of Agile, you will explore two methodologies: Scrum and Kanban. Examine how leadership concepts could facilitate or impair the success of Agile within your organization. Finally, learn how to construct an Agile market analysis to appraise the strengths and weaknesses of your organization, along with the opportunities and threats within the market. Upon completion, you will be able to confidently critique the applicability of Agile, design a leadership environment amenable to the success of Agile, and use Agile approaches to analyze the market.

When planning, executing, and taking products to market, it is necessary to understand the nuances within the roles of product and project managers. In this course, you will explore the differences between product and project managers as you identify pain points in the market. Once you know the challenges your target audience needs to solve, you'll develop a product vision to describe what success looks like. Then, you'll develop a product strategy to map your execution plan. The plan will guide you to develop a product that answers your customers' needs, and this course will help you understand ways to direct the efforts of your marketing and sales teams.

Quality is often an afterthought or simply not thought of at all during product development. In this course you will examine why quality management is critical to product management. Discover how to defend the use of quality management at the beginning of, during, and before closing a product development life cycle. Next, explore a quality management framework, using checkpoints, to guide how you determine whether to proceed with product development and how to minimize the cost of defects and rework. Upon completion, you will be able to design and implement checkpoints to evaluate your level of success every step of the way during product development.