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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Course Overview

Getting Started with Agile and Design Thinking certification course is a small one-month online course designed by the Darden School of Business, the University of Virginia specifically for the FutureLearn website. If candidates have the mindset of creating new digital products with good intentions with the use of Agile, and Design Thinking then this is the right kind of course for them. This weekly course is a part of the Business & Management category course on FutureLearn.

There are endless projects that often turn out to be unsuccessful despite the people’s proper ideas or hard work which often become unsellable but always this will not have to be the case. So to make a difference, candidates must be able to use a new approach to the development of a product so that meaningful solutions can be offered by them, and this Getting Started with Agile and Design Thinking certification syllabus does the same.

In the Getting Started with Agile and Design Thinking training, candidates can determine what exactly is valuable in terms of using early in a particular product development segment. This can be done by focusing on the team’s research, and writing stories. 

The Highlights

  • Course on agile, and design thinking
  • 4 weeks of online training
  • Classes for 4 hours
  • Weekly sessions held
  • FutureLearn certification provided
  • Get the experience of self-learning

Programme Offerings

  • 4 Weeks Course
  • Online Course
  • 4 Hours Weekly Sessions
  • Certificate of completion
  • Progress Mapping
  • Global Classroom
  • self paced course

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
INR 2763yesFuturelearn

When a candidate wants no certificate then candidates can join the course’s free version and receive only limited time access for 6 weeks. But if candidates want to go ahead in their careers with the certificate then they have to pay either $74 or $279.99 as the Getting Started with Agile and Design Thinking certification fee. There are some differences in the fee because one offers more benefits than the other one. So candidates can pick according to their preferences.

Getting Started with Agile and Design Thinking Fee Structure

Description

Amount

Limited Access

Free

Subscribe & save

Rs 6,500 for one year

Buy this course(One off Payment)Rs 2,763.36 

Eligibility Criteria

Educational Qualification

  • No fixed set of educational qualifications for the candidates are specified.

Work Experience

  • Whether candidates have or don’t have any professional experience of working are eligible though people with experience in a digital environment working then can be preferred.

Certification Qualifying Details

  • Candidates receiving the Getting Started with Agile and Design Thinking certification by FutureLearn have to finish off the week-wise modules, and their assessments in the form of quizzes.

What you will learn

Design thinking

With the ending of the course, candidates will be learning the things written below:

  • Candidates will be explaining major concepts of product development methodology using agile techniques.
  • Candidates will be able to create a shared perspective towards value creation by using problem scenarios, and personas.
  • Learners will also be able to diagnose the different software that is required to develop prototypes of agile user stories
  • Candidates can easily make a narrative collaboration with the prototypes created.
  • The learners can predict how important it is to be allowed for early testing and even validation by analyzing.

Who it is for

If students are interested in digital product development by making use of agile methods or have a certain experience of working within a digital environment then this course will best suit them. These students, if interested, will also receive 25 professional development units (PDUs) as approved by PMI.


Admission Details

Below are some steps that are involved in the admission process for this course:

Step 1: As a starting point, candidates must begin by visiting the website of the course.

Step 2: Next step for the candidates is to start the admission process by locating, and clicking on the button ‘Join the course for free.

Step 3: When this button is clicked, a new webpage is bound to open.

Step 4: The page contains both the buttons, ‘Sign in’ and  ‘Register’.

Step 5: The candidates can either choose to log in using old account credentials or make a fresh FutureLearn student account to complete admission.

Application Details

To get done with the registration process candidates don’t need to face any hassle of filing an application or a registration form. Once they make a new FutureLearn account, they can go ahead with their learnings. The process of creating this account takes only a few minutes. One can complete it with their Facebook or Gmail accounts, or even write down some simple details of themselves like age, first name, and some others.

The Syllabus

Instructors

UVA Charlottesville Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)

1: Which institute has endorsed this course?

The course is endorsed by the prestigious Project Management Institute. 

2: Who holds the course syllabus sessions for the Getting Started with Agile and Design Thinking certification course?

Alex Cowan who is an entrepreneur holds the course syllabus sessions.

3: Which institute is in the power of making changes to the course curriculum?

The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business is in the power of changing the course curriculum.

4: Are design thinking, and agile the same concepts?

There is a basic difference between the two, agile is for solving predefined problems while design thinking is finding the correct problems that can be solved.

5: Does making an account require any fee to be paid to FutureLearn?

The account creation on FutureLearn requires a nil amount of money.

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