Reviews & Metrics for Software Improvements
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Reviews & Metrics for Software Improvements
This course is part of Software Product Management Specialization
Instructor: Kenny Wong
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What you'll learn
Apply techniques to measure and visualize project progress
Integrate Agile review practices to increase project visibility
Reflect on lessons learned in software projects through retrospective exercises
Improve project and process quality through ongoing measurement
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There are 4 modules in this course
This course covers techniques for monitoring your projects in order to align client needs, project plans, and software production. It focuses on metrics and reviews to track and improve project progress and software quality.
Welcome to the first module! This module is all about creating the “right product”. You will examine various ways of ensuring that you are creating the right product for both your client and your users. You will learn how to conduct a sprint review meeting and why they are an important step for delivering the right product. Then you will look at user studies. You will learn about several techniques for determining the needs of your users. The module concludes by examining how some of the big companies in the industry ensure that they are delivering the right product to their users.
What's included
7 videos7 readings1 assignment
7 videos•Total 63 minutes
- Specialization Preview•2 minutes
- Introduction to Reviews & Metrics for Software Improvements•6 minutes
- 5.1.1: Introduction to Monitoring•6 minutes
- 5.1.2: Sprint Review Meeting•11 minutes
- 5.1.3: User Studies•10 minutes
- 5.1.4: Industry Examples•9 minutes
- 5.1.4A: Industry Examples - Interview•19 minutes
7 readings•Total 70 minutes
- Meet your presenters: Morgan Patzelt•10 minutes
- Meet your presenters: Bradley Poulette•10 minutes
- Meet Your Facilitators•10 minutes
- Course Resources: Reviews & Metrics for Software Improvements•10 minutes
- Course Map: Reviews and Metrics for Software Improvements•10 minutes
- Discussion: Other Methods of Usability Testing•10 minutes
- Module 1: Supplemental Resources•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Module 1: Assessment (Graded)•30 minutes
Welcome to the second module! Now that you’ve learned about how to make sure you’re creating the “right product”, it’s time to explore how to ensure that product is “done right”. Here, you’ll start with review techniques, some issues surrounding project monitoring in general, and the Goal Quality Metric framework. Then, you’ll move on to desirable properties of metrics and dive into some key metrics for ensuring that you’re on track. You’ll finish off the module with defect analysis, leading you into getting your product “managed right” in the next module.
What's included
7 videos1 reading1 assignment
7 videos•Total 59 minutes
- 5.2.1: Review Techniques•7 minutes
- 5.2.1A: Review Techniques•10 minutes
- 5.2.2: Monitoring Issues•8 minutes
- 5.2.3: Goal, Question, Metric (GQM)•7 minutes
- 5.2.4: Desirable Properties of Metrics•14 minutes
- 5.2.5: Other Metrics•3 minutes
- 5.2.6: Defect Analysis•10 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
- Module 2: Supplemental Resources•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Module 2: Assessment (Graded)•30 minutes
This third module examines the concept of managing your project right. You will learn some important and popular project management techniques. The module starts off by introducing you to the Daily Scrum meeting. You will learn ways to implement daily scrums with the teams that you work with as well as techniques to improve the meetings if they are not working well. Then we will cover the concept of Velocity in more detail which will prepare you for learning about burndown charts. This module covers both Release Burndowns, as well as Iteration Burndowns. We show you how to create, read, and use these useful tracking tools with the teams you work with. Together, these lessons will teach you how to ensure your projects are “managed right”.
What's included
6 videos3 readings1 assignment
6 videos•Total 54 minutes
- 5.3.1: Daily Scrum•10 minutes
- 5.3.1A: Daily Scrum - Challenges•8 minutes
- 5.3.2: Velocity•6 minutes
- 5.3.3: Release Burndown Chart•9 minutes
- 5.3.3A: Release Burndown Chart - Changing Requirements•8 minutes
- 5.3.4: Iteration Burndown Chart•13 minutes
3 readings•Total 30 minutes
- Discussion: Daily Scrum•10 minutes
- Reading: Release Burndown How-To Guide•10 minutes
- Module 3: Supplemental Resources•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Module 3: Assessment (Graded)•30 minutes
Welcome to the final module of the course! The previous module was focused on ensuring your project was managed right by exploring techniques in project planning. This module will focus on an often-neglected, but very valuable tool: Retrospectives. You’ll explore what retrospectives are and some issues surrounding them. Then, you’ll learn about how a retrospective looks, along with some recommended retrospective exercises. Finally, you’ll round the module off with a summary of the course!
What's included
8 videos2 readings2 assignments
8 videos•Total 49 minutes
- 5.4.1: Retrospectives•5 minutes
- 5.4.2: Retrospectives Issues•14 minutes
- 5.4.3: Sprint Retrospective•4 minutes
- 5.4.4: Project Retrospective Exercises•6 minutes
- 5.4.4A: Project Retrospective Exercises - Readying•9 minutes
- 5.4.4B: Project Retrospective Exercises - Past•5 minutes
- 5.4.4C: Project Retrospective Exercises - Future•4 minutes
- 5.4.5: Course Summary•2 minutes
2 readings•Total 20 minutes
- Module 4: Supplemental Resources•10 minutes
- Acknowledgements•10 minutes
2 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- Module 4: Assessment (Graded)•30 minutes
- Course Assessment (Graded)•30 minutes
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Reviewed on Nov 13, 2025
I found this to be an exceptional course. It provided me with a comprehensive understanding and deeper knowledge of project management methodologies and Agile practices. I highly recommend it.
Reviewed on Mar 22, 2016
This is a great course for leading the development team but it's very theoretical. It is better to add videos from real-world meetings.
Reviewed on May 23, 2019
IT WAS AN WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE LEARNING THROUGH THIS COURSE. IT IS AN WELL SET-UP COURSE. EASY TO LEARN. THE TEACHING FACULTY IS ALSO EXPERIENCED AND NICE.
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