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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
4.7

1,682 reviews

8 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

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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This course is part of the Software Product Management Specialization
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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 videosTotal 63 minutes
  • Specialization Preview2 minutes
  • Introduction to Reviews & Metrics for Software Improvements6 minutes
  • 5.1.1: Introduction to Monitoring6 minutes
  • 5.1.2: Sprint Review Meeting11 minutes
  • 5.1.3: User Studies10 minutes
  • 5.1.4: Industry Examples9 minutes
  • 5.1.4A: Industry Examples - Interview19 minutes
7 readingsTotal 70 minutes
  • Meet your presenters: Morgan Patzelt10 minutes
  • Meet your presenters: Bradley Poulette10 minutes
  • Meet Your Facilitators10 minutes
  • Course Resources: Reviews & Metrics for Software Improvements10 minutes
  • Course Map: Reviews and Metrics for Software Improvements10 minutes
  • Discussion: Other Methods of Usability Testing10 minutes
  • Module 1: Supplemental Resources10 minutes
1 assignmentTotal 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 videosTotal 59 minutes
  • 5.2.1: Review Techniques7 minutes
  • 5.2.1A: Review Techniques10 minutes
  • 5.2.2: Monitoring Issues8 minutes
  • 5.2.3: Goal, Question, Metric (GQM)7 minutes
  • 5.2.4: Desirable Properties of Metrics14 minutes
  • 5.2.5: Other Metrics3 minutes
  • 5.2.6: Defect Analysis10 minutes
1 readingTotal 10 minutes
  • Module 2: Supplemental Resources10 minutes
1 assignmentTotal 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 videosTotal 54 minutes
  • 5.3.1: Daily Scrum10 minutes
  • 5.3.1A: Daily Scrum - Challenges8 minutes
  • 5.3.2: Velocity6 minutes
  • 5.3.3: Release Burndown Chart9 minutes
  • 5.3.3A: Release Burndown Chart - Changing Requirements8 minutes
  • 5.3.4: Iteration Burndown Chart13 minutes
3 readingsTotal 30 minutes
  • Discussion: Daily Scrum10 minutes
  • Reading: Release Burndown How-To Guide10 minutes
  • Module 3: Supplemental Resources10 minutes
1 assignmentTotal 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 videosTotal 49 minutes
  • 5.4.1: Retrospectives5 minutes
  • 5.4.2: Retrospectives Issues14 minutes
  • 5.4.3: Sprint Retrospective4 minutes
  • 5.4.4: Project Retrospective Exercises6 minutes
  • 5.4.4A: Project Retrospective Exercises - Readying9 minutes
  • 5.4.4B: Project Retrospective Exercises - Past5 minutes
  • 5.4.4C: Project Retrospective Exercises - Future4 minutes
  • 5.4.5: Course Summary2 minutes
2 readingsTotal 20 minutes
  • Module 4: Supplemental Resources10 minutes
  • Acknowledgements10 minutes
2 assignmentsTotal 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.

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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.

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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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