Agile Product Planning and Execution

This unit focuses on translating Agile values and principles into concrete product goals, release plans, and execution practices. Students learn to plan releases and roadmaps, track progress, facilitate retrospectives, manage teams and quality, and address procurement and portfolio concerns to prepare for full product delivery work in later units.

Learning Objectives

• Analyze how Agile values, the 12 Agile principles, and motivations for autonomy, mastery, and purpose shape a product goal and team philosophy, producing a written justification for a sample product goal
• Apply release planning, vertical slicing, and sprint scheduling techniques to develop a multi-release product roadmap and a sequenced sprint plan for a hypothetical project
• Demonstrate methods for tracking progress and continuous improvement by conducting a mock sprint retrospective, performing root cause analysis on identified issues, and producing measurable follow-up actions
• Evaluate team composition, dynamics, quality strategies, and procurement considerations to recommend a staffing, colocation/remote, and quality-assurance approach for an Agile product initiative