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Agile Change Management for Manufacturers

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Change management is the cornerstone of a manufacturer's agile new product development process. Learn how to use change management best practices to gain a competitive advantage.Change is normal. Embracing change gives your company a competitive edge, enabling you to get products to market and respond to customer feedback faster than ever before. This course explains how to make change management more agile within the new product development (NPD) process. Learn why change management is so difficult in manufacturing, and how agile strategies such as iterative planning and modular design can help solve change management challenges. Discover how to anticipate and constrain change, and use new technology such as digital information sharing and model-based design to further enhance agile change. Instructor Mark Hechel also explores a solution framework built around CMII that can support agile change from NPD through post-launch product management.

Comparing Agile versus Waterfall Project Management

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Compare the most popular project management approaches—agile and waterfall—to decide which one is right for your organization.Agile and waterfall are the two most popular project management approaches. Choosing the right approach can impact your budget, your schedule, and your project’s success. In this course, industry experts Chris Croft and Doug Rose join forces to review the similarities, differences, and best uses of agile and waterfall. They explain which method is best for large-scale projects, which method is more cost efficient, and which projects are suitable for each style—or combination of styles. Chris and Doug review real-life examples and give frank advice about the pros and cons. The lessons are designed for project managers that know the basics of agile and waterfall, but are interested in direct comparisons that will help them feel more confident choosing one approach over the other.

Publish an eBook

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Ready to break into the publishing industry? Whether you are interested in the book or periodical industry, as a self-published author or a traditional publisher, you can get the skills you need to oversee the production and distribution process.Learn what an EPUB file is and how it operates.Create multimedia, standard, and fixed layout files.Know the key players and distribution options for book publishing.

Enterprise Agile: Changing Your Culture

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Learn how to take the first step toward scaling agile to work with your enterprise-level products.Many organizations deliver products with dozens or even hundreds of teams. For these organizations, spinning up a few agile teams is just the start. Eventually, they'll want to scale up their agile approach to work on enterprise-level products—a shift that presents a whole new set of challenges. Enterprise agile requires a different organizational mindset along with new roles and practices. There are many different enterprise agile frameworks that will help you with this transformation, but switching to these frameworks isn't your biggest challenge. Enterprise agile is a radical change from how most organizations think about their work. If you don't prepare your teams for this change, then it's unlikely that any enterprise framework will succeed.That's why this course is the first in a four-part series on enterprise agile. In this course, Doug Rose helps you lay the groundwork you'll need to make this radical organizational change. First, learn how to identify your organization's culture. There are many different types of organizational cultures, and each one presents its own set of challenges. Then, see different approaches to making a widespread organizational change. Finally, learn about the common challenges that almost all organizations face when starting enterprise agile.

Agile at Work: Planning with Agile User Stories

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Learn how to plan agile projects by creating user stories.Agile project teams create short user stories as a way to plan out the work for upcoming sprints. In this course, agile expert Doug Rose shows how to write these user stories and prioritize them in the product backlog. He also shows how to avoid the most common pitfalls with agile project planning.

Write a Song

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Have you ever had a musical idea, melody, or great lyrical phrase bouncing around your head—but don't know what to do next?This learning path can help you take a great concept and build it out into a song. Learn tips and tricks from the pros to help make songwriting a part of your life and career.Learn the basics of songwriting.Explore songwriting techniques to help your creative process flow more naturally.Transform songwriting into a career or full-time hobby.

Agile Software Development: Extreme Programming

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Learn the basics of extreme programming (XP), the agile project management practice that can lead software development teams to higher quality, fewer bugs, and greater flexibility.Agility is a necessity in modern software development. Extreme programming (XP) helps teams achieve agility, with higher quality, fewer bugs, and greater flexibility. XP uses ideas from other project management methodologies and takes them to an “extreme” level in order to achieve maximum impact. This course introduces the basic tenets of XP, for software developers, team leads, agile coaches, and others who want to start integrating XP at their organizations. Learn about the history, values, and mindset of XP, and dive into specifics such as user stories, release and iteration planning, test-driven development, pair programming, refactoring, and continuous integration. Each lesson helps you understand the core concepts of XP, so you can start building it into the foundation of your development cycle.

Becoming an Agile Coach

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Discover the skills you need to become an agile coach: a special role tasked with helping organizations transition to agile.Agile coaches are a vital part of helping organizations transition to agile. This course teaches the key concepts behind agile coaching and identifies the skills and mindset potential coaches need to successfully lead teams through agile adoption. Instructor Kelley O’Connell explains how a coach is different from a scrum master and reviews the various roles a coach plays: teacher, mentor, detective, and mediator. By the end of the course, you should have the information you need to select a coach for your organization—or even embark on a new coaching career path.

Exam Tips: PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®

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Explore essential topics that can help you prepare to take and pass the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® exam.By taking and passing the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® exam, you prove to your current organization—and potential employers—that you have a solid understanding of agile principles and techniques. Earning this certification can expand your career possibilities and set you apart in your field. With so much at stake, taking the time to adequately prepare for the test is crucial. In this course, explore essential topics that can help you as you prepare to take the PMI-ACP® exam. Join agile trainer Kelley O'Connell as she discusses what you need to know before you even start studying for the test—including the eligibility requirements and how to navigate the audit process. Kelley also reviews each of the core knowledge domains covered in the exam, and shares some beneficial resources. Plus, she goes over how to maximize the time available for your test, and what to expect on the day of your exam. PMI, PMP, and the PMI Registered Education Provider logo are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.IntroductionWelcomeWhat you should know1. Before You Start StudyingWhat is the ACP exam?ACP exam eligibilityApplication processACP audit processSchedule your exam2. Preparing for the PMI-ACP ExamOverview of preparing for the examCore domain area reviewTools and techniques questionsKnowledge and skills questionsUnderstanding metricsEarned value management and key performance indicatorsRecommended resources3. Taking the PMI-ACP ExamTest timingFinal preparationsWhat to expect on test dayConclusionAfter the exam

Advance Your Skills as a Computer Forensics Specialist

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Cybercrimes are on the rise, driving the demand for forensics specialists. This learning path will equip you with fundamental computer forensics knowledge and help you launch your career as a forensics expert.Learn how to collect and investigate network traffic.Discover how to recover evidence from an operating system.Develop your knowledge of languages such as Python.

Diseño y modelado en VR con Quill

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Transforma tu manera de trabajar el 3D creando personajes y escenarios con el poder de la realidad virtual Introducción Configuración y planificación Trabajando en Quill Puliendo nuestro proyecto Proyecto final Si pintar y modelar personajes y escenarios 3D a escala real es algo que te interesa, imagina poder situarte y coexistir con tus creaciones, caminar alrededor de ellas, y verlas en tamaño real para perfeccionarlas. El software de pintura y animación 3D para realidad virtual Oculus Quill te ofrece esa experiencia única y Federico Moreno —director de animación y artista digital— es el experto que te presentará esta poderosa herramienta para crear tus proyectos con su propia metodología. Con una amplia experiencia trabajando para clientes como Disney, Ford, UNICEF, YPF, Netflix o TVE, entre muchos otros, en este curso Federico te enseñará cómo dominar Oculus Quill para que puedas crear tus propios universos y contenidos animados. Aprenderás todas las funciones y procesos de trabajo que ofrece el software paso a paso, hasta lograr tu proyecto final.

Agile Testing

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Create higher-quality software faster, by implementing agile testing in your organization. Learn about the role of software testers and how testing can enhance your workflow.

Learning Shopify

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Create a simple online store with Shopify, the trusted and easy-to-use ecommerce tool.Want to start your own online business? Shopify is a trusted and popular hosted ecommerce solution that provides advanced store management in a remarkably clean and easy-to-understand package. You don't need to know HTML or PHP; all you need is an email address and a password to get started. This course takes you through the setup, configuration, publication, and management of your first online store using Shopify. Instructor Patrick Rauland helps you select a visual theme, set up products and inventory, collect payments, configure shipping, and manage orders with the Shopify dashboard. Along the way, he offers tips and best practices for running a successful online store.

Strategic Planning and Urban Design Foundations

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Explore the basics of urban design. Learn how to create a roadmap for growth and design healthier, more sustainable neighborhoods.Urban designers work with a multidisciplinary team to shape how a city looks and functions, helping to make it a more livable, sustainable, and resilient place for people to live. In this course, join Marc Asnis—an urban designer for the city of Portland, Oregon—as he helps to acquaint you with the basics of urban design. Using Portland as a case study, Marc steps though how to create an urban design framework, which serves as a roadmap for growth and change in a city. Learn how to take your projected growth allocations and guiding principles and translate them into a vision of your desired urban form. This includes the creation of new neighborhoods, public infrastructure investments, green buildings, and more. Armed with these strategic planning and urban design principles, you can start making transformative changes in your own hometown.

Smarter Cities: Using Data to Drive Urban Innovation

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Learn about the future of cities and how smart cities are rising to meet the challenges of rapid urban development. Discover how to start a career in urban innovation.IntroductionWelcome1. Our Future Belongs to CitiesThe big migrationChallenges of rapid urban development2. Rethinking How Cities Are DeliveredOverview of core city functionsThe problem with applying 20th century solutions to 21st century problemsThe amazing opportunity to reinvent our cities3. Building Smarter CitiesWhat is a smart city?Examples of smart cities around the worldPlanning tips for a smart city4. The Role of Data in Driving Urban InnovationData in a city contextWhat is open data?Data and the Internet of Things (IoT)Create urban innovation with dataConclusionNext steps