FREE COURSE: Agile Innovation and Problem Solving Skills

Learn how to deliver greater value through Agile solution targeting and theory of constraints that unleash your team's innovative potential.

Innovative products and services change lives, and having the right innovative process creates an competitive advantage. Ultimately, innovation is about one thing: problem solving.

As an agile problem solver, you'll need to expand your critical thinking skills to address the key sources of risk in developing best solutions for your new products and business lines. The Problem-solving techniques covered begin with problem definition, beginning with job descriptions and applying the right soft skills to enhance requirements gathering. This ensures you're targeting a good problem to solve, and that you understand the business model. The course then moves on to practices such as "brainstorm and storm drain" to target new creative solutions. You will learn how innovation works on fast feedback cycles to test possible solutions and target root causes of defects. Creative thinking isn't a straight line, and neither should the problem-solving process be a straight line. Each course of action needs early and frequent testing.

What you’ll learn

• Delivering business value, not technical scope with User Stories

• Why innovating is the key to risk management and gaining a competitive advantage

• The best innovation process for startups in new markets or disruptive innovations, versus sustaining product and process innovations

• How to employ an innovation process that fits your business model and situation

• Using Cross-functional teams and user stories to gather accurate requirements

• Leveraging constraints to apply tested solutions to new technology and new innovations

• Applying Test-Driven Design (TDD) to deliver better designs with less designing