Darden Online - Product & Project Management

Specializations

Agile Development

4 courses, 4 weeks/course, 6 hours/week

Transform your business using the principles and practice of agile. Learn to coordinate all aspects of the agile development process (running design sprints, managing teams, fostering a culture of experimentation), then apply what you've learned to guide a real-world software development project to successful completion.

Coding for Designers, Managers, and Entrepreneurs

3 courses, 3-4 weeks/course, 6 hours/week

For the manager, designer, or entrepreneur who is an active, hands-on collaborator with developers, learn to build working  software using HTML, CSS, and Javascript - and your creative confidence (and competency!) to engage in digital projects.

Digital Product Management

4 courses, 4 weeks/course, 6 hours/week

Apply a portfolio of modern product management practices to developing products and teams, from product design, hypothesis-driven development and agile, all at the heart of modern product management.

Courses

Agile Analytics

4 weeks, 4 hours/week

Build a strong analytics infrastructure to determine and drive team focus. Learn how to pair your hypotheses with analytics and use Lean Startup to test propositions and instrument actionable observation into everything you build.

Agile Meets Design Thinking

4 weeks, 4 hours/week

Learn a different approach to product development, one that relies on creating a strong shared perspective and results in valuable solutions to meaningful problems.

Coding for Designers, Managers, and Entrepreneurs I

4 weeks, 4 hours/week

Experience going from design to code with HTML and CSS.

Coding for Designers, Managers, and Entrepreneurs II

3 weeks, 4 hours/week

Create interactive user interfaces (UIs) with Javascript.

Coding for Designers, Managers, and Entrepreneurs III

3 weeks, 4 hours/week

Create application logic (controllers) with Javascript, including interfaces to external API's and resources you can leverage to do a lot quickly.

Continuous Delivery & DevOps

4 weeks, 3 hours/week

Cultivate a continuous deployment capability in your organization. Learn to increase the velocity of your development by improving your delivery pipeline.

Customer-Centric IT Strategy

2 weeks, 2 hours/week

Discover major challenges within corporate IT and how to address them with the use of design thinking, Lean Startup and agile framework.

Digital Product Management: Modern Fundamentals

4 weeks, 6 hours/week

Charter a direction and create a successful working environment and the actionable focus to successfully manage your product, focus your work using modern product management methods, manage new products and explore new product ideas.

Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management

4 weeks, 4 hours/week

Run your projects more effectively and efficiently through planning principles, execution methods and frameworks for scoping projects, sequencing activities, utilizing resources and minimizing risks.

Hypothesis-Driven Development

4 weeks, 4 hours/week

Move beyond implementing agile processes to create focus around what matters to your user. Learn how to test your ideas and develop a strong culture of experimentation to better deliver products that matter.

Innovating With the Business Model Canvas

2 weeks, 2 hours/week

Improve your focus and ability to quickly test solutions using  tools from the worlds of design thinking and Lean Startup to approach the Business Model Canvas and drive innovation.

Managing an Agile Team

4 weeks, 4 hours/week

Develop skills to facilitate your team’s initial and ongoing adoption of agile practices and to manage stakeholders.