Darden Online - Product & Project Management

Specializations

Agile Development

4 courses, 4 weeks/course, 3 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 with AI for MBAs

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

Explore digital products and user experiences. While AI and 'vibe coding' have dramatically eased the entry points for building digital UX's, mastering the work of building something worthwhile and building it well is as much of a challenge as it ever was. In this specialization, you'll learn a disciplined but humanistic approach for going from idea to release.

Digital Product Management

5 courses, 4 weeks/course, 3 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 Meets Design Thinking

4 weeks, 2 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 Algorithms with AI

4 weeks, 4 hours/week

Explore a contemporary, AI-forward, product-first approach to coding.

Coding Data Models with AI

4 weeks, 2 hours/week

Build full applications with a working Data Model, View (UI), and set of Controllers (or ‘algorithms’).

Coding User Interfaces with AI

4 weeks, 4 hours/week

Learn about going from design to code for ‘Views’ or user interfaces (UI’s).

Continuous Delivery & DevOps

4 weeks, 2 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, 3 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, 3 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, 2 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, 3 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, 3 hours/week

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

Product Analytics and AI

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.