Comentários e feedback de alunos de Agile Development in Practice (Project-centered Course) da instituição Universidade da Virgínia

I thought the first four courses were great. This one not so much.

It's clear that the Venture Design Template (VDT) is a living, breathing document (as it should be) and that this course's instructions were based on a previous iteration of the document.

As a result, the homework instructions will refer to sections of the VDT that no longer exist.

In one of the Course 4 lectures, guest speaker Jim Rose states that 20% of time should be devoted to maintenance of existing features - I wish this course had gotten the maintenance that it needs.

Even when one gets beyond the issue identified above, homework instructions are a bit vague.

In previous courses you could see the grading rubric prior to submitting an assignment - this helped clarify what you were supposed to submit. For this course you'd only see the rubric after submission. Often, when reviewing classmates' work I'd think "I wish I'd known I was supposed to do that too."

Overall this resulted in a frustrating user experience and a lot of wasted time.

I spent extra time trying to figure out what I'm supposed to do (I want to spend my time doing - not figuring out what I'm supposed to do).

And I spent extra time grading - it was clear my classmates' were similarly confused (and it takes longer to grade and provide feedback on work that doesn't check all the boxes than one that does).

Simple suggestion to fix all of this: eliminate the dependency between this course and the VDT.

For each week's homework assignment create a submission template.

That would help students better understand exactly what they're supposed to submit each week and eliminate the problems that arise when the VDT is updated.

I have finished my journey couple weeks ago and still wait for someone to review my submission. I am going to pay 2 extra months having finished my course much earlier. It is just not fair.

Very detailed and thought provoking class.

Interesting couse.

Great project-centered course. Very demanding, but worth every drop of sweat.

It might sound strange, but there are only a few good courses that really deal with agile development. This course is definitly one of them. I have enjoyed the format of this course and the journey it took me through. The live interviews with experts from the industry are a great bonus to the learning. Thank you Alex!.

Very interesting course

nice

I totally recommend this course. Well prepared, interesting interviews done by Alex to several professional with well-known reputation, good explanations, and well-prepared exercises. It’s totally worth to invest your time and money if you want to start in Agile.

I had the interest in design thinking and Agile way of work, this Course has helped to sharpen my skills and learn Agile in a structure manner.

Great course!

I did learned another 4 Agile courses before this course. When I start this course, it is the reviewing of my previous assignments again. It makes me understand clearly.

good

Excellent and thorough coarse. It takes a long time to complete, but it is thorough

Insightful, comprehensive, a bit dry, but worth the time and effort

This is an excellent course to resharpen your knowledge on Agile practices.

The content is outstanding. Very clear instructions and very informative, but it suffers from the "tragedy of the forums", if you have any question or is struggling with the content, you are by your own.

Nice and pragmatic! Some very interesting real use cases :)

the course is good only if you have passed all 4 previous. Otherwise it might be too complicated.

Excellent course and with milestone exercises it makes you understand the concept very well.It is better to be done than just only read and listen.It makes you do this.

Good course with decent guidance; I did not like that the grading rubric was not really aligned with the assignments. There is a vast disparity between projects, with some individuals creating 60+ page capstones which clearly took time and effort, while other projects/assignments were clearly not taken seriously. Due to the skewed grading rubric, individuals were able to spend far less time/effort completing the bare minimum, and were awarded the same grades as others who put the thought and effort into creating a well thought out project.

This was an exciting, but also challenging learning experience.