Agile Delivery and Team Dynamics

This unit moves from Agile foundations to practical execution: translating values and principles into product goals, roadmaps, and release plans while building the team practices that deliver value. Students learn planning, tracking, quality management, team accountabilities, retrospectives, and procurement considerations to prepare products for release and scale.

Learning Objectives

• Apply Agile values and principles to define a clear product goal, create a product roadmap, and vertically slice features into a prioritized backlog that supports incremental delivery
• Develop and document release plans and sprint tracking approaches using release planning techniques, progress metrics, sprint accountabilities, and readiness checklists to meet schedule and quality targets
• Demonstrate facilitation of healthy team dynamics and continuous improvement by conducting sprint retrospectives, performing root-cause analysis, enabling autonomy and mastery, and selecting and coaching team members to improve performance
• Evaluate scope, schedule, quality, and procurement trade-offs—including long release cycles, colocation effects, and portfolio considerations—to make informed decisions that optimize agile product delivery