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Packt
Delivering Value and Managing Stakeholders in Agile
Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. Unlock the secrets to delivering value and managing stakeholders effectively in Agile environments. This course will equip you with practical knowledge and tools to enhance your project outcomes by focusing on value-driven delivery and stakeholder engagement. Master the skills necessary to prioritize, adapt, and communicate for project success in today's dynamic Agile landscape. Your journey begins by exploring Value Driven Delivery. Learn to define positive value, mitigate risks, and apply techniques like value stream mapping, story mapping, and Earned Value. Delve into prioritization, risk management, and Agile-specific tools such as burndown charts and velocity tracking. Additionally, gain insights into Agile contracting, Decision Tree Analysis, and the significance of William Deming’s PDCA cycle. The next phase focuses on managing stakeholders. From defining stakeholders to leveraging personas, user stories, and wireframes, you’ll understand how to keep teams aligned. Discover the importance of communication techniques like face-to-face interaction, information radiators, and Agile soft skills, and uncover leadership principles like conflict resolution, servant leadership, and the distinction between management and leadership. Designed for Agile practitioners, project managers, and team leaders, this course caters to anyone seeking to improve Agile practices. While no specific prerequisites are required, a basic understanding of Agile concepts will enhance your experience. Suitable for intermediate learners, it provides the right balance of theory and application.
Coursera
Resilience: Grow Through Collaboration and Reflection
This course is designed for professionals in demanding environments who want to move from surviving to thriving. Resilience is not an innate trait; it is a skill that can be systematically developed. In Resilience: Grow Through Collaboration and Reflection, you will learn to build a sustainable practice for managing stress, preventing burnout, and fostering personal and professional growth. Through a structured, hands-on approach, you will master the art of self-reflection by learning how to journal effectively to identify stress triggers and analyze your coping mechanisms. You will then discover the power of community, engaging in simulated peer discussions to share insights and gain new perspectives. The course culminates in the creation of a personalized Resilience Toolkit—a practical, actionable plan you can use throughout your career. With expert-led videos, AI-powered coaching dialogues, and collaborative exercises, you will leave this course with the tools to not only enhance your own well-being but also contribute to a more supportive and resilient team culture.
University of Maryland, College Park
Establishing Product-Market Fit
Entrepreneur and investor Marc Andreessen coined the term product-market fit in 2007 when he said, “Product-market fit means being in a good market with a product that can satisfy that market.” While there are ample articles that mention the term, detailed guidance on how to actually achieve product-market fit is scarce. Through our course we will explore an actionable model that defines product-market fit using five key components. From bottom to top, we will examine the layers of product-market fit beginning with your target customer and transitioning through your customer’s underserved needs, your value proposition, your feature set, and ultimately your user experience (UX). Our process is an iterative, easy-to-follow guide through each layer to achieve product-market fit. This process helps you to articulate, test, and revise your key hypotheses about your product and the market so you can define and improve your product-market fit. Using the principles of Lean Product Process, our course is structured in seven steps: determining your target customer, identifying underserved customer needs, defining your value proposition, specifying your minimum viable product (MVP) feature set, creating your MVP prototype, testing your MVP with customers, and iterating to improve product-market fit.
University of Cambridge
The Law of England and Wales: An Introduction
Discover how law shapes and sustains our society in this introductory course on the English and Welsh legal system. Whether you're beginning your legal studies, working as a journalist or social worker, or simply curious to understand how law works in practice, this course provides essential foundational knowledge. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to: - Trace the historical development of the rule of law from medieval Britain to the present day and explain how legal principles evolved to balance power between rulers and citizens - Distinguish between criminal and civil law and apply this understanding to real-world scenarios involving compensation, punishment, and justice - Navigate primary legal materials effectively, including interpreting statutes, analysing case law, and understanding how to use legal precedents in practical situations - Explain how England's legal system operates, including court hierarchies, the doctrine of precedent, the roles of barristers and solicitors, and the jurisdiction of different courts from Magistrates' Courts to the Court of Appeal - Analyse contemporary legal and constitutional issues, including civil rights, judicial review, and the impact of Brexit on European law within the English legal framework This course is open to anyone with an interest in the field: potential law students, anyone interested in law, and people with an interest in how politicians have to engage with legal constraints. You don’t need any previous knowledge or experience of the subject to attend.
Universidad de los Andes
Emprendimiento y métodos ágiles de desarrollo en videojuegos
¡Bienvenido al curso de Emprendimiento y métodos ágiles de desarrollo en videojuegos! Este curso introduce conceptos de emprendimiento en videojuegos y de metodologías ágiles de producción para su desarrollo. Queremos que tengas las herramientas básicas para considerar la creación de tu propio estudio de videojuegos, y organices tu grupo de trabajo alrededor de una metodología de desarrollo ágil. Al finalizar este curso podrás demostrar entendimiento de los conceptos básicos de emprendimiento y serás capaz de aplicar SCRUM, un marco ágil de producción que es utilizado ampliamente a nivel profesional, a cualquier proyecto de desarrollo de videojuegos que quieras emprender o, incluso, a cualquier otro tipo de proyectos. Además de una introducción teórica, este curso propone una práctica individual sobre herramientas, de modo que aprenderás haciendo. Durante el curso veremos temas tales como los roles de la metodología, sus principales elementos de planificación (SCRUM backlog, sprint backlog, planificación de la entrega y del sprint), métodos de monitoreo (reuniones diarias, diagrama burndown) y de retrospectiva (reuniones de revisión y retrospectiva), además de algunas recomendaciones que puedes aplicar en proyectos de videojuegos. Para este curso será necesario que tengas conocimientos de programación de videojuegos, los cuales puedes adquirir en los cursos básicos de este programa (Desarrollo de videojuegos y diseño de videojuegos); esto se debe a que para llevar esta metodología a la práctica te pediremos que trabajes un mínimo de horas en el desarrollo de un videojuego. Ten en cuenta que este curso ha sido diseñado como el tercero de cinco cursos que hacen parte del programa especializado en Desarrollo y Diseño de Videojuegos. Puedes tomar todos los cursos por separado o sólo uno de ellos, sin embargo te recomendamos que te inscribas y participes en los cinco, ojalá en el orden que te proponemos, de manera que llegues al último curso denominado "Desarrollo y Diseño de Videojuegos: proyecto final" preparado para aplicar los conocimientos adquiridos en los cursos anteriores. Para inscribirte únicamente a este curso debes ir a la página del mismo: https://www.coursera.org/learn/videojuegos-emprendimiento/home/welcome. Haz click en el botón azul de la izquierda "Enroll now" o "Inscribirse ahora", donde podrás elegir si deseas tomar el curso pagando por la certificación con una suscripción mensual o anual, en cuyo caso debes hacer unas evaluaciones adicionales obligatorias y cumplir con los otros requisitos de certificación; o si deseas auditarlo, es decir acceder al contenido sin pagar por el certificado o suscripción.
Politecnico di Milano
Developing FPGA-accelerated cloud applications with SDAccel: Practice
This course is for anyone passionate about learning how to develop FPGA-accelerated applications with SDAccel! The more general purpose you are, the more flexible you are and the more kinds of programs and algorithms you can execute on your underlying computing infrastructure. All of this is terrific, but there is no free food and this is happening, quite often, by losing in efficiency. This course will present several scenarios where the workloads require more performance than can be obtained even by using the fastest CPUs. This scenario is turning cloud and data center architectures toward accelerated computing. Within this course, we are going to show you how to gain benefits by using Xilinx SDAccel to program Amazon EC2 F1 instances. We are going to do this through a working example of an algorithm used in computational biology. The huge amount of data the algorithms need to process and their complexity raised the problem of increasing the amount of computational power needed to perform the computation. In this scenario, hardware accelerators revealed to be effective in achieving a speed-up in the computation while, at the same time, saving power consumption. Among the algorithms used in computational biology, the Smith-Waterman algorithm is a dynamic programming algorithm, guaranteed to find the optimal local alignment between two strings that could be nucleotides or proteins. In the following classes, we present an analysis and successive FPGA-based hardware acceleration of the Smith-Waterman algorithm used to perform pairwise alignment of DNA sequences. Within this context, this course is focusing on distributed, heterogeneous cloud infrastructures, providing you details on how to use Xilinx SDAccel, through working examples, to bring your solutions to life by using the Amazon EC2 F1 instances.
Google Cloud
Google Cloud Product Fundamentals em Português Brasileiro
Este curso é uma continuação do "Business Transformation with Google Cloud" e guiará você pela jornada de transformação de uma organização do ponto de vista tecnológico. Explicaremos como as organizações podem fazer a transformação digital usando a tecnologia do Google Cloud nestas categorias: modernização da infraestrutura de TI; melhorias no processo de desenvolvimento dos aplicativos da empresa; uso do machine learning e da inteligência artificial para criar novo valor; a importância de ferramentas de produtividade como o G Suite na realização do trabalho; e compreender as oportunidades e os desafios da gestão do custo que uma infraestrutura de TI na nuvem traz. Ao longo do curso, explicaremos os principais conceitos como computação, aplicativos, segurança, APIs, bancos de dados e a função de cada um deles na transformação digital. Você também verá exemplos do uso de diferentes tecnologias de nuvem e os benefícios que elas criaram para pessoas e empresas globalmente. Daremos a você o conhecimento necessário para liderar ou influenciar projetos de transformação digital, colaborando com os participantes certos.
University of Maryland, College Park
Entrepreneurship Capstone
Integrate the tools and concepts from the specialization courses to develop a comprehensive business plan. Choose to enhance new venture concepts previously explored in specialization courses, or develop a new concept for this capstone project. Develop a comprehensive, customer-validated business model and create an investor pitch for the concept. With this course, students experience a sampling of the ideas and techniques explored in the University of Maryland's master's degree in technology entrepreneurship, an innovative 100% online program. Learn more at http://mte.umd.edu.
Google Cloud
Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Foundations em Português Brasileiro
Neste curso, "Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Foundations", vamos relembrar o layout e os princípios do Google Cloud. Depois disso, mostraremos os fundamentos de como criar e gerenciar contêineres de software, e você vai conhecer a arquitetura do Kubernetes. Este é o primeiro curso da série "Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine". Depois de concluir todas as tarefas, comece o curso "Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Workloads".
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Diseño y creación de videojuegos: proyecto final
El proyecto final te introducirá en el mundo de la creación del videojuego. Se te proporcionará una versión básica de un videojuego (demo), con solo una etapa. Con los conocimientos adquiridos, y en función de tu interés personal, podrás trabajar en una de las siguientes facetas del videojuego: - Diseño del videojuego - Arte - Programación Acometerás un conjunto de cambios sobre ese videojuego basado en el área de tu interés. El proyecto se enfoca precisamente a que puedas trabajar los conceptos adquiridos en un ejemplo real. Dado que el tema es muy amplio, deberás focalizarte en una de las áreas, como ocurre en el caso real de la industria, donde trabajarías justamente uno de esos conceptos.
Universidad de Palermo
Tu camino a la felicidad familiar
Este curso te permitirá conocer los conceptos de proceso familiar y de felicidad familiar a partir de identificar las características de los elementos que componen los mismos, es decir: el respeto, el compromiso y el cuidado familiar. Podrás estudiar el concepto de apoyo familiar y el rol de las relaciones familiares, a la vez que valorarás el rol del dialogo para la felicidad familiar descubriendo así, la relación del apoyo familiar con la felicidad. Luego avanzarás en el conocimiento del apoyo económico familiar, la importancia del altruismo en la familia y su relación con la felicidad. A continuación, descubrirás el rol de la solidaridad en la familia, a partir de identificar los distintos tipos de solidaridad familiar y especialmente las particularidades de la solidaridad intergeneracional en la familia. Finalmente, habrás podido aprender el rol de todos los elementos estudiados para el logro de la felicidad en la familia. A partir de lecturas y videos te adentrarás en los conocimientos específicos de los mencionados temas. Asimismo, participando en foros y completando los quizzes, podrás conocer e intercambiar experiencias y opiniones con otros/as estudiantes, así como verificar el avance en tus conocimientos logrados. Conocer estos temas es un aporte importante para adquirir habilidades en pro del logro de la felicidad en la familia. Objetivos del curso: - Conocer los conceptos de proceso familiar y de felicidad familiar, así como los elementos que los componen. - Diferenciar el concepto de apoyo familiar y el rol de las relaciones familiares. - Descubrir el rol del apoyo económico familiar en su relación con la felicidad. - Identificar la importancia del rol de la solidaridad en la vida familiar. - Analizar el rol de todos los elementos estudiados para el logro de la felicidad en la familia.
Coursera
Create Your UI/UX Portfolio with GitHub
Learners will create a portfolio showcasing their UI/UX projects and deploy it to GitHub. Creating a strong portfolio showcases not only their skills as a designer, but also their perseverance to learn some new skills outside the typical purview of a designer (in this case, coding languages HTML and CSS, and Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code).
IBM
Introduction to Digital Marketing
According to Gartner, digital channels now represent nearly 80% of marketing budgets, creating high demand for skilled digital marketers and growth hackers. Whether you’re pursuing a marketing career or are a small business owner, startup founder, or freelancer, this course provides the essentials to launch your digital marketing journey. You’ll explore core elements of digital strategy—target audiences, channels, and analytics—and learn to align them with business goals for measurable results. Real-world insights and practitioner tips reveal why digital marketing is vital today and how strong strategies drive growth. The course covers major channels such as social media (LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram), email marketing, PPC advertising, and content marketing. Through interactive exercises and scenarios, you’ll practice selecting channels, aligning strategies, and applying analytics. You’ll analyze audiences using demographic and psychographic data, create personas with tools like Semrush, and evaluate metrics including traffic, conversions, ROI, and engagement. Additional resources—podcasts and day-in-the-life examples—offer career guidance, trends, and opportunities for freelancers and small business owners. Step confidently into the world of digital marketing and growth hacking—enroll today!
Packt
Pentesting Fundamentals for Beginners
This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. This comprehensive course introduces you to the world of penetration testing and equips you with hands-on skills in vulnerability scanning, network discovery, and exploitation techniques. You'll benefit from the practical knowledge gained in creating virtual environments and tools such as Kali Linux, Metasploit, OpenVAS, and more. By the end of the course, you'll have learned how to perform basic penetration tests, exploit vulnerabilities, and craft your own scripts to carry out attacks and escalate privileges. The course begins by setting up virtual machines and systems for penetration testing, teaching essential tasks like creating Kali Linux, Windows, and Metasploitable virtual machines. It also includes an introduction to vulnerability scanning tools like Nmap and OpenVAS. You'll also delve into critical documentation such as scoping, statements of work, and final reports that form the foundation of ethical hacking. By taking this course, beginners will learn penetration testing fundamentals and the necessary tools to get started in the cybersecurity field. The course is perfect for anyone with a passion for cybersecurity or aspiring ethical hackers. A basic understanding of computers is recommended, and no prior knowledge of penetration testing is required. This course is ideal for beginners and those looking to expand their knowledge in security practices.
Google Cloud
Infraestrutura de IA: introdução ao Hipercomputador de IA
Tudo pronto para começar a usar o Hipercomputador de IA? Com este curso, fica fácil! Vamos abordar os conceitos básicos, explicando o que é o Hipercomputador de IA e como ele auxilia com cargas de trabalho de inteligência artificial. Você aprenderá sobre os diferentes componentes de um hipercomputador, como GPUs, TPUs e CPUs, e descobrirá como escolher a abordagem de implantação ideal para suas demandas.
University of London
Mathematical Foundations for Computing
Mathematics provides the formal structures and reasoning tools that underpin computer science. Mathematical Foundations for Computing introduces core topics essential for problem-solving, algorithm design, and theoretical computing. You will explore sets and set theory, number systems and bases, functions, and relations—building a toolkit to model data, describe systems, and reason about computational processes. Each module connects abstract mathematics to practical computing contexts, from binary representation and function mapping to relational models. By the end of the course, you will not only understand these concepts theoretically but also know how to apply them to programming, algorithms, and data structures. This course is part of the Essential Mathematics for Computer Science specialisation, preparing you for advanced topics in logic, algorithms, and computational complexity.