Nishish Navani

 This is the final course in Digital Product Management Specialization. If you complete all the five courses successfully, the university of Virginia and Coursera issue a specialization certificate.  What I learnt: This course covers a lot about SCRUM practice, how to manage an agile team, add values to the agile methods, managing the team, 4 buckets of development, SCRUM fundamentals, execution of the sprint, sprint planning and the ways to convert a big project into small sprints to deliver faster and continuous development to the client.  My Experience: It was brilliant, Prof Alex Cowan has completed this course with amazing examples, skits and project. The best part of the course is the Spotify App example. (Spotify is a music app) an amazing case study of how they have agile methods, how they execute changes in those projects, co-ordination among different teams etc. I would recommend the course for an amazing experience and learning.  Time Duration: 4 Weeks...

 The 4th course in the Digital Product Management offered by University of Virginia. This course raises the excitement level because now you understand how to increase your performance level by understanding new concepts in Digital Product Management.  What I learnt: The course helps you understand the importance of purposeful iteration in the project. It also adds the concepts of how to use analytics better for more focused outcomes in the project. The subjects in the course also touches on creating clarity in the project and the process to do it, asking questions and getting more purposeful answers, outlining the user journey, mapping analytics, designing experiments etc. to name a few.  My experience: The course is very interesting, again I would like to thank Prof. Alex Cowan. He has beautifully explained the concepts with small skits, examples, projects (here we submit the project which is checked by 3 colleagues who has taken the course and in return we check their ...

This was the 3rd course in Specialization of Digital Product Management. This course was getting deeper into digital product management  What I learnt: The course taught me how to manage the product pipeline, do fewer things better. The course also teaches about how to decouple problems and solutions and to find the right problem to give the best solution. Just finding a problem is not important, finding the right problem is what this course focuses on. Topics like Persona hypothesis, demand hypothesis, problem (job to be done) hypothesis, usability hypothesis and functional hypothesis are covered in this course.  My experience: This was an amazing course, with every course you complete in Digital Product Management, it gets better. Prof. Alex Cowan makes this course interesting with various case studies, examples, projects and mock acts. Highly recommended for everyone looking for upgrade in skills related to Digital Product Management  Time Duration: 4 Weeks  (as m...

 In 2020, the entire world came to a standstill, we all faced loads of challenges in life, some lost their jobs, some their near ones because of COVID, some of them lost their savings, some their hopes. But the ones who did not loose in front of Covid are the DOCTORS.  My words may or may not reach them but I would like to salute the Doctors who are relentlessly fighting this invisible enemy everyday. They have got scars over their faces by wearing masks for hours together, some have been sweating all day but could not change their clothes because they are trapped inside their PPE kits to fight for us. They hope to save every patient who turns to them, and in this fight against corona they try their level best to save every human being from this virus.   Medicines, Oxygen, PPE Kits, Ventilators, Injections may be scarce in numbers as compared to the population of our country, but for doctors even a few hundreds of these is a gift from GOD to help them fight this viru...

There is a very famous saying "whatever happens in Bangkok stays in Bangkok" It was the summer of 2015' when the four of us decided to go for an international trip. The place we shortlisted was THAILAND!!! The reasons were, it is cheap to travel, the currency is not so costly and the place where boys can have a lot of fun...  The trip was planned for October 2015 those five months every single day, unexplored or most visited or famous place for bachelors to visit were the most used search phrases on google. We had planned for an eight day trip. What we did there, how we went there, I will share all those experiences with all of you in my next parts. I would like to break our journey into 8 different parts so make you experience the time we spent in the vibrant country of THAILAND!!!  Photo by Mathew Schwartz on Unsplash  

T his was second course in Digital Product Management Specialization. After completing the first course, I was energized and motivated to complete the second course in the specialization.  What I Learnt: This was my first theory session on Agile Project. This certification helps us understand what is Agile, How its managed, how to analyze Agile project, different roles for different people in an agile project. In short this session helps us understand how small is big. By making small efforts you can deliver a big project. Agile is fast, lean and continuous. It also touched points on new ways of learning, design thinking for Agile User stories and understanding the customer needs and outcomes. Agile project management also helps us to plan and use the resources effectively.  My Experience: I was enjoying it, It was a feeling of going back to school. The excitement to learn new things, complete new projects made this learning a nice experience. Prof. Alex Cowan was amazing in d...

"If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same." - Lincoln Quotes.  I hope the winners of today's election result which were held across 4 states (West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu and Kerala) and One Union Territory - Puducherry in India will be thankful to the voters who came in times of Covid and voted for their representatives. For candidates who contested but lost, have a more responsible task to keep the elected representatives on toes to fulfill the promises made by them.  The First Test: I believe all the people who got elected already have a battle to fight against the unseen enemy - Corona Virus. People have been asking for help across the country which includes admissions in Hospital, Oxygen for the patients, medicines, vaccines etc. Saving the lives of people will be of utmost importance.  What's Next: Once things improve there are loads of challenges for these 5 states to tackle, revival of businesses which have been hit hard by the virus....

I was searching for some course on Project management and Agile to upgrade my skills. After a lot of search and on google and coursera I found the above mentioned course useful.  What I learnt: The course helped me understand, how to create a desirable product for our customers. it also gave me insights about understanding the relationship between user experience, technology and business. The course also covers the idea about the how different teams which comprises of designers, developers, finance, marketing, legal, sales, consulting, support and management need to work hand-in-hand to deliver a successful project.  My Experience: The experience was amazing, Prof. Alex Cowan describes the course in detail, with examples, live demos and short-plays to make us understand the situations better. The exams and the projects are also very interesting as it gives us a practical experience of what we will be doing in future. I would highly recommend the course for people who are looki...

It was lockdown all around, when my friend suggested for the course on Coursera. It's a beautiful app with many courses across various fields for the user to learn and upgrade the skills. I took this course in June 2020.  What I learnt: This course helped me understand that negotiations is not only about bargaining but a sophisticated and a detailed study & strategy about how to approach negotiations in every walk of corporate life. The course also helped me understand different types, styles, strategies and cross-culture negotiations which have been put across beautifully by Prof. George Siedel. The course also helps us understand negotiations through live examples. It also has small tests for us to understand what we studied in the course.  My Experience: It was a wonderful experience. Prof George Siedel explains the concepts beautifully with video examples. Its not too fast nor too slow. The concepts are made easy to learn and understand. I would recommend this course...