Building Agile Teams

Learn agile mindsets and practices to build collaborative product and UX teams that efficiently deliver high-quality designs, solutions, and exceptional value.

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The success of agile teams isn't determined by how well they follow ceremonies, but by their ability to embrace the right mindset. This course cuts through theory and buzzwords to reveal what truly makes agile work in real-world product and UX environments.

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, cross-functional collaboration between product, design, and development teams is no longer optional but essential for success. Agile isn't just about standups and sprints. At its core, it's about delivering continuous value to customers through collaborative, adaptive approaches.

Whether you're a product manager trying to balance business goals with development realities or a UX designer seeking to integrate your creative process into agile workflows, this course provides practical strategies tailored to your role.

You'll discover why the infamous "waterfall" approach earned its bad reputation (hint: it wasn't about sequencing work), how to overcome the "hand-off" mentality that creates silos, and why designers might make surprisingly excellent scrum masters. We'll explore how product managers can effectively wear the "product owner hat" without sacrificing strategic work, and how designers can determine the right level of fidelity for each stage of development.

By the end of this journey, you'll be equipped to build truly collaborative teams that can respond to change, focus on customer value, and deliver exceptional digital products while respecting the unique contributions of product management, UX design, and development perspectives.

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January 29, 2026

Skills you’ll learn:

Master the agile mindset

Develop the foundational thinking that enables successful agile implementation beyond just following frameworks.

Bridge product-UX-dev collaboration

Learn practical strategies to overcome common collaboration challenges between product managers, designers, and developers.

Apply agile methodology tailored to your role

Discover how product managers and UX designers can adapt agile principles to their specific responsibilities and workflows.

Scale agile practices effectively

Gain advanced techniques for measuring progress, facilitating collaborative sessions, and scaling agile across complex teams.

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Who this course is for

Product Managers

Learn to wear the product owner hat effectively without losing sight of strategic work in Agile environments.

UX Designers

Integrate your design process into Agile workflows so you can collaborate with dev teams without sacrificing quality.

Scrum Masters

Strengthen cross-functional collaboration between product, design, and engineering to help your team deliver more value.

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Josh Smith
Josh Smith

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Josh has 25 years of strategic and operational experience in B2B software with both startups and enterprises. He has led, supported, and mentored teams in product design, user research, and front-end development. His favorite quote is, "all of us are smarter than any of us."

Even though his background is predominantly design and product-focused, he is often employed to facilitate agile and scaled agile transformations of product development teams with integrated design and product practices.

He operates several startup businesses in Pennsylvania, USA patenting spatial AI technologies.

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