Alex Cowan

Alex Cowan has been an entrepreneur (5x) and an intrapreneur (1x). He’s currently on the faculty at UVA Darden where he focuses on digital innovation, teaching two courses: Software Design and Software Development. He’s also an active advisor to companies on new product and venture creation.
Prior to Darden, he was founder and CTO of Leonid Systems, which was acquired by BroadSoft (NASDAQ: BSFT). His Venture Design framework is widely used by practitioners and instructors for creating new products in agile environments.

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Coding for Designers, Managers, & Entrepreneurs III (Coursera)

Oct 7th 2024
Coding for Designers, Managers, & Entrepreneurs III (Coursera)
Course Auditing
Coursera
University of Virginia
Categories
Business
CS: Design & Product
Effort
Beginner
3 Weeks
5-10 Hours/Week
Languages
English
Spanish
Russian
Portuguese
French
English
Coding for Designers, Managers, & Entrepreneurs III (Coursera)
Do you want to experience what it is to go from idea to code? If so, this is the place for you! This is the third course in the Coding for Designers, Managers, and Entrepreneurs Specialization. If you’re a hands-on collaborator with developers, this course is specifically designed for [...]
Coding for Designers Managers and Entrepreneurs Specialization
Coding
Manager
Entrepreneur
Javascript
UX
User Experience
Prototyping
Cascading Style Sheets
CSS
HTML
Designer
Coursera Plus
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Oct 7th 2024
Course Auditing
Coursera
University of Virginia
Business
CS: Design & Product
Beginner
3 Weeks
5-10 Hours/Week
41.00 EUR/month
English
Spanish
Russian
Portuguese
French
English

Coding for Designers, Managers, & Entrepreneurs II (Coursera)

Oct 7th 2024
Coding for Designers, Managers, & Entrepreneurs II (Coursera)
Course Auditing
Coursera
University of Virginia
Categories
Business
CS: Design & Product
Effort
Beginner
3 Weeks
1-4 Hours/Week
Languages
English
Spanish
Russian
Portuguese
French
English
Coding for Designers, Managers, & Entrepreneurs II (Coursera)
Do you want to experience what it is to go from idea to code? If so, this is the place for you! This is the second course in the Coding for Designers, Managers, and Entrepreneurs Specialization. If you’re a hands-on collaborator with developers, this course is specifically designed for [...]
Coding for Designers Managers and Entrepreneurs Specialization
Designer
Entrepreneur
Manager
Javascript
Prototyping
JQuery
User Experience Design
HTML5
Coding
Coursera Plus
View more details
Oct 7th 2024
Course Auditing
Coursera
University of Virginia
Business
CS: Design & Product
Beginner
3 Weeks
1-4 Hours/Week
41.00 EUR/month
English
Spanish
Russian
Portuguese
French
English

Coding for Designers, Managers, & Entrepreneurs I (Coursera)

Oct 7th 2024
Coding for Designers, Managers, & Entrepreneurs I (Coursera)
Course Auditing
Coursera
University of Virginia
Categories
Business
CS: Design & Product
Effort
Beginner
5-12 Weeks
5-10 Hours/Week
Languages
English
Vietnamese
Turkish
Spanish
Russian
Portuguese
Korean
Italian
German
French
English
Chinese
Arabic
Coding for Designers, Managers, & Entrepreneurs I (Coursera)
Do you want to experience what it is to go from idea to code? If so, this is the place for you! This is the first course in the Coding for Designers, Managers, and Entrepreneurs Specialization, which is specifically designed for you, if you’re a hands-on collaborator with developers. [...]
Coding for Designers Managers and Entrepreneurs Specialization
Coding
Manager
Entrepreneur
Prototyping
Designer
User Experience Design
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets
HTML5
View more details
Oct 7th 2024
Course Auditing
Coursera
University of Virginia
Business
CS: Design & Product
Beginner
5-12 Weeks
5-10 Hours/Week
41.00 EUR/month
English
Vietnamese
Turkish
Spanish
Russian
Portuguese
Korean
Italian
German
French
English
Chinese
Arabic

Agile Analytics (Coursera)

Oct 7th 2024
Agile Analytics (Coursera)
Course Auditing
Coursera
University of Virginia
Categories
CS: Design & Product
Effort
Beginner
4 Weeks
1-4 Hours/Week
Languages
English
Vietnamese
Turkish
Spanish
Russian
Portuguese
Korean
Italian
German
French
English
Chinese
Arabic
Agile Analytics (Coursera)
Few capabilities focus agile like a strong analytics program. Such a program determines where a team should focus from one agile iteration (sprint) to the next. Successful analytics are rarely hard to understand and are often startling in their clarity. In this course, developed at the Darden School of [...]
Digital Product Management Specialization
Agile Development Specialization
Analytics
Demand Analytics
Customer Analytics
Agile Software
Agile Software Development
Product Management
Software Development
Agile Analytics
Agile
Data Science
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Oct 7th 2024
Course Auditing
Coursera
University of Virginia
CS: Design & Product
Beginner
4 Weeks
1-4 Hours/Week
66.00 EUR/month
English
Vietnamese
Turkish
Spanish
Russian
Portuguese
Korean
Italian
German
French
English
Chinese
Arabic

Digital Product Management: Modern Fundamentals (Coursera)

Oct 7th 2024
Digital Product Management: Modern Fundamentals (Coursera)
Course Auditing
Coursera
University of Virginia
Categories
Management & Leadership
Effort
Beginner
4 Weeks
1-4 Hours/Week
Languages
English
Chinese
Arabic
French
Portuguese
Italian
Vietnamese
German
Russian
English
Spanish
Digital Product Management: Modern Fundamentals (Coursera)
Not so long ago, the job of product manager was about assessing market data, creating requirements, and managing the hand-off to sales/marketing. Maybe you’d talk to a customer somewhere in there and they’d tell you what features they wanted. But companies that manage product that way are dying. Being [...]
Leading the Modern Day Business Specialization
Digital Product Management Specialization
Digital Product
Lean Startup
Design Thinking
Product Management
Management
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Oct 7th 2024
Course Auditing
Coursera
University of Virginia
Management & Leadership
Beginner
4 Weeks
1-4 Hours/Week
66.00 EUR/month
English
Chinese
Arabic
French
Portuguese
Italian
Vietnamese
German
Russian
English
Spanish

Continuous Delivery & DevOps (Coursera)

Oct 7th 2024
Continuous Delivery & DevOps (Coursera)
Course Auditing
Coursera
University of Virginia
Categories
Computer Science
CS: Software Engineering
Effort
Beginner
4 Weeks
1-4 Hours/Week
Languages
English
Spanish
Russian
Portuguese
French
English
Continuous Delivery & DevOps (Coursera)
Amazon famously delivers new code every 11.6 seconds. Just a few years ago, this was unthinkable: many ‘cutting edge’ firms would release software quarterly. When it comes to digital innovation, velocity is critical and many would say it’s the most reliable determinant of success. Bringing an organization to the [...]
DevOps
Continuous Delivery
Technical Skills
Amazon
Digital Innovation
Software Development
System Testing
Unit Testing
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Oct 7th 2024
Course Auditing
Coursera
University of Virginia
Computer Science
CS: Software Engineering
Beginner
4 Weeks
1-4 Hours/Week
68.00 EUR
English
Spanish
Russian
Portuguese
French
English

Hypothesis-Driven Development (Coursera)

Oct 7th 2024
Hypothesis-Driven Development (Coursera)
Course Auditing
Coursera
University of Virginia
Categories
CS: Design & Product
Effort
Mixed
4 Weeks
1-4 Hours/Week
Languages
English
Arabic
Chinese
English
French
German
Italian
Korean
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Turkish
Vietnamese
Hypothesis-Driven Development (Coursera)
To deliver agile outcomes, you have to do more than implement agile processes- you have to create focus around what matters to your user and constantly test your ideas. This is easier said than done, but most of today’s high-functioning innovators have a strong culture of experimentation. In this [...]
Digital Product Management Specialization
Agile Development Specialization
Hypothesis
Continuous Delivery
Usability Test
Experiments
Agile
Agile Development
Lean Startup
Computer Science
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Oct 7th 2024
Course Auditing
Coursera
University of Virginia
CS: Design & Product
Mixed
4 Weeks
1-4 Hours/Week
68.00 EUR/month
English
Arabic
Chinese
English
French
German
Italian
Korean
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Turkish
Vietnamese

Gestão de produtos digitais: Princípios básicos modernos (Coursera)

Sep 30th 2024
Gestão de produtos digitais: Princípios básicos modernos (Coursera)
Course Auditing
Coursera
University of Virginia
Categories
Business
Management & Leadership
Effort
Beginner
4 Weeks
1-4 Hours/Week
Languages
Portuguese
Portuguese
English
Chinese
Gestão de produtos digitais: Princípios básicos modernos (Coursera)
Há pouco tempo, o trabalho do gerente de produto era avaliar dados de mercado, criar requisitos e gerenciar a transferência para vendas/marketing. Talvez você conversaria com um cliente em algum lugar e ele diria quais recursos ele quer. Mas as empresas que gerenciam produtos dessa maneira estão [...]
Digital Product
Monetization
Communication
Lean Startup
Design Thinking
Product Management
Management
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Sep 30th 2024
Course Auditing
Coursera
University of Virginia
Business
Management & Leadership
Beginner
4 Weeks
1-4 Hours/Week
66.00 EUR/month
Portuguese
Portuguese
English
Chinese

Innovating with the Business Model Canvas (Coursera)

Sep 30th 2024
Innovating with the Business Model Canvas (Coursera)
Course Auditing
Coursera
University of Virginia
Categories
Management & Leadership
Effort
Beginner
2 Weeks
1-4 Hours/Week
Languages
English
French
Portuguese
Russian
English
Spanish
Innovating with the Business Model Canvas (Coursera)
Have you ever gotten really excited about reading or writing a business plan? You might have started out excited, but I’m going to bet you didn’t stay that way. Let’s be honest- business plans are boring and mostly ignored. In this course, you’ll learn key tools from the [...]
Entrepreneurship: Growing Your Business Specialization
Business Model Canvas
Innovation
Business Plan
Design Thinking
Lean Startup
Profitability
Business Model
Product Management
Corporate Innovation
Business Management
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Sep 30th 2024
Course Auditing
Coursera
University of Virginia
Management & Leadership
Beginner
2 Weeks
1-4 Hours/Week
42.00 EUR/month
English
French
Portuguese
Russian
English
Spanish

Managing an Agile Team (Coursera)

Sep 30th 2024
Managing an Agile Team (Coursera)
Course Auditing
Coursera
University of Virginia
Categories
CS: Design & Product
Effort
Mixed
4 Weeks
1-4 Hours/Week
Languages
English
Vietnamese
Turkish
Spanish
Russian
Portuguese
Korean
Italian
German
French
English
Chinese
Arabic
Managing an Agile Team (Coursera)
While agile has become the de facto standard for managing digital innovation teams, many wonder if they’re doing it ‘right’. Twitter is full of jokes about how teams say they do agile but don’t ‘really’ do it. The reality is that getting the most out of agile is less [...]
Digital Product Management Specialization
Agile Development Specialization
Agile Team
Agile
Scrum
Kanban
Agile Product Development
Agile Software
Agile Software Development
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Sep 30th 2024
Course Auditing
Coursera
University of Virginia
CS: Design & Product
Mixed
4 Weeks
1-4 Hours/Week
66.00 EUR/month
English
Vietnamese
Turkish
Spanish
Russian
Portuguese
Korean
Italian
German
French
English
Chinese
Arabic