Fall2025

Dear students, hi! Welcome to the Agile in Social Innovation course. 

This course is your gateway to bringing together everything you’ve learned in Social Entrepreneurship and Design Thinking concentration. As the final step in your concentration, it’s designed to help you apply the skills from Design Thinking, Social Entrepreneurship, and Leading Change in real-world situations. In a fast-changing world, being agile isn't just a bonus—it's a necessity. This course will empower you to tackle challenges and embrace opportunities using an agile mindset and methodologies for social innovation.

Innovation is all about solving problems that matter. Through this course, you'll dive into Agile project, product, and team management, using practical tools like Trello, Miro, and Notion. As you advance, you can also explore more complex tools like Jira, Asana, and Figma. Agile approaches such as Lean Startup, SCRUM, and Kanban will become part of your toolkit, offering you flexible, adaptive methods that go beyond traditional models.

As a social innovator, you’ll learn to identify what truly adds value at every step of your project, and you'll continuously adjust based on what you discover. Rooted in the Agile Manifesto, this course is about maximizing the value of your or team work by focusing on the most impactful tasks, embracing change, and collaborating in self-organizing teams. You'll gain the confidence to drive social innovation effectively, ensuring that the products, projects, or services you create make a real difference.

Welcome and let's start our journey!

With best regards,

Your Instructor 

Elena Chigibaeva