E017: Agile Processes and Culture in Technology

Agile Processes and Culture in Technology moves beyond agile-as-a-methodology into agile-as-a-culture. How technology leaders build organizational resilience to constant change.

What E017 covers

The course provides technology leaders with a framework for adapting to changing business needs and environments. Agile approaches enable teams and individuals to reduce the impact of change on projects and strategies, maintaining top velocity despite uncertainty, unexpected contingencies, or change in client requests.

Students learn how agile process can improve efficiencies, apply an agile framework to a business scenario, and strategize how to promote an agile culture within an organization.

The E017 performance assessment

Expect a performance assessment requiring you to apply an agile framework to a given business scenario and propose a strategy for promoting agile culture within that organization.

Key topics in E017

• Agile frameworks
• Applying agile to business scenarios
• Building an agile organizational culture

Writing tips for E017

Follow the task instructions and rubric line by line

WGU performance assessments for E017 are graded against a fixed rubric. Every rubric line has to be visibly addressed, usually with a labeled heading that mirrors the rubric language. Skipping a rubric point because it seems minor is the single most common reason a competent submission comes back "Not Yet Competent" for revision.

Ground strategy recommendations in the specific scenario, not generic best practice

Management and strategy courses like E017 typically hand you a realistic organizational scenario (a company profile, a set of constraints, existing systems). Evaluators are checking whether your recommendation genuinely fits THAT organization's situation. A textbook-generic answer that could apply to any company usually loses rubric points for lacking scenario specificity.

Because WGU is self-paced, don't let "no deadline pressure" become no submission

There's no weekly due date forcing progress, which means procrastination costs more at WGU than at a traditional term-based school. A stalled task can quietly eat weeks of a term. Treat your own target date for each E017 assessment as a real deadline.

Why students seek help with E017

Students sometimes address only the technical agile framework (sprints, backlogs) and skip the organizational-culture component the course specifically requires. A complete response addresses both process and culture.

How GradeEssays helps with E017

Share your business scenario and rubric, and your writer will address both the agile framework application and the cultural change strategy the course requires.

Prerequisites and program context

E017 has no prerequisites.

• Master of Science, Information Technology
• Master of Science, Information Technology - Product Management

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