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Product Management

A human-centered course teaching learners to discover problems, define outcomes, prioritize opportunities, shape a roadmap, collaborate with delivery teams and use evidence to decide what to build, change or stop.

24 hOnlineIntermediate

Objectives

  • Separate product outcomes from feature output.
  • Use customer discovery to define problems and jobs-to-be-done.
  • Prioritize opportunities using evidence, impact and effort.
  • Create lightweight product briefs and roadmaps.
  • Use metrics and experiments for product decisions.

Recommended tools

What professionals use for this course, with a free or open-source option wherever there is one.

  • JiraFree plan

    Running a project in sprints and tracking each task.

  • FigmaFree plan

    Screen mock-ups and clickable prototypes.

  • MiroFree plan

    Online whiteboard to map ideas and customer journeys.

  • TaigaOpen source

    Free agile management (Scrum and Kanban).

    Alternative to Jira

  • PenpotOpen source

    Mock-ups and prototypes, free and online.

    Alternative to Figma

Lessons

  • Course OverviewReading
  • Product thinking: problem, outcome, userReading · 25 min
  • Discovery and problem evidenceReading · 25 min
  • Prioritization and roadmap choicesReading · 25 min
  • Prioritising with simple criteriaAssignment · 40 min
  • Product requirements and collaborationReading · 25 min
  • Metrics, experiments and decisionsReading · 25 min
  • Validation quizQuiz · 15 min
  • What next? Tools and your pathwayReading · 5 min