Become a Product Manager | Learn the Skills & Get the Job

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₹ 499 3099

Quick Facts

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Medium of instructions English
Mode of learning Self study
Mode of Delivery Video and Text Based

Course and certificate fees

Fees information
₹ 499  ₹3,099
certificate availability

Yes

certificate providing authority

Udemy

The syllabus

Before Starting The Course

  • Course overview
  • First Thing to do
  • Choose your own adventure - we'll tell you which lectures to watch *SAVE TIME!*
  • Join our community on Slack!
  • Review sheets, activities, & resources - all in one PDF!

Introduction to Product Management

  • What is a Product Manager?
  • What is a Product? 
  • [POP QUIZ] Products and Product Managers
  • [ACTIVITY] The Big, Bloated, Blue Bird
  • Three Different Types of Product Manager Roles 
  • How to Think About the Type of PM You Want to Be 
  • Product vs. Project Management 
  • A Day in the Life 
  • Why Product Management is Awesome 
  • [QUIZ] The World of Product Management 
  • Hooray for free stuff!Q&A 
  • Section 2: SQL, Service Businesses, and All About Being a PM
  • Section 2: Review & Recap

Introduction to Product Development

  • The Four Major Phases of the Product Lifecycle 
  • [POP QUIZ] Did You Catch All of That?
  • [ACTIVITY] Six Products Four Phases - Can you guess which?
  • Product Lifecycle Phases: Real World Examples
  •  The Product Development Process 
  • Getting Deeper Into the Product Development Process 
  • [ANOTHER POP QUIZ] Product Lifecycle and Development Quiz
  • What is "Lean Product Development"? 
  • What is "Agile"? 
  • What is "Scrum" and How Does it Work? 
  • What is "Kanban" and How Does it Work?
  • What is Waterfall Development? 
  • Real World Examples of Waterfall and Agile
  • [QUIZ] Speaking "Product Development"
  • Section 3: Review & Recap

Ideas and User Needs

  • Introduction to Ideas and User Needs 
  • Where Ideas Come From as a PM
  • [POP QUIZ] On the Origin of Ideas 
  • Getting to the Real User Needs 
  • [ACTIVITY]: Separating the Signal from the Noise
  • Users vs. Customers
  • [QUIZ] Ideas and User Needs
  • Section 4: Review & Recap

Competitive and Market Analysis

  • Market Research
  • Introduction to Finding Competitors 
  • Finding Competitors as a Product Manager 
  • Direct / Indirect / Potential Competitors and Their Impact 
  • [POP QUIZ] One Company to Rule Them All
  • The Five Criteria for Understanding Competitors 
  • The Last Three Criteria for Understanding Competitors 
  • [POP QUIZ] The Dating Game
  • What's a Feature Table? 
  • Putting Together a Feature Table 
  • [ACTIVITY] Oculus Rift Between Your Friends
  • Practice Building a Feature Table 
  • Analyze Specific Features
  • [ACTIVITY] Wunderlist and Their Not-So-Wunderful Dilemma
  • Monitoring Competitors
  • What Do We Ultimately Care About as a PM?
  • Section 5: Review & Recap

Customer Development

  • What is Customer Development?
  • The Four Types of Interviews
  • Key Differences in Customer Development
  • [POP QUIZ] Customer Development
  • Who You Should Talk To
  • Finding Interviewees Externally
  • Finding Interviewees Internally
  • How to Get Them to Talk
  • Practice Writing Emails
  • How to Run a Customer Interview Correctly
  • Putting the GO in Pokemon Go
  • Good Questions, Bad Questions
  • Building User Personas Off Your Interviews
  • Real World Example of a User Persona
  • The Product Manager & The Data Diet
  • [QUIZ] Understanding Customer Development
  • Section 6: Review & Recap

Designing and Running Experiments

  • What is an MVP?
  • How do product managers think about MVPs?
  • 7 steps to running an MVP experiment
  • [POP QUIZ] You Down with MVP?
  • Identifying your assumptions
  • FOLLOW ALONG: Let's identify the assumptions for Zirx
  • Finding the riskiest assumption of them all
  • Making decisions: The risk / difficulty square
  • What is a hypothesis?
  • Putting together a hypothesis
  • FOLLOW ALONG: Identifying Zirx's hypothesis
  • What's a minimum criteria for success?
  • Creating a formula for your MCS
  • OPTIONAL: Making the calculation for startups
  • MVP techniques: emails, shadows, & whoops
  • More MVP techniques: walk me throughs & pitch experiments
  • Even more MVP techniques: bellhops, Dorothy, & Frankensteins
  • In depth: Email based MVPs
  • In depth: Shadow buttons
  • In depth: Coming soon & 404 MVPs
  • In depth: Explainer videos
  • In depth: Piecemeal MVPs
  • In depth: Concierge service MVPs
  • OPTIONAL: How do big companies think about MVP experiments?
  • Evaluating results & Learning from them
  • Section 7: Review & Recap

Conceptualizing the Solution

  • Introduction to Wireframing
  • Wireframe, Mockup, Prototype
  • Let's Jump into Sketching
  • Sketching Out a Mobile App
  • OPTIONAL: Using POP features in Marvel
  • Intro to Balsamiq
  • Building YouTube in Balsamiq
  • [QUIZ] Just Making Sure...
  • Section 8: Review & Recap

Metrics for Product Managers - Defining Success and Measuring Results

  • Introduction to Metrics
  • Real Life Examples of Metrics
  • Metrics of All Kinds
  • How to Pick Good Metrics
  • Using the HEART Metrics Framework - Part 1
  • Using the HEART Metrics Framework - Part 2
  • Using the AARRR (Pirate) Metrics Framework
  • Tracking Your Metrics in Practice
  • [QUIZ] Pirates of the Correlation
  • Section 9: Review & Recap

Building the Product - Project Management for PMs

  • Introduction to Epics
  • Let's Get Into Epic Specs
  • User Stories and Acceptance Criteria
  • Real Life Example of Epics, Specs, User Stories, and the Backlog
  • Estimations and Velocity
  • Roadmapping
  • Prioritization
  • [QUIZ] Epic Feature, Bro
  • Section 10: Review & Recap

Instructors

Mr Cole Mercer

Mr Cole Mercer
Instructor
Udemy

Mr Evan Kimbrell

Mr Evan Kimbrell
Instructor
Udemy

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