Product Management Boot Camp
Our Product Management Boot Camp is designed for anyone who is interested in becoming a Product Manager or for Product Managers that are currently in a Product Management role that wish to sharpen their Product Management Skills.
Explore the foundations of Product Management, understand the Product Manager role and how they effectively work with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and team members. Build a strong and effective strategy for a product, create a meaningful value proposition for the product to drive innovation, and build product roadmaps. Learn how to model a product using your strategy and how modeling is used to improve the product strategy. Build and illuminate your product’s North Star. Discover techniques to fully understand your customers and explore the customer centered mindset. create meaningful metrics, learn how to embrace evidence based decision models, reveal roadblocks, and explore common product metrics.
Course Length: 3 days
Type: Virtual - This course is virtual using the Zoom platform.
CDU/PDU: Earn 21 CDU/PDU for both IIBA and PMI certification
Prerequisites: Some experience with Product Management will be helpful, but it is not required.
What We Cover
Product Management Foundations
Product Manager role and responsibilities
Learn the core competencies of a product manager
Understanding product team roles. Explore the differences and similarities between the Product Manager, Product Owner, Business Analyst, and team members
Explore key concepts and competencies including the stages of product development and the product life cycle
Understand design thinking for products
Discover how to use strategic thinking for products
Understand and engage in shifting mindsets from projects to products and understanding different approaches to internal facing or external customer facing products
Developing Product Strategy
Discover techniques to discover and evaluate product opportunities
Learn to define your product’s business value,
Explore establishing a North Star to guide your product
Build a value proposition for your product
Build a prioritized product roadmap
Learn to build a business case for your product
Modeling and Analyzing Products
Discover the Product Canvas Model
Build a fully realized product strategy with the Product Canvas Model to identify suppliers, supply chains, pricing models, customer market segments, marketing plans, expense models, and more to align to your North Star and value proposition.
Discover the differences in product model types from customer driven, supplier driven, and value driven to uncover the best model for your product.
Building a Customer Centered Mindset
Explore techniques to identify and analyze customers and user types
Learn how to build and analyze the customer experience in a meaningful way to create product innovation
Explore and analyze the customer experience and journey
Understand Customer Experience vs Product Experience
Discover approaches to managing feature requests, new product capabilities, and bug fixes
Product Metric and Measurements
Experience new approaches to building the North Star metric for your product, decide what you should be measuring to drive product innovation
Build a team that utilizes an evidence based decision model
Learn how to reveal roadblocks and risks to your product by knowing what measurements are most effective at discovering problems and risks
Explore multiple instrusty standard metrics and determine which metrics will work best for your product and marketplace.