Exploring the Delivery and Evolution of Products

Description

Understand how to assess product opportunities using lean and Agile practices. In this course, Exploring Assessing Evidence-based Opportunities, you’ll learn to explore opportunities in the market instead of ideas and applying them via design and lean thinking practices, as well as keeping stakeholders satisfied by validating their ideas.

First, you’ll explore​ how to generate solution ideas, which techniques can be used to generate them, how to evaluate them, how to prioritize them; as well as discussing prioritization of ideas versus opportunities.

Next, you’ll discover​ how to create prototypes on different levels, prototyping benefits, exploring ideas with prototyping; and tips and benefits about working together with product designers and how to manage the co-designing process.

Finally, you’ll learn how to​ create a stakeholder validation plan, its preparation steps, usage of prototypes in the plan, including data collection as evidence, and applying design thinking practices to iteratively improve the plan.

When you are finished with the course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of​ exploring the delivery and evolution of the products with opportunities discovered and executed, ​needed to​ compete with the products in the market.

Description

Understanding how to partner and work with your technical lead and ultimately your engineering team is key in product management. In this course, Exploring Partnering with Technical Leads, you’ll learn how to communicate and get the best out of your technical lead. First, you’ll understand the need to align your technical lead with the fundamental problem that needs to be solved. Next, you'll learn how to align your technical lead with the vision and direction of the product. Finally, you’ll cover some of the needs of the technical lead and how to help achieve them. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the knowledge needed to partner with technical leads and create a product that is solving the right problems.

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Addressing product risks is a very important topic for anyone developing a new product or service, since 40% to 60% of software products fail to meet the expectations. Your goal as a product manager is to ensure that those risks are addressed and that your initial assumptions are validated before your company invests the time and effort in developing or improving a product. In this course, Reducing Product Risk, you’ll learn to identify and address the four main risks facing product development. First, you’ll explore those four main product risks: demand risk, value risk, feasibility risk and business viability risk and how each of them could be relevant to your product and company. Next, you’ll discover different techniques for testing each of those four risks. Finally, you’ll learn how to work together with UX designers, technical teams, and stakeholders on testing and validating your assumptions. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge on how to reduce product risks needed to ensure the high level of confidence before the product development starts.

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Setting goals and clearly defined performance metrics are necessary with measuring product performance. In this course, Exploring Measuring Product Performance, you will learn how to map organization vision and metrics to your product. First, you will learn what your organization vision is and key metrics defined to measure it. Next, you will learn how to craft your product strategy and metrics, from the organization strategy. Finally, you’ll learn how to present your product pitch to stakeholders to gain executive buy-in. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of being able to define product metrics and how you will utilize them in alignment to your organization.

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In this course, Exploring Iterating Product Experiences, you’ll learn to discover, prioritize, and plan improvements to existing products. First, you’ll explore qualitative and quantitative data from current product metrics, customers, and stakeholders. Next, you’ll discover where the product is falling short of KPIs and business objectives and determine what outcomes to positively impact. Finally, you’ll learn how to test and prioritize data themes into new roadmap items. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the product skills and knowledge needed to confidently and successfully iterate existing products.

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Have you ever wondered how companies manage to find innovative ideas and turn them into profitable opportunities? In this course, Exploring Innovating Product Experiences, you’ll learn to generate innovative ideas based on an existing product and to rapidly identify promising solutions. First, you’ll explore your organization’s propensity for innovation and what type of innovation you can deliver. Next, you’ll discover how to plan innovation research and turn your findings into innovative ideas. Finally, you’ll learn how to quickly prototype and validate your innovative solutions. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of product management needed to plan, conduct, and sustain product innovation in your company.