course schedule
Why choose our Product courses?
The Product Mindset
Learn how to think like a Product professional by living and breathing the Product. Experience their day-to-day activities to build the right thought culture.
Become More Effective
Learn the full range of essential soft and hard skills, latest tools and best practices used by Product people in leading companies today.
Immersive Experience
Our live online courses use the latest online training methods & tech to keep you focused and energized. Each class is interactive, discussion-based and focused to ensure optimum engagement.
Gain Confidence and Insight
Through a thorough understanding of your role and by reviewing case-studies, explore situations and share experiences with peers from other companies.
Expert Instructors
Our instructors are highly skilled product owners and product managers with in-depth knowledge and experience across a wide range of companies and industries
Consistent High Quality Content
Our training is part of a body of knowledge that is consistent with best practice across all our courses. It’s not dependent on the personal experience of someone who happens to work at a famous company
Learn the Terminology
Talk the talk and walk the walk! Learn product terminologies and jargon that will allow you to effectively communicate across a wide range of stakeholders, ranging from developers, UI/UX engineers to C-level executives
Post-Training Support
Get access to our source of industry-leading tools lists, templates, checklists, materials and best practice resources
Live Online and Face-to-Face Training
Product Manager or Product Owner, kick start your career by experiencing our industry-leading product owner or product management training. Whether you’re in the B2B or B2C industry, work with software, physical products or services – if you’re involved in or would like to transition into a product-related role, this is the training for you!
For the past 10 years, we’ve consistently updated our course content to keep it relevant and current. As a digital product person, this training is an ideal compliment to its application in agile environments while reinforcing agile concepts and practices.
COURSE OUTLINE
Product Ownership
The PO has a significant role in maximizing the value produced by the team and ensuring Stories meet the user’s needs and comply with the Definition of Done. For most enterprises moving to Agile, this is a new and critical role, typically translating into a full-time job, requiring one PO to support each Agile team (or, at most, two teams).
Topics covered:
- Describe SAFe for Lean enterprises
- Explain Value Streams
- Describe Lean-Agile Mindset decision making
- Describe Product Owner/Product Manager responsibilities
As a member of the extended Product Management team, the PO is heavily involved in program backlog refinement and prep for Program Increment (PI) planning and also plays a significant role in the planning event itself. Before the planning event, the PO updates the team backlog and typically reviews and contributes to the program vision, Roadmap, and content presentations.
Topics covered:
- Describe the Program Increment
- Describe the Vision
- Forecast work through Roadmaps
- Create beneficial Features
- Manage the Program Backlog and Kanban
PO is involved with story definition, providing the clarifications necessary to assist the team with their story estimates and sequencing. The entire Agile team, which includes the PO, also work together to determine their team PI objectives for the upcoming PI.
Topics covered:
- Communicate the Vision
- Establish PI Objectives
- Manage dependencies
- Manage risks
PO reviews and prioritize the backlog as part of the prep work for Iteration Planning, including coordination of dependencies with other POs. During the iteration planning event, the PO communicates story detail and priorities and ensures the team aligns and agrees on a final iteration plan.
Topics covered:
- Apply User Stories
- Plan the Iterations
- Manage flow with the Team KANBAN
- Continuously refine the backlog
- Participate in the Iteration Review and Retrospective
- Support DevOps and Release on Demand
- Executing the PI
Iterations and Agile teams serve a larger purpose; the frequent, reliable, and continuous release of value-added solutions. During each PI, the PO coordinates dependencies with other POs. This often occurs in weekly PO sync events (see the PI article for more information). The PO also has an instrumental role in producing the System Demo for program and Value Stream stakeholders.
This cover
- Participate in the PO sync
- Participate in the System Demo
- Innovate throughout the PI
- Inspect and Adapt
Iterations and Agile teams serve a larger purpose; the frequent, reliable, and continuous release of value-added solutions. During each PI, the PO coordinates dependencies with other POs. This often occurs in weekly PO sync events (see the PI article for more information). The PO also has an instrumental role in producing the System Demo for program and Value Stream stakeholders.
Topics covered:
- Participate in the PO sync
- Participate in the System Demo
- Innovate throughout the PI
- Inspect and Adapt
Product Management
Product Management is responsible for defining and supporting the building of desirable, feasible, viable, and sustainable products that meet customer needs over the product-market life cycle. We will go over the following:
- Product Manager role and responsibilities
- Identify Product Management stakeholders and collaborators
- Design Thinking for Product Management
Understanding the market and user needs is a key for any Product to be successful. We will go over the following:
- Market research in the context of Continuous Exploration
- Discover the right hypothesis and ask the right questions
- Apply data-driven practices to answer questions
- 4 Plan your research
- Customer understanding
Market segmentation is the process of dividing a potential market into distinct subsets (called segments) with common needs or characteristics in order to focus effort on the most attractive segment. We will go over the following:
- Explain market segmentation
- Create market segments through market research
- Determine market segment value
- Assess market segment fit
- One of the key elements on Product is the Persona using that one can improve the customer experience. This covers:
- The purpose and use of personas
- Create and use personas
- Improve Customer experience through empathy
Product vision and strategy derives the product direction, for a Product to be successful , a strong vision and strategy is core. This covers:
- Strategic purpose of your product
- Compelling product Vision
- Design value propositions and business models
- Design the Customer journey
- Design the whole product and Solution Context
- Design platform, API, and data strategy
The Roadmap is a schedule of events and Milestones that communicate planned Solution deliverables over a planning horizon. This covers:
- Define Solution Intent
- Forecast Roadmaps that link strategy to tactics
- Organize Features for balanced Solutions
- Refine Features into Stories and Story maps
Flow of value is key for any development effort which can be enabled with Value stream. The ART gets aligned to the value stream using PI. We will cover the following:
- Visualize development flow using a Program Kanban
- Estimate and forecast the backlog
- Prioritize the Program Backlog
- Create alignment with PI Planning
- Execute the PI
Value stream economics models the flow of value and the financial model of the Value Streams and is used to ensure Value Streams are creating viable and sustainable products and Solutions.
- Analyze Customer value
- Choose type of value exchange
- Establish costing and pricing
- Create a sustainable economic model
- Interpret in-licensing models
- Design out-licensing models
- Model financial performance and return on investment (ROI)
- Value Stream innovation refers to the innovations we create in the design and implementation of Value Streams and the Solution Context. We will cover the following:
- Value Stream and product innovation
- Metrics to guide improvements
- Manage innovations through Epics
- Fund sustainable innovation
- Apply rapid experimentation
- Evaluate hypothesis outcomes: Pivot, stop, or continue