Boston University is offering free online Course on Product Management with Lean, Agile and System Design Thinking. In this course, part of the Digital Product Management MicroMasters program, you will be introduced to frameworks for decision-making based on both economic and organizational considerations.
In this 8 week course, applicants will learn how to plan, develop and deliver on all aspects of work in the lifecycle of digital products using lean, agile and systems design thinking. The course will start on March 5, 2019.
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( votes)Course At A Glance
Length: 6 weeks
Effort: 4-8 hours pw
Subject: Business and Management
Institution: Boston University and edx
Languages: English
Price: Free
Certificate Available: Yes, Add a Verified Certificate for $ 200
Session: Course Starts on March 5, 2019
Providers’ Details
Boston University’s impact extends far beyond our campus in the heart of Boston. Our students, faculty, and alumni travel around the globe to study, teach and become immersed in the communities in which they live. As one of the world’s leading research universities, Boston University is currently engaged in more than 340 separate research, service, and educational programs and projects. Today, BU is the fourth-largest private university in the country and a member of the American Association of Universities, a nonprofit association of 62 of North America’s leading research-intensive institutions.
About This Course
Want to be the “CEO” of the digital product, but unsure which types of skill sets you may need? This course is for you.
Product management drives the implementation of business models in startups and digital enterprises. Learn about the key decisions, underlying trade-offs, and implementation decisions needed for each phase of the product life and master business and organizational logic to ensure product success in the marketplace
Why Take This Course?
In this course, part of the Digital Product Management Micro Masters program, you will be introduced to frameworks for decision-making based on both economic and organizational considerations. These frameworks inform a rising product manager on how to:
- Understand customer co-creation, needs and become “a champion” for user-centric development in the digital technologies.
- Set up and manage specific workflows (e.g. either lean, agile or stage gate development tasks) that result in timely launch and upgrades of products.
- Take a data and metrics-driven approach to make product life cycle decisions including pricing, versioning, maintenance, helpdesks and end of life.
- Shape the direction of the product based on experimentation and system design thinking by learning from product roadmaps, competitive considerations, and allied evolution of demand in digital markets.
Learning Outcomes
- Product line planning and road mapping alternatives
- Idea generation, customer need assessment, co-creation, definition and validation of minimal viable product (MVP) and allied set up of requirement documents
- Alternative approaches for lean, agile and waterfall development, along with the tools for assessing task, project and business risks (and risk mitigation strategies) at scrums or at stage gates.
- How to launch a product and create a go to market strategy to champion your product
- Performance Management: Ownership of product related profit (or loss) over various life cycle stages; how to track and optimize system performance metrics while marshaling of social media and third party data towards performance optimization
Instructors
Varun Nagaraj
Varun is CEO at Sierra Monitor Corporation, an Industrial IoT company, and a doctoral candidate at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western, researching innovation broadly and product management practices in particular.
Nitin R. Joglekar
Nitin is an Associate Professor of Operations and Technology Management at Boston University Questrom School of Business. He holds degrees in engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur), Memorial University (Canada) and MIT School of Engineering, He also holds a Ph.D. in Management Science from the MIT Sloan School.
Requirements
- Secondary school (high school) algebra; basic mathematics concepts
- Background in three areas:
- Project and process (operations) management concepts
- Marketing concepts
- Software engineering concepts
Learners may develop a background in these three areas either through on-the-job exposure or by auditing 3rd or 4th-year university level or online courses before taking this course.
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