Product Management

Product Managers play an increasingly critical role in modern technology companies. They are charged with ensuring an organization is laser focused on creating valuable and highly usable products and services, to address pain-points and unmet-needs for their target customers. In this course, students will learn essential Product Management skills by putting theory into practice, on a product or idea of your choosing. You will learn techniques to accelerate product success and avoid common mistakes. You will work in a team comprising of students from engineering, design, business and other backgrounds. This will simulate real-world cross-functional environments where people with different skills collaborate to build a successful product.

Learning Outcomes

• Experience a live development of a product within the context of a product development process
• Learn common methods used in product management
• Gain experience needed to work as product managers in real life environments.

Footnotes

• Workload hours/week outside of class are expected to be 3-4, no longer 5-6, hours on average while maintaining student learning.
• ChatGPT is allowed since product managers and industry leverage, but activities remain designed to think critically and demonstrate learning.

Who is this class for?

Students from all majors, both undergraduate and graduate, are welcome and encouraged. This course is recommended for any student who wants to explore life as a Product Manager, may work in a related field closely with Product Managers, or is interested in exploring a career that spans many aspects of business and technology.

***Instructor Permission is required to enroll in this course by completing the application survey.***