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How to Become a Great Product Manager

This course is highly dedicated to seeing you succeed in your career as a product manager with over 11 hours of core material you are not only going to know about the position itself but also learn through practical solutions.

Bartosz Jaworski
Bartosz Jaworski
Agility | core | 19 hours 45 minutes |   Published: Apr 2021
In partnership with:  Coursera

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Overview

1.5KSTUDENTS*
95.8%RECOMMEND*

This course includes: 

  • 11 hours on-demand video 
  • 1 downloadable resource 
  • Full lifetime access 
  • Access on mobile and TV 
  • Certificate of completion 

Are you looking to get into Product Management and become a great Product Manager? Or are you already one and seek inspiration to improve or deal with particular problems? Are you a sitting product manager that needs inspiration or assistance to help with ongoing issues?  Hi there! I am Dr. Bart Jaworski, Senior Product Manager at Microsoft. For many years, I have been dreaming – just like you – of becoming a highly successful product manager. Now that I have reached this dream, I want to share with you how I managed to do that. The road had been full of unexpected challenges, and I have been forced many times to search for additional resources to help me deal with them. Sadly, there had been some aspects of the position that no course or book could have prepared me for, and this is exactly where this course comes in.  Don't get me wrong. My efforts have resulted in gaining great theoretical and basic knowledge. However, no one has ever told me how to deal with an ineffective team, how to find the right data to perform analyses, or even the basics – what character features actually make a great product manager.  Thus, I have created this course. Throughout over 11 hours of core material, I am going to teach you about the position itself and, I am going to provide you with practical solutions on how to deal with different setbacks that I had to find out the hard way.   After completing this course, you will be well prepared to: 

  • Manage any IT product.
  • Choose the best improvements for it, and make them a reality with your team.
  • Envision the product's growth for many years to come.
  • Build a great product road map.
  • Change your stale development team into a well-oiled, highly effective machine.
  • Find great ideas for your product and support them with the right data.
  • Excel in planning an A/B test for any product change and be able to understand its effects. 
  • Become a great spokesman.
  • Conduct engaging meetings and make them highly effective. 
  • Complete any product management certification. This course provides a certificate as well upon completion. 
  • And many more... 

Skills You Will Gain

Agile
Manager
PM
Product management
Product manager
Product owner
roadmap
scrum

Learning Outcomes (At the end of this program you will be able to)

  • Effective Product management and be able to tell helpful techniques and tools from the time wasting one 
  • Developing your character to be a great Product manager, so you know how to work with people and technology 
  • Planning Product roadmap, so you can impress your stakeholders and present yourself as a visionary 
  • Creating Product vision, to inspire and lead your team to the next level 
  • Devising Product strategy, so that everyone has a clear understanding on how you will go towards the vision 
  • Optimizing development, so you will find trust and respect from both business and engineering teams 
  • Improving product’s value, and see those metrics (KPIs) grow! 
  • Performing effective communication to make sure each stakeholder is well-informed 
  • Planning and performing informative A/B Testing, so you can choose the best ways to develop your product 
  • Leading great presentations that land the key pieces of information and clearly demonstrated the most important KPI 
  • Being an effective team leader to the product and your team 
  • Planning your career, know when to make the right career moves 
  • Winning job interviews by showing you exceptional skills 
  • Conducting inspiring client interviews 
  • Developing user personas that help your communication and bring understanding to your team and stakeholders 
  • Learn user segmentation to understand your data with the right context 
  • Perform meaningful data analysis that shows you the right path for developing a product 
  • Conduct SWOT analysis that unravels hidden opportunities and threads 
  • Learn time management to make the most of your Product Manager’s time 
  • Being able to step up from an Agile Product Owner, Data Analyst, and other roles to a Product Manager position 
  • Being ready for any Product Manager certification / Product Management certification 
  • Delegating tasks so that, as Product Managers, you can focus on the right tasks 
  • Managing stakeholders, so you can manage expectations and find allies all around you 
  • Strategic thinking, so you can proudly lead your product into the future 
  • Defining MVPs – Minimum viable products, so you can effectively verify your Product’s hypothesis 
  • Managing backlog, so you always work on changes that will bring the most value to your users and clients 
  • Building great user stories and tasks, so your team knows precisely what to do 
  • Dealing with technical debt, so both your stakeholders and team are happy with your choices 
  • Reading heatmaps, so you understand user’s actions 
  • Presenting the right data to the right stakeholders at the right time 
  • …and many more! 

Prerequisites

  • None 

Who Should Attend

  • Professionals planning to become a Product Manager 
  • Junior and mid product managers planning to jump-start their careers 
  • Acting and senior Product Manager and Product Owners looking for inspiration or a different take on what they do 
  • Code developers looking to transition to Product Management 
  • Data scientists looking to transition to Product Management 
  • Sales agents looking to transition to Product Management 
  • Project managers looking to transition to Product Management 
  • Design engineers looking to transition to Product Management 
  • Product Owners looking to transition to Product Management 
  • Business Analysts looking to transition to Product Management 
  • Junior Product Managers 
  • Associate Product managers 
  • Graduates looking to start their career

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*Where courses have been offered multiple times, the “# Students” includes all students who have enrolled. The “%Recommended” shown is also based on this data.
1Welcome to the course!
2Module 1 - Introduction
3Module 2 - Product Manager - Understanding the Role
4Module 3 - Designing a great Product Manager
5Module 4 - Product’s Big Bang – Chaos is Born
6Module 5 - Organizing the work around the Product - Turning chaos into order
7Module 6 - Communication – Sharing the order with others
8Module 7 - Before the Product development – Turning order into work
9Module 8 - Product development - Turning work into product
10Module 9 - Live product - Finally getting the users to use it!
11Module 10 - Data – Understanding the impact on the Product change
12Module 11 - The Product Manager career path
13Module 12 - Conclusion
Bartosz Jaworski

Bartosz Jaworski

He is a resourceful and experienced Product Manager who embodies Mark Twain's sentiment that if you love your job, you'll never work a day in your life. His passion lies in bringing people together to create exceptional products and helping them become the best versions of themselves. With a meticulously planned and executed career, he is proud to have earned his doctorate. As an active Product Manager, his commitment extends beyond his professional role to educating and empowering the next generation of product managers through his online courses.

Throughout his career, he has successfully driven initiatives that significantly improved key metrics and saved valuable development time by asking the right questions at the right moments. His ability to lead and inspire teams is evidenced by his achievements in product strategy, backlog management, and the introduction of best practices. His expertise extends beyond product management; he also coaches and mentors other PMs, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented environment.

His courses, developed through careful market analysis, have reached over 20,000 students and garnered stellar reviews, solidifying his reputation as a top Product Management educator. His journey in product management has been marked by impactful roles in various organizations, where he has overseen major projects and led teams to success.

From enhancing the video calling experience in Skype to launching a new used cars business for OLX in Poland, his diverse experience spans both corporate and start-up environments. He excels in translating strategic visions into actionable plans, ensuring successful product launches and continuous improvements. His contributions have consistently resulted in enhanced user experiences and significant business growth, making him a trusted leader in the field.

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