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Overview
Do you want to bring products to market that customers love in a way that is more expedient and more efficient?
This is the role of the Product Manager. This course introduces you to various tools and techniques to ideate and run experiments. Learners will learn how to oversee the product lifecycle and create and advance the product strategy – carefully balancing concerns between market conditions, business strategy, and tactical delivery. In doing so they’ll learn how to embrace the needs of all three to add value to their organisation, their stakeholders, and most importantly, their customer.
This three-day course provides experienced and aspiring product managers, product owners and product analysts with the opportunity to explore new theories, tools and techniques.
In this engaging ICAgile Product Management Course (ICP-PDM) led by expert agile trainers, you will learn how to discover, position, and deliver winning products in a competitive market scenario.
Upon completion of this course, you’ll earn the ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Product Management (ICP-PDM) certificate.
Certification
Certification is gained through attendance and full participation throughout the event.
The trainer will ask for an email address to be passed to ICAgile so that an electronic questionnaire about the event can be provided. Filling in this questionnaire is a prerequisite to receiving your accreditation.
Target Audience
This course is valuable to existing and aspiring product managers.
Other Relevant roles include: Product Managers, Business Analysts, Product Owners, Project Managers, Business Subject Matter Experts, Business Sponsors, or anyone aspiring to these roles.
Also, anyone with a curiosity about Agile product approaches to value-driven delivery in both tech and non-tech environments will benefit from this certification.
Audience
This course will help you to become a better product manager, equipping you with the right tools and skills that help you and others to succeed.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Analyse a product across the adoption curve and the product lifecycle
Describe how a product can be positioned to meet market, customer, and organizational needs
Prepare a product strategy and describe how to validate the strategy
Explain the value of an Outcome-oriented roadmap
Build a low-fidelity prototype and get feedback on it
Evaluate how team composition changes as the product changes, scales, and moves through the product lifecycle
Prerequisites
Learners are required to have a grasp of fundamental Agile concepts
Existing knowledge or experience of working in or leading agile teams would be beneficial but not essential.
For virtual delivery, learners will require the use of WebEx and the ability to access boards on Miro.com
This course offers a suitable progression route from ICAgile Fundamentals and ICAgile Product Owner .
Outline
This course is delivered over 3 consecutive days, high level session details can be viewed below.
During each session you will explore agile theory and concepts while putting tools and techniques into action.
The live event learning experience is underpinned by simulated activities, enabling you to practice the skills needed to become an effective (or more effective) product manager.
You will learn in a collaborative environment with one of QAs Agile expert trainers.
Over the 3 days you will cover in detail the below:
Characteristics of a Product
What is Product Management?
What is a Product?
Projects are not Products
Product Lifecycle
Product Management Concerns
Understanding the Market
Business Drivers
Using Research to Identify Product Ideas and Solutions
The Ugly Reality
The Organisational Ecosystem
Crafting a Compelling Vision
Metrics that Matter for Products
Know Your Product
Understanding Customers
Outcome-Orientated Roadmaps
Defining a Relevant Product
Design Approach
Designing Hypothesis Tests and Experiments
Iterating on Feedback from the Market
Building a Prototype
Design an Experiment
Product and Cross Functional Teams
Teams Across the Product Lifecycle
Slicing the Product
Wrap-up and Reflection
If you need training for 3 or more people, you should ask us about onsite training. Putting aside the obvious location benefit, content can be customised to better meet your business objectives and more can be covered than in a public classroom. Its a cost effective option. One on one training can be delivered too, at reasonable rates.
Submit an enquiry from any page on this site and let us know you are interested in the requirements box, or simply mention it when we contact you.
All $ prices are in USD unless it’s a NZ or AU date
SPVC = Self Paced Virtual Class
LVC = Live Virtual Class
Our clients have included prestigious national organisations such as Oxford University Press, multi-national private corporations such as JP Morgan and HSBC, as well as public sector institutions such as the Department of Defence and the Department of Health.
