product management

In this Nanodegree, you will learn foundational skills all product managers use in leading the development of software
products, whether mobile apps, desktop apps, or web platforms for consumers or enterprises. 

Product Manager

The UX Fundamentals & Design Research program teaches the core principles of human-centered design, including scoping a design problem, conducting in-depth interviews, creating quantitative surveys, using research data to uncover opportunities, and applying psychology to design sketches with the end user in mind. Participants will learn how to develop a discussion guide, recruit research participants, and synthesize findings in the form of a research report. They will also learn how to translate research findings into low-fidelity prototypes that can be tested with users, design high-fidelity prototypes, and conduct usability tests. Finally, the program teaches advanced user interface principles to build interactive designs that engage users and improve key performance indicators.

User Experience

The AI Product Manager Nanodegree Program offers a comprehensive overview of AI and machine learning for business. It covers the basics of AI, creating a business case for AI, and measuring success. Learners will also learn to create a high-quality dataset, design annotation instructions, and build a medical imaging classification system. The program covers building and training AI models, evaluating results, and measuring impact. The capstone project involves developing a business proposal for an AI product, defining success metrics, scoping the dataset, planning model development, and building a monitoring plan.

AI Product Manager

Existing PMs wanting to get deeper tech expertise in the Data domain to be more self-sufficient during product development and maintenance process.

Data Product Manager

Learn best practices for using an Agile framework to build better products faster and more efficiently.

Agile Software Developer

In this Nanodegree, you will learn to build acquisition funnels, identify core customers, and optimize growth loop models.

Growth Product Manager

The most effective products start with a comprehensive market-based, insight-driven strategy. Understand the role that product managers play during product development, with a focus on activities that happen early in the product development cycle. Learn how to identify the right problems to solve through market research, target user definition, and market sizing. Create a compelling vision and strategy that will set up the team to solve those problems. Understand how to communicate effectively to get people excited and bought into your ideas.

Product management basics

Product Management Fluency

Product management is one of the highest-impact, most in-demand skills. In this lesson, we'll introduce you to basic concepts and terms that you'll need to step into the world of product management.

Discovering Product Management

Mixed methods market research

Product proposals

Stakeholder management

Minimal viable products

Product validation

Total addressable market

Negotiation

Product requirements documents

Storytelling

Product development cycle

Professional presentations

Active listening

User personas

Problem validation

Return on investment

Competitive analysis

Product KPIs

Requirements gathering

Business model canvasses

Product Strategy for Product Managers

business

Learn the fundamentals of User Experience Design.

UX Design Fluency

UX Design is one of the most in-demand skills. In this lesson, we'll introduce you to the fundamental concepts that you'll need to step into the world of UX Design.

Discovering UX Design

Once the problem has been defined and a market opportunity has been identified, it is important to create a solution that is desirable by its users. Bring an idea through concept, design, and user validation, as well as creating a spec to hand-off to engineering for development. Use design thinking methodologies to diverge in order to explore ideas, and then ultimately focus in and converge on a single idea. Map out the full concept through the creation of a prototype that can be used to validate that you’re solving a problem for real users.

How might we method

Solution sketching

High fidelity prototypes

Product storyboarding

Affinity mapping

Technical feasibility evaluation

Iterative product design

Product prototyping

User interviews

Product design principles

Product success metrics

Crazy 8s

Thinking hats

Press releases

Project evaluation

Evangelization

User research planning

Product design sprints

Decision matrix method

Product Design

In this course, you will be introduced to The Agile Mindset and how it sets the tone for "Being" Agile versus just "Doing" Agile. You will learn to leverage The Agile Manifesto as the foundation for all Agile Frameworks, as well as identify the practical differences between Agile and Waterfall approaches. You will then take a deep dive into Agile Teams and Governance and apply best practices of both in order to deliver immense business value. By the end of this course, you will master characteristics of three of the more popular Agile Frameworks being utilized across all industries, which are Scrum, Kanban and XP, as well as apply The Agile Manifesto to deliver practical value in Agile teams and organizations.

Xp framework

Agile frameworks

Building agile teams

Waterfall project management

Agile fluency

Agile manifesto

Scrum

Agile governance

Kanban

Foundations of Agile and Agile Frameworks

The Agile approach to planning is an iterative process that focuses on delivering value to the customer.  In this course, you will be introduced to the high level aspects of agile planning, including product vision and roadmaps. You will also learn how to manage requirements at the tactical level, including gathering, writing, and prioritizing requirements using agile techniques from each of the major frameworks. Finally, you will learn different approaches to estimating work and how to build release and iteration plans that help the team continuously deliver value. At the end of the course, you will be equipped with the tools and techniques they need to apply Agile Planning and Prioritization within a team or organization to deliver value more efficiently.

Feature prioritization

Product iteration planning

Sprint planning

Definition of done

Product backlogs

Product roadmaps

Acceptance criteria

CI/CD

Product release planning

User stories

Backlog management

Delivering Value with Agile Planning and Prioritization

Learn the fundamentals of User Experience Design

Heuristic evaluations

Design ethics

Surveys

Human-centered design

UX Fundamentals & Design Research

This course introduces Product Development, with a focus on the role a Product Manager plays and key activities that occur during development, including the lifecycle of a code change, creating test plans, getting early feedback, effectively prioritizing issues, and running a go/no go launch meeting.

Persuasion

Real-world Testing

Functional testing

Cross-functional collaboration

Prioritization

Project management frameworks

Product Development

Once a need has been defined, and a product has been designed and developed, it is time to bring that product to the market. Learn all about the launch process and the important partners a Product Manager will need to work with during this phase. Create a plan, identify the launch risks and figure out how to minimize their impact on your launch. Collaborate with Marketing stakeholders to determine how to target your customers and develop a compelling message to increase engagement in your product. Work with Sales, Customer Support, and the other teams to prepare them to interface with your customers as
the product is launched. Execute the launch and use feedback from your customers to determine the next steps for your product.

Stakeholder identification

Product launch

Product pricing strategy

Project risk mitigation

A/B testing

Feedback loops

Product marketing

Product scaling

End-user documentation

Product Launch

In this course, you will learn how to apply conversion funnels, perform segment analysis, and use both quantitative and qualitative data in the iterative design cycle to improve your product. In the project, you will have the opportunity to apply the skills you learn to identify areas for product improvements and design a future plan.

Qualitative data analysis

Behavioral market segmentation

Acquisition funnels

Qualitative user research

Cohort analysis

Interpreting test results

Rice framework

Data limitations and biases

Marketing metrics

Quantitative data analysis

Data gathering

Experiment design

Product feature usage metrics

Tableau visualizations

Experiment control

Multivariate testing

Leveraging Data in Iterative Product Design

In this course, you will apply the skills you learn to analyze data and create a business case in the form of a product proposal for a new flying taxi service in New York. 

Database schemas

Product goals

Data storytelling

SQL queries

Data definition

Exploratory data analysis

Chart types

Probability distribution

Data augmentation

Applying Data Science to Product Management

Building the right data infrastructure for your business is critical in today’s world in order to scale and deliver the quality and features your customers need. In this course you’ll learn how to identify your product’s data producers, anticipate the needs of your product’s data producers and work with your stakeholders to put together the right data pipeline to support your data needs. In the project you’ll put these skills together to create a data infrastructure plan for a new and exciting startup that will support its rapidly changing environment data requirements.

Big data storage

Data producers

Event data models

Batch processing

Data storage

Relational data models

Data consumers

Data security fundamentals

Types of data

Data pipeline design

Data use-cases

Stream processing

Data infrastructure basics

Data privacy regulations

Data wrangling fundamentals

Data pipelines

Data warehouse management

Establishing Data Infrastructure

The best products have gone through rounds of iteration based on user research and feedback. Learn the process of a design sprint, and how to translate findings from research into a prototype that can be tested with users. Understand how to foster team collaboration and use divergent and convergent thinking to rapidly create testable prototypes. Apply user interface principles in the design of a clickable prototype, and conduct a usability test to gain valuable feedback from users that can be used in design iterations.

Customer journey maps

Clickable prototypes

Ui design

Double diamond design model

Ideation

Usability testing

Low fidelity prototypes

Ui kits and plugins

Accessible user experience design

User-friendly visual design

Guerilla design sprints

Concept to Low-Fidelity Prototyping

In this course, you will learn how to communicate project progress and status through information radiators, guide, and direct organizational agility through the use of metrics and how to create those metrics, and differentiate between patterns to mimic and anti-patterns to avoid. You will also learn how to identify and mitigate risk and build an internal team communication strategy and an external communication strategy that works effectively for the relevant stakeholder audience. 

Agile velocity

Agile communication

Agile metrics

Continuous improvement

Technical debt management

Big visible information radiator

Sprint retrospectives

Progress, Communication, and Organizational Agility

Learn product validation, UI/UX practices, Google’s Design Sprint and the process for setting and tracking actionable metrics.

programming and development

This is a design course made for developers. You'll learn UX design skills which will help you make 5-star mobile apps that your users will love.

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