Product management course reviews
Product management course reviews
Its difficult to assess whether a product management course is right for you. Will it give you what you need in order to make the next step in your career? Here we look at three product management courses and what they cover.
Product School - Product Masterclass: How to Build Digital Products
The product masterclass consists of seven videos from product leaders with a variety of backgrounds: former product team members at Netflix, Quora, Facebook, and Samsung, so a fair bit of experience in large organizations with strong product practices.
The videos cover approximately 160 minutes of content, where the presenters talk you through a variety of subjects, providing theory and experiences from their own careers.
What subjects does the course cover?
There are seven speakers, each covering a different topic, including:
Product Management or Product Marketing: Which is right for you?
Defensibility 101: How to build and break software monopolies
Branding for builders
How to prioritize as a Product Manager
Overcoming cognitive biases (Product Managers are people too)
Building Successful Digital Health Products as a PM
3 key biases in product and how to avoid them
Who's the course for?
If you’re a day-to-day product manager, then asking your boss to spend $2k of his training budget on you doing this course is a big ask, especially when I think that maybe half the course is aimed at people further up the career ladder. I’d perhaps look around for a better targeted course.
If you’re a VP of product, then you can probably spare the $2k from your own budget, but you’ll only be using half of the course aimed at a strategic level, and in reality you might be able to pick up some of this insight from TED talks, webinars, or reaching out to experts via LinkedIn. The other half of the content you’d probably know anyway.
30 Days of Product by Rutul Davé
Rutul has both a degree and a masters in Computer Science, is a founder of a digital mortgage lending platform and has spent numerous years in the bay area managing and marketing products.
What subjects does the course cover?
To date, about 800 aspiring managers have signed up for the course, which through a series of 18 short lessons he covers the basics of product management through the mechanism of researching, defining and building an application for photo sharing.
Who's the course for?
The lessons are bite-sized and targeted at someone who is just starting out in product management and maybe hasn't had any real exposure to defining a product before.
You'll learn some of the terminologies and where this fits into the product life cycle, so you'll know what you're doing when you walk into your first product role.
If you're a little way into your product management career then this might not be the course for you.
Product School - Product Masterclass: How to Build your product career
What does the course entail?
The product career masterclass consists of five videos from product leaders with a variety of backgrounds: Google, Paypal, XO Group and lecturers at Berkeley.
The videos cover approximately 270 minutes of content, where the presenters talk you through a variety of subjects, providing theories and experiences from their own careers.
What subjects does the course cover?
There are five speakers, each covering a different topic, including:
Think like a product manager
What are the basics of a product manager?
7 habits of highly effective PMs
Interviewing at top tech companies
What I look for when I hire product managers
Who's the course for?
The content can be consumed by anyone in a product career, but probably those in the first five years is the sweet spot. I’m not sure that the course holds together as ‘building your product career’, as it covers the highlighting of skills you’ll need plus a lot about how to interview for product roles.