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Product Management Part-Time

  • Short course or microcredential

Balance business viability, technical feasibility, and customer desire to lead products and features toward long-term success. Learn from a seasoned expert.

Key details

Degree Type
Short course or microcredential
Duration
10 Week Part-Time OR 1 Week Intensive
Study Mode
In person, Online
Intake Months
Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun

About this course

PDM is a 10-week part-time or 1 Week intensive course that teaches product management for working professionals in the tech space.

Study locations

Sydney

Melbourne

Online

What you will learn

Designed With a Focus on Real-World Relevance

Concentrate on the most important skills for navigating the product life cycle on the job, from planning and prioritisation to validating assumptions and monitoring metrics. GA’s product management advisory board curates the best practices and innovative teaching approaches of our entire expert network to meet evolving employer demands. Its work ensures that students graduate ready to tackle the challenges they’ll face in the field as product managers.

Launch Viable, Market-Tested Products and Features

This product management course is designed for students with a range of professional experiences — including beginners. Updated for 2020, its curriculum includes a renewed focus on Agile best practices, stakeholder management, and working with data. Take a deep dive into essential concepts and tools behind the end-to-end PM process, and get hands-on experience solving real problems for users.

Career pathways

In this course, you'll learn product design fundamentals, how to create and measure product market fit, UX design, business fundamentals including financial modeling and pricing, and the keys to effective stakeholder communication and management. Many students use this course as an incubator for their own ideas, which they build, and test in their graduation portfolio.

Course structure

Defining a Product / Feature

  • Problem Statements
  • Hypotheses
  • Risks and Assumptions
  • Product Development Cycle
  • Target Users
  • Customer Research
  • Customer Interviews
  • Competitive Analysis
  • Customer Personas
  • MVP
  • Build-Measure-Learn

Communicating Ideas

  • Wireframing
  • Sketching
  • Storyboards
  • Task Scenarios
  • Usability Testing
  • Core Positioning
  • Presentation Skills
  • Web Development Basics
  • Stakeholder Management

Planning and Prioritizing

  • Product Roadmap
  • Estimation
  • Prioritization
  • Use Cases
  • User Stories
  • Acceptance Criteria
  • Requirements
  • KPIs
  • Funnel Analysis

Defining Process

  • Agile vs. Waterfall
  • Scrum
  • Kanban
  • Sprints
  • Agile Best Practices
  • Managing User Stories
  • Trello
  • Jira
  • Product Documentation
  • Release Notes + Cadence