IT Product Management

Nearest enrollment

Admission deadline

Till August 2023.
Lectures will begin in the end of May

Course duration

8-10 weeks

Form of study

Distanced
2 classes a week, Kyiv time

Cost

20 000 UAH ($508/€467) in one amount or 8 000 UAH ($204/€187) in three installments.

ON THIS COURSE YOU WILL LEARN TO MANAGE TECHNOLOGICAL PRODUCTS AND MAKE WORKING VERSIONS YOURSELF. YOU WILL BECOME PART OF A CLOSED COMMUNITY, WHERE YOU WILL RECEIVE 24/7 SUPPORT AND ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS FROM OTHER STUDENTS, PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTS AND RECRUITERS.

The IT Product Management course is designed for those who want to learn how to manage IT projects and effectively interact with development teams, marketers and stakeholders. This course will enable you to explore the basic processes of project management and understand how to set up work on your own product and ensure its promotion in the market.

During the training, students will undergo practical training, where they will develop communication skills with designers and developers, explore the end user and the specifics of various types of technological products, create business models and analyze their effectiveness.

At the end of the course, you will be able to develop prototypes of IT products using Figma, use product metrics and have a cool professional resume that will allow you to easily pass complex interviews with real employers from the field of IT Product Management.

Program

  1. INTRODUCTION TO PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

    Intro in product management: responsibilities, trends, research, stages of building a product → Teamwork: interaction with stakeholders, development team, other departments → Structure, roles and areas of responsibility in the team → Techniques for planning and managing teams

  2. MARKET RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS

    Product development life cycle → Product discovery: how to research your product/users/understand where to "dig" → Models and tools for analyzing the market using real examples → Market trends, key trends → Formulas and tools for calculating financial indicators → Unit-economics: where a business earns and where it loses → Forecasting product development based on data

  3. PRODUCT STRATEGY AND PLANNING

    Figma for products and how to talk to designers → We create prototypes → Development and how to put TK to the development team → How to form hypotheses → Hypothesis validation or how to save on development, without doing too much in product development → Interpretation of results → Search for product growth points → Analysis of weaknesses → Preliminary assessment of the introduction of features before and after the release → Model Kano

  4. PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND LAUNCH

    Product metrics and what kind of pokemon "Analytics" → Business model of the product: how to choose it correctly → Tools and services for collecting data, analysis, reports → Conclusions after analysis and their interpretation into real tasks for the team → What is the difference between business analytics and product → A/B tests and statistical analysis → Preparation/conducting/analysis of A/B tests

  5. PRODUCT MARKETING AND SALES

    Marketing and virality: how the product interacts with marketers, how to create products, which people recommend each other Specifics of work in B2B and internal B2B products How to make games/casino/dating Models of product monetization and their advantages How to choose the right model What methods of monetization work better/worse in different countries/markets/segments of users How to evaluate the effectiveness of monetization at each stage of product development

  6. MANAGING THE PRODUCT LIFECYCLE

    Retention rate or retention rate → Cases from life - how to increase adoption/retention → Proxy metrics → Audience segmentation

  7. FINAL

    We do the right resume → Meeting with the "dragon" → We pass mock-interviews with product managers who hire in real life → Case protection

Course curators

  • Daria Popova

Course lecturers

  • Serhiy Kovtun

    Ex-Product Manager at Parimatch Tech and ProductCamp Ukraine co-founder

  • VYACHESLAV TURKAN

    HEAD OF PRODUCT MARKETING AT JIJI, GENESIS

  • GEORGE PETRENKO

    PRODUCT DESIGN MANAGER В HEADWAY

Practice

WITHIN EACH MODULE ON THE IT PRODUCT MANAGEMENT COURSE STUDENTS WORK ON PRACTICAL TASKS.

Market analysis → Research areas with advantages and disadvantages, permission to start a project in this area → Metrics & Calculations → Calculation LTV, CAC, etc. → A/B tests → Research, user interviews → Development of a monetization strategy + Onboarding

Daria Popova
Product Manager в Muso.ai, Ex-Headway

Ex-Product Manager at Parimatch Tech and ProductCamp Ukraine co-founder

Serhiy Kovtun

HEAD OF PRODUCT MARKETING AT JIJI, GENESIS

VYACHESLAV TURKAN

PRODUCT DESIGN MANAGER В HEADWAY

GEORGE PETRENKO