The 6 Pillars

1 - Great software is built by great teams 2 - Great software is built for customers 3 - Work in feedback loops 4 - Make things visible 5 - Automation amplifies human potential 6 - Continuous improvement is a habit

Curriculum

8 Chapters · 32 Lessons

  1. 1

    Module Introduction

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      Introduction

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      What is user centricity?

  2. 2

    What is Product Management

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      Introduction

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      What is product management?

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      Product management is a team sport

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      Exercise: product management focus

  3. 3

    Product Vision and Strategy

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      Introduction

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      What is a product vision?

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      The product vision board

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      Exercise: what is a product vision's purpose?

  4. 4

    Product-Market Fit

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      Introduction

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      The six steps to product-market fit

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      Iterate to maintain fit

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      Exercise: what is product market fit?

  5. 5

    User Research and Usability Testing

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      Introduction

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      Identify target users

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      Hypothesis-driven feature development

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      Empathy mapping

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      You can use this empathy map template to do an empathy mapping exercise with your users

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      Empathy map example

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      Internally facing products

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      Exercise: what is a user-centred approach for?

  6. 6

    Informed by Data

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      Introduction

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      Data-driven & data-informed

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      Types of data: qualitative vs quantitative

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      Process to make data-driven and data-informed decisions

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      Exercise: what is being data-informed?

  7. 7

    Pillar Assignment

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      Assignment Background

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      Assignment One - Create a Product Vision

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      Assignment Two - Formulate Hypotheses

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      Assignment Three - Create an Empathy Map

  8. 8

    Pillar Feedback

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      Pillar Feedback

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