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Data Science and Agile Systems for Product Management

Deliver faster, higher quality, and fault-tolerant products regardless of industry using the latest in Agile, DevOps, and Data Science.

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What You Will Learn

  • Designing and modeling for fast feedback and idea sharing
  • System optimization with open architectures
  • Validating functions and verifying performance
  • Leveraging and enabling the system designs, platforms, and ecosystems
  • Lean Startup and Product Innovation Analytics
  • Developing the data collection and preparation pipeline for products and services
  • Analyzing the performance and testing hypotheses for usability, fast-feedback, and growth
  • Customer experience (CX) validation and enhancement leveraging usability analytics

About This Course

Modern systems today must be designed for agility in order to outpace the competition. Concepts like Agile, DevOps, and Data Science were once considered only for the technology-based companies. Today that means every company. Because there is no greater currency than timely information for optimizing operations and meeting the needs of customers.

Modern product management requires that every development and operations value stream is identified and continuously improved. This means using Lean and DevOps principles to streamline handoffs and information flows across teams. It means reorienting towards self-service and automation wherever possible. And to avoid incrementalism, it means a robust Agile development process to keep innovations important and aggressive enough to make noticeable improvements in value delivery.

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At A Glance

Expert Instruction
Build Skills

Self-Paced
‍Progress at your own speed

4 Weeks
2-3 hours per week

Free or $249.00
For the full program experience
Discounted to $224.10 when you purchase the full Product Management Professional Certificate Program.

10 Professional Development Units (PDUs)
Earn PDUs toward your Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Mangement Professional (PMP) certification

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Your Instructor

John Johnson

I'm passionate about what works as both scientific principles and best practices in project and product management. Teaching is leading leaders, so my first goal is to engage with compelling reasons to change their thinking. Our shared goal is to empower their teams to delight customers while also serving the organization and society that supports them.

What Our Students Are Saying

This is one of the most rigorous and valuable online courses that I have experienced thus far. The content was laid out in a very linear fashion, each lesson progressed either chronologically (e.g. providing context for different eras of product development) or scaffolding concepts. The instructor did a nice job of providing relevant examples to undergird the concepts. He also went above and beyond in providing links to the references and additional resources. The multiple choice questions required that the learner pay attention throughout and revisit the content. Overall, the course was exceptional. I will be a better leader for having participated.
Jason Kloth
This course has really exposed me to the rudiments of product management and innovations associated with creating a genuine customer value through feedbacks. Undergoing this course is the most resourceful thing I have done in the year 2020. I hereby recommend this course for team leaders and those professionals who are hungry for achieving resulud
Babawale Oluwas
I highly recommend this course!!! Not only because it is part of the Product Management Program I'm taking, but it gives you a deeper understanding how the market works and how important Agile Systems is for businesses.
Daihne Cortes
Excellent Course if you want to learn the basics of Agile and DevOps In Project Management. This course provides comprehensive learning of key concepts related to Agile, Lean and Devops Technology along with great real life examples given by the Tutor Mr. Johnson. I would highly recommend to this course to students and Project Managers looking to gain a new perspective in Project Management.
Ritesh Daundkar
I really enjoyed this introduction to data science and DevOps and plan to continue to learn more about these subjects! At this point I plan to complete the fifth course in the UMD program on Product management, and recommend both that program as well as their Agile program (both available on edX). As someone with a PMP, it was a great way to maintain my certification (PDU's!) but was also a change to learn new techniques I can apply in our organization.
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Syllabus

Week 1

Module 1: Agile Systems Engineering

Week 2

Module 2: DevOps Principles for Business Agility

Week 3

Module 3: Data Science for Product Risk Management

Week 4

Module 4: Implementing Data-Driven Controls using Technology and Teams

Job Outlook

Project Manager jobs are expected to grow by 33% over next 10 years

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Program Project Manager income is $60k to $100k based on industry

Payscale.com

You can earn $10,000 more as an Agile Project Manager

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Corporate Endorsement

Supporting US military efforts require accuracy and efficiency. We are passionate about it. In keeping with the integrity of our Nation’s military men and women, it is imperative that we provide them the best technology imaginable. The Agile Project Management program provides clear direction to channel team efforts in a more concise manner. I highly recommend this program to any organization relying on teams to get things done.
Debbie Gray, Director of Human Resources, GTMR Inc.
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