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Lean Product Portfolio Management

Lean Product Portfolios: Beyond Value Stream Mapping

The approach to creating a product portfolio delivering exponential value must transcend the obvious by incorporating a deep understanding of customer behavior, shaping the trajectory of the business and understanding emerging trends in technology, marketplace and the competitive landscape in local and global context.

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What You Will Learn

  • Learn and manage foundational elements of scaling products
  • Build and manage a portfolio of related and unrelated products
  • Identify new product opportunities with adjacency to existing product portfolio

About This Course

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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 Lean Product Portfolio 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

Tushar Rathod

I love addressing highly complex challenges currently facing the leadership ranks in corporates, academia, government and non-profits. I help large organizations scale product mindset through IT modernization, product-centric approach, composable architecture & enterprise agility.

What Our Students Are Saying

This is a great course to learn the technical aspects of Agile project management and John Johnson is a coherent and concise lecturer delivering high quality lessons. I took the verified track as I will be handling more projects in my role as a university learning developer.
Neill Wylie
I enjoyed the course and learned a lot. The only thing that I might suggest is highlighting new terminology in a separate "dictionary" as some terms were new or maybe industry-specific and I sometimes lost my concentration when trying to figure them out. I liked that the class used real-world examples and suggested further reading and videos.
Serena Bonini
This course will definitely give you a real-world approach on using Agile and all the kinds alike - from the comparison between Traditional, Agile, and Lean, the overview of each method. This course also dives into the framework Agile uses, such as Scrum, DAD, LeSS, and all the pros and cons each of them has. Simply said, highly recommend!
Kevin Samuel
The "paid" track has additional information and I like the PPT slides, bonus! This is helpful if you need to go back and review information later, maybe referencing another course or work issue. Whatever your role, I think this is really helpful for anyone in software! I think the final is great because you do go back and look things up that you may have forgotten early on in the first week. You can save your answers and go back. I needed that flexibility. I like the casual aspect of this course.
Kimberly Eck
The course teacher/instructor in the videos was delivering the information in an inspiring way. The slides and the summary tabs were very helpful. The course is a good introduction to agile on a high level. Basic terms, roles, and frameworks are explained and compared. The test questions in the final exam supported the learning progress, as many of them were presented in a form where the student has to apply the knowledge, not only repeat what he/she has learned/heard.
Ninja Leikert
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Syllabus

Week 1

Value Creation Framework

Create a shared understanding of what value is, identify value creation opportunities in the market place and shape solutions

Week 2

Enterprise Architecture

Understand and align the needs of the customer (Customer Journeys) to business operations (processes and capabilities) to the IT systems (applications and services) that power them

Week 3

Product Operations

Understand User Experience Research &

DesignDesign and build foundational elements of product management discipline that product teams can adopt

Week 4

Product Lifecycle Management

Build a deeper understanding of what it takes to successfully navigate a product from 0-1, to a full-featured product, to product retirement

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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