edX Professional Certificate Programs

Product Management

Product Design, Prototyping, and Testing

Translate product ideas into tangible assets by creating wireframes, 3D renderings, prototypes, and minimum viable products (MVPs) to test assumptions and validate customer interests.

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What You Will Learn

  • Development processes and organizations. The customer needs process, Lean UX, diagrams, sketches, wireframes, prototypes, and emerging technologies.
  • Concept generation and selection. Defining product specifications, establishing target specifications, and setting the final specifications.
  • Product design and architecture. Industrial design, design for the environment, and design for manufacturing.
  • Principles of prototyping and user experience. Planning for prototyping, service design, mapping the user experience, and anatomy of an experience map.
  • Wireframing and prototyping models. Product architecture, choosing a wireframing/UX prototyping tool, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and Web Design Lifecycle, and open source.
  • Robust design considerations. Robust design process and version control.
  • Testing and troubleshooting. Red team and blue team, recovering from disaster, and strategies for recovery.
  • Project management. Guidelines for project planning and project execution.

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 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

Cait von Schnetlage

Ms. von Schnetlage specializes in product and project management. She is highly adept at translating highly complex organizational needs into quantifiable specifications and applying hypothesis testing to ensure accuracy and requirement validation.

What Our Students Are Saying

It was clear and interesting for someone with no background in Product Management. I am pretty sure, I would not have completed the course without her sense of humor.
Arthi Duraisamy
I have learned useful information with this course. Now I am a Ph.D. student in Business Administration and I'm interested in marketing practices with my studies. I advise all Business Admin students, managers and marketing professionals to take this course.
Anonymous
The course provides some helpful information in an engaging way - I will bring a lot of the topics I've learned to my organization!
Anonymous
Really enjoyed the interaction of the presenter, the examples and visuals that made it much easier to absorb and remember. This was a more technical module for me, but it got my brain working and thinking in different ways. Well presented!!
Anonymous
This course provided a lot of key information for entrepreneurs gaining some insight as to how to bring together UX and engineering. The instructor had a great sense of humor as well! I really enjoyed her teaching style.
Anonymous

Syllabus

Week 1

Module 1: Development Processes and Organizations

Week 2

Module 2: Concept Generation and Selection

Week 3

Module 3: Product Design and Architecture

Week 4

Module 4: Principles of Prototyping and User Experience

Week 5

Module 5: Wireframing and Prototyping Models

Week 6

Module 6: Robust Design Considerations

Week 7

Module 7: Testing and Troubleshooting

Week 8

Module 8: Project Management

Job Outlook

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

PMI.org

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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