Product Management Foundations
TRAINER-LED WORKSHOP | 2 HALF DAYS | REMOTE
BOOK NOW | At a glance | What you’ll learn | Remote format | Why MTP?
Why choose Foundations?
If you’re a working product manager in the early stages of your career it’s difficult to understand what to focus on first – our remote Foundations sessions will help you master the skills you need to excel in the craft of product management.
Key takeaways
💡 Know you’re doing the right stuff
Get a firm understanding of your role as a product manager – know you’re asking the right questions, and gain the confidence you need to make those all-important decisions.
🧰 Enhance your toolkit
Learn the core overarching product processes needed for getting a good product out of the door, including the key skills, tools, and frameworks required and how to decide which ones to use and when.
🤝 Master those all-important people skills
Learn how to hone your product management core team communication skills, how to think about “culture as product”, and in turn foster a team that is geared towards continuous improvement.
At a glance
- Duration: 2 consecutive half-day sessions
- Format: Remote, interactive training – online lectures interspersed with regular discussion, Q&As and group activities to encourage hands-on learning, using Zoom and other digital collaboration tools
- Who is this for: Working product managers with ~6 months to 1.5 years in the role
- Key skills learned: Design thinking practice, customer discovery, user interviews, backlog creation and management, core team communication, confidence building
- Frameworks covered: Personas, wireframes & prototypes, interview guides, lean testing, user stories, retrospectives
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Our remote trainer-led courses are exempt from VAT
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What you’ll learn
Product Management Foundations is a remote training workshop taking place over two half-days. Each module includes a lecture component on theory and practice, interspersed with hands-on activities where you’ll work through your own product challenges. This means that you will have the opportunity to apply and work with concepts in a setting that will answer questions and facilitate critical thinking.
Product Development Lifecycle
- The stages of the product lifecycle and how they fit into your role
- Learning Mindsets and how they apply at each stage of the product lifecycle
- Evolving your craft as a product manager
Goals Alignment
- OKRs vs. KPIs vs. Metrics
- Breaking down business goals for your product
- Aligning the team and organisation around goals
- The difference between business goals and product outcomes
Hypothesis and Testing
- Crafting an effective hypothesis
- Ways to test your hypothesis
- Planning a valuable experiment
- Different type of experiment
- Components of a user interview and when to use them
- Conducting user interviews and avoiding bias
Product Roadmapping
- Understand the purpose of a roadmap
- Determine the right structure for your product roadmap
- Facilitate a collaborative roadmap creation and update process
- Identify outcomes and themes out of features and solutions
Leading Product Teams
- How to lead without authority
- Cultivating psychological safety
- Nurturing creativity
How does remote work?
In order to continue offering product management training in a safe environment for our attendees and trainers, we have devised this new interactive, remote workshop format, run as two consecutive half-day sessions.
You can focus all of your time and energy into two concentrated half-days of product learning, and as with our in-person workshops, you’ll get full access to our tried-and-tested Foundations curriculum, expert trainers, and a community of product peers.
Each half-day will include live online lectures interspersed with regular discussion, Q&As, and group activities to encourage hands-on learning. We’ll use Zoom and other digital collaboration tools.
To keep you energised and engaged, we’ll also run warm-ups and icebreakers, and take regular breaks.
Please note: This workshop is run as two half-day sessions and you must attend both parts
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Hands-on & interactive keyboard_arrow_right
Each workshop module contains an interactive component. This ensures that you have an opportunity to apply and work with each concept you learn about in a setting that will answer questions and facilitate critical thinking. We don’t think you can be “taught” product management, you have to do it – there will be virtual Post-it’s, our group collaboration tool (Mural), and group discussions – which really help you to internalise the concepts you are being taught and return to your role to put into practice straight away.
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Every Mind the Product trainer is a working product manager. Your trainer’s product management experience enriches the curriculum by delivering diverse perspectives on best practice in different scenarios. Our trainers’ main goal is not to provide participants with all of the answers, but help facilitate them in asking the right questions.
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Up-to-the-minute curriculum keyboard_arrow_right
The Mind the Product training curriculum is treated as a product in itself. We keep all of our content up-to-date with the latest thinking and research, and iterate regularly, meaning that what we are teaching is always current.
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Every workshop is a chance to (virtually!) meet your peers and share knowledge. As well as learning from your trainers, you’ll also learn from your fellow participants, hearing examples of product practice and challenges from a wealth of perspectives, industries, and levels of experience.
And of course, once your workshop has come to a close it doesn’t stop there – there is still learning to be done via our blog, at our global ProductTank meetups, our conferences, and in our Slack community. In short, you’ll feel fully supported through your learning experience with us because you’ll have this wonderful product community at your fingertips.
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By product managers, for product managers keyboard_arrow_right
Mind the Product started with the first ProductTank meet up in London in 2010 with the simple aim of bringing together product managers to connect, share, and learn from each other. We are now the biggest product management community in the world and our aim has not changed. We are product managers at heart with the sole aim of making product people more successful and building products people love!
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This is just the beginning keyboard_arrow_right
We offer training for all levels of experience for product people at all stages of their career. If this is the start of your Mind the Product Training journey then together we have a great adventure ahead of us – we’ll nurture you along the way and give you the confidence you need to become an amazing product manager. And it all starts here…
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