Digital Product Management

Product Manager is one of the hottest positions in the emerging digital economy.

The Product Manager is essentially the “CEO” of a digital product. They understand and articulate needs; set up roadmaps, plan and coordinate the development process; champion and launch products and oversee the product life cycle. They are the implementers of ideas in digital business innovation.

In this Product Management MicroMasters program, you will gain hands on experience in:

• Creating product roadmaps
• Taking products from initial concept through user research, co-creation, and rapid prototyping
• Agile and lean management practices for creating software and digital products
• Social media and market testing methods
• Applying perspective from best practices in platform based strategies.

The MicroMasters program concludes with two courses that leverage object oriented thinking, digital process capabilities, and data analytics tools to build “boundary-spanning” skills in running, measuring and adapting strategic experiments that may lead to novel products, business models and market growth.

Learn how to use lean, agile and systems design thinking in all aspects of the digital products lifecycle.

Learn how you can design, launch, monetize and compete in a networked platform market.

Learn how to drive social media engagement by linking strategy and tactics and measuring results.

Learn how to apply principles of experimentation at the technical, organizational and strategic levels of your business to drive digital innovation.

Learn how to lead your firm to make better business decisions using analytic methods and create competitive advantages from data.