BECOME A CERTIFIED
TECHNICAL PRODUCT
MANAGER
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SYLLABUS AND
COURSE OVERVIEW
PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
Product Management is one of the fastest-
growing fields of this decade. The amount of
products created each day has surged thanks to
the low entry of creating minimum viable
products. websites and mobile devices.
CAREER GROWTH SALARY ESTIMATES GROWTH
Glassdoor puts the product Globally, the average base pay In the U.S. interest in product
manager position as the 3rd for a technical product manager management has doubled in the
best job in the United States. is $123,365 per year. last five years.
PRODUCT HQ
Founded in 2014, PHQ is a global leader in
Product Management training with a community
of over 30,000 product professionals.
Our training certificates and credentials are
internationally recognized across industries by
employers who are hiring product owners.
All of our instructors are real-world Product
Leaders working at top technology companies
including Google, Facebook, Netflix, Airbnb,
PayPal, Uber, and Amazon.
THE PROGRAM
Product HQ's Certified Technical Product Manager Course is a learning guide that bridges
the worlds of software development and product creation for anyone aspiring to lead a
technical team in product management. With over 140 interactive lectures split across
seventeen (17) units, the course provides you with the right balance of insight into software
development practices. With this course, product managers without a technical background will
feel more empowered when engaging with product engineers.
Our course helps you to make more confident decisions for the betterment of your product.
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MATERIAL EXPERIENCE CAREER SUPPORT
Acquire the knowledge, Learn by building your own Take advantage of our
frameworks, strategies, and real-world projects and immense networking
management practices that developing a technical product possibilities to secure
will make you a successful management portfolio. partnerships that last a
technical product manager. lifetime.
LEARN FROM THE BEST
ONLINE RESOURCES
We work with hiring managers and experts to
curate our curriculum.
GET GUIDANCE FROM OUR
COMMUNITY
Connect with a community of like-minded product
professionals who will help you on your journey to
becoming a world-class product manager.
NETWORK WITH YOUR PEERS
Take advantage of PHQ's exclusive networking
opportunities to carve a meaningful path for your
career development.
HOW IT WORKS
Signing up for our PHQ Certified Technical Product Manager Course is hassle-free:
✔ No prior PM knowledge required
✔ No course pre-requisites
✔ No prior PM work experience
Just follow the registration steps below to gain lifetime access to our course:
REGISTRATION
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Click the 'Enroll in Course' button on the page to be
redirected to the payment page.
INPUT PAYMENT INFORMATION
Create an account with PHQ that will enable you to log
in and view your course material. Be sure to introduce
your payment and billing information.
START LEARNING
Immerse yourself in the teachings of our expert
product management instructors. Don't forget to
complete your assignments and work on your
capstone projects.
CONNECT WITH THE COMMUNITY
Join our invite-only PHQ Facebook and Slack groups and
take advantage of a powerful network of tech-industry
leaders.
UNITS - OVERVIEW
Each unit of this course covers concepts, activities, skills, and responsibilities associated
with being a technical product manager. All units feature a combination of materials,
projects, lectures, theory, hands-on exercises, reading/viewing exercises, and career-related
coursework. The recommended time allocation is based on a total of fifteen (15) hours of
work and can also be scaled according to your student needs.
WHAT'S INSIDE?
1. PROGRAM & CAPSTONE PROJECTS
Ground yourself in an inherent purpose that will guide how you
approach this course and your long-term professional
development.
Discover the right mindset that will help you unlock your fullest
potential throughout this course and set you on the path to
becoming a world-class product manager.
Find out how you can take advantage of hidden elements within
yourself to push you forward and achieve your overall goals.
Get acquainted with our recommended Capstone frameworks
and lay a solid foundation to nail your personal project.
By the end of this module, you will have received a solid
introduction to our PHQ Product Manager Program as well as the
requirements of the Capstone project that you will be working on.
2. WEB APPLICATION FOUNDATIONS
Become fully acquainted with the fundamental elements that make
up software app design and development.
Gain a comprehensive understanding of the building blocks that
constitute front-end web development.
Learn how software engineers utilize Javascript as a programming
language to build products.
Get entry into the differences between client-side and server-side
software development as well as the fundamentals of Application
Programming Interface
3. FRONT-END FRAMEWORKS & LIBRARIES
Learn best practices used in software development to define web
application architecture that maximizes product usability.
Discover the frameworks, approaches, and techniques used by top
software engineers when using React, Angular, and Vue.
Gain a deeper appreciation for the differences between React,
Angular, and Vue as well as the specific circumstances in which
software engineers should leverage one over the other.
Learn how product managers can utilize their technical knowledge to
incentive greater product idea conceptualization.
4.BACK-END FRAMEWORKS
Get a comprehensive breakdown of how back-end web
development impacts the overall product creation phase.
Find out how software engineers employ Java, Python, Django, and
NodeJS (among others) to propel product creation and bring design
ideas to life.
Understand the advantages, disadvantages, setbacks, and
limitations associated with using particular software programming
languages and techniques within product development.
Learn about software databases and the role they play in facilitating
product sustainability, customer usability, and data storage.
5. MOBILE APPLICATIONS
Learn the fundamentals of Android Studio and its respective benefits,
setbacks, and limitations when building Android product
applications.
Discover the different techniques and approaches used by top
software engineers when constructing Hybrid applications.
Get a bird's eye view into the latest mobile application trends,
frameworks, and techniques that are expected to shape the future of
modern product development.
6. SOFTWARE OPERATIONS & DEVOPS
Compare and contrast traditional and more modern software
operation practices to gain a deeper understanding of how they
should be incorporated into your product management strategy.
Understand how leading DevOps practices can benefit the product
development process.
Learn how software developers leverage Github to facilitate the
storage, management, and tracking of product software coding.
Test your recently-acquired knowledge in our customized PMH Quiz
before moving on to the next module.
7. SOFTWARE OPS & CONTAINERIZATION
Learn how containerization can prove to be an asset to
software engineers during product development.
Discover the best practices leveraged by software engineers
during containerization.
Find out what product elements are typically included in a
containerization process as well as the technique that is used
with each one.
Gain a comprehensive understanding of Docker as well as the
way in which software engineers use it to create containers.
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8. SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE
Dive deeper into the world of software architecture and acquire a
greater understanding of its impact on customer experience,
usability, and product creation.
Differentiate between key software architectural frameworks used
for websites, mobile applications, and other software products.
Compare and contrast the benefits, drawbacks, and limitations
associated with a particular software architectural pattern.
Learn the software tools that top software engineers and technical
product managers must master when building out software
architecture.
9. PLATFORM PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
Learn the challenges associated with platform product
management as well as the best approach to dealing with each one.
Get a deeper understanding of the skill set that is required of a
technical product manager when managing platform products.
Dive into the benefits and drawbacks of the main types of platform
products as well as the recommended approaches for product
development for each particular platform product.
Test your recently-acquired knowledge in our customized PHQ Quiz
before moving on to the next module.
10. PRODUCT ANALYTICS
Gain a deeper understanding of the importance of product analytics
and its impact on determining product success.
Learn how to set objectives and goals that can be adequately
measured to gauge product success.
Find out the metrics that top product managers pay attention to in
order to maximize the amount of valuable insight that can be
extracted from product analytics.
Get a product expert's opinion on the most popular frameworks
used to analyze and track product performance.
11. PRODUCT EXPERIMENTATION
Learn the way in which product managers balance the need to
maximize the impact of their product with the requirements of the
product's business model.
Master the best techniques leveraged by leading product managers
to validate product ideas.
Gain a comprehensive understanding of the product manager's role
in crafting product roadmaps.
Learn frameworks and techniques that assist products managers in
creating product roadmaps that maximize the output from a
product team while allowing for a certain margin of flexibility.
12. PRODUCT SECURITY & DATA PRIVACY
Learn the fundamentals of product security and privacy.
Gain a greater understanding of the vulnerabilities and risks
associated with particular software products.
Find out the main types of security attacks as well as the strategies
put in place by the software development team to fortify product
security ahead of time.
Learn more about SSL Certificates as well as the reasons why
technical product managers should leverage them during the
product development phase.
13. SYSTEM DESIGN
Gain a deeper understanding of system design terminology such as
'load balancer', 'throughput', and latency' as well as the impact that
each one has on the way in which a technical product manager
approaches product development.
Learn about the fundamentals of caching as well as PHQ's approved
strategies to ensure that data is safely and securely stored away.
Acquire the knowledge needed to lead software teams when
designing Instagram-dependent products.
Test your recently acquired knowledge in our customized PHQ Quiz
before moving on to the next module.
14. ADVANCED CAPABILITIES
Learn more about machine learning software as well as how it can
be incorporated as a product feature.
Discover our PHQ-approved strategies for augmented reality (AR)
and virtual reality (VR) implementation and performance tracking.
Find out circumstances surrounding Blockchain integration within
software products as well as the benefits associated with this type
of software practice.
Get an expert's perspective of Bitcoin product development as well
as the best practices associated with this type of software product.
15. NEGOTIATION & PERSUASION
Find out how you as a product manager can effectively leverage
pricing strategies to maximize projected product revenue earnings.
Learn the correct frameworks and strategies that will help you to
better manage product stakeholders.
Learn how to win over both product team members as well as
senior management on your product ideas and management
approaches.
Build your communication skills and acquire new frameworks that
will help you to transmit your product ideas and suggestions with
greater confidence.
14. RESUME & INTERVIEW
Discover the most typical ways in which recruiters structure their
interviews.
Learn an innovative framework to help you feel more confident
when answering questions in your interviews.
Find out the best possible answers to key technical product
manager interview questions.
Run through simulations of technical product manager interviews
to help you develop the right approach to facing difficult or
unexpected recruiter questions.
TESTIMONIALS
DEVELOP PORTFOLIO-WORTHY CAPSTONE PROJECTS
The best way to learn product management is by working on projects. With Product HQ, in
addition to small projects designed to reinforce specific technical concepts, you’ll complete two
capstone projects focused on realistic product management scenarios that you can show to future
employers. Moreover, you'll actually build a product with engineers, product designer, and CTO.
YOUR CAPSTONE PROJECTS
1. PRODUCT STRATEGY
Your first capstone is where you apply a Product Guiding
Framework to take an idea and develop an execution-ready product
strategy.
You'll learn how to:
a. Identify problems worth solving
b. Perform industry analysis
c. Choose user needs that make the biggest impact
d. Validate your product ideas
e. Conduct user interviews
f. Learn the best Ethical Behavioral Design practices
g. Set up customer segmentation, targeting, and positioning for
your product.
2. PRODUCT METRICS CAPSTONE
You'll learn how to:
a. Identify success criteria for your product
b. Choose the right analytics framework
c. Measure your customer outcomes
d. Identify and measure counter-metrics and integrity metrics
3. PRODUCT EXECUTION CAPSTONE
You'll learn how to:
a. Setup product experimentation
b. Design wireframes and prototypes
c. Create product prioritization and roadmaps
d. Setup product growth and launches
4. CAREER CAPSTONE
You'll learn how to:
a. Optimally position yourself within your field
b. Leverage social media to grow your professional reach
c. Develop a long-term product career strategy
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
When does this course start and finish?
This course is intentionally structured to be completed over the span of one month. It is self-paced
- you decide when you start and finish, but we encourage you to complete 5 - 10 hours/week.
How long do I have access to the course?
How does lifetime access sound? As mentioned before, we are 100% committed to adding even
more bonus content (we love all things product and enjoy adding content!) as well as bonus
interviews with awesome product leaders. After enrolling, you will have FREE LIFETIME ACCESS to
all of it for as long as you like - across any and all devices you own.
What if I am unhappy with the courses?
We would never want you to be unhappy! If you are unsatisfied with your purchase, Contact us in
the first 30 days and we will give you a full refund.
INSTRUCTORS
Primary Instructor: Dhaval Bhatt is a Product Management
Leader who has spent 15+ years as an engineer, founder, and
product management leader. He previously founded an
artificial intelligence company that won the IBM Global
Entrepreneur Award, Google Spark Award, NVIDIA AI Inception
Award, Strata-Hadoop Featured Data Startup, and Orielly Intel
Featured AI startup before being acquired by the Berkeley Data
Science Group.
He was a Sr. Product Owner for Data and Growth / Acquisition
Dhaval Bhatt at Lifelock and he’s currently a Product Management Leader for
Artificial Intelligence at Wells Fargo. He’s also an Instructor at
PM Lead @ Wells Fargo
UC Berkeley leading their immersive Data Science program.
Contributing Instructor: Kevin Lee is a contributing instructor.
He was previously a Product Manager at AltSchool and a Sr.
Product Manager at Kabam.
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