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IBM Product Manager Professional Certificate
IBM

IBM Product Manager Professional Certificate

Prepare for a career as a product manager. Gain the in-demand skills and hands-on experience to get job ready in less than 3 months. No prior experience required.

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IBM Skills Network Team
Daniel C. Yeomans

Instructors: John Rofrano

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4.7

(405 reviews)

Beginner level

Recommended experience

Flexible schedule
3 months, 10 hours a week
Learn at your own pace
Prepare for a degree

What you'll learn

  • Apply key product management skills, tools, and techniques to engage and manage key stakeholders and clients

  • Identify product strategy development and implementation methods and best practices to ensure the right product is produced

  • Describe product development and analysis best practices to effectively manage change and ensure a successful product launch

  • Develop a working knowledge of Agile and adaptive methodologies used to expedite product solutions to market

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July 2024

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What you'll learn

  • Summarize the roles, responsibilities, skills, competencies, and knowledge requirements for a product manager’s success.

  • Examine the end-to-end product management lifecycle and the role the product manager plays that drives product success.

  • Investigate “value creation” and the contributions of the product manager that potentially add value to a product.

  • Compare and contrast possible career paths in product management and the certifications that will help you progress in the field.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Product Concept
Category: Product Management
Category: Product Plan
Category: Swot Analysis
Category: Project Charter

What you'll learn

  • Apply essential communication and collaboration skills critical to product success

  • Develop interpersonal and business skills essential for product management

  • Analyze various product management communication challenges and identify the impact of communication styles

  • Examine a case study and evaluate both its strengths and areas for improvement and then offer actionable recommendations

Skills you'll gain

Category: Product Management
Category: Value Proposition
Category: Product manager
Category: Product Management Lifecycle
Category: ProdBOK

What you'll learn

  • Identify the product concept using tools and techniques

  • Perform a product external assessment and internal assessment and record your findings in a SWOT template

  • Analyze market and solution requirements and develop a market requirements document (MRD)

  • Develop a product roadmap and perform a financial analysis using a business case

Skills you'll gain

Category: Product Planning
Category: Communication
Category: Leadership
Category: Product Management
Category: Stakeholder Management

What you'll learn

  • Develop a comprehensive product development and launch checklist to enhance success potential

  • Define the required key pre-launch and post launch planning activities to ensure market readiness

  • Review a beta testing checklist to effectively acquire customer feedback and determine key issues that must be addressed

  • Use a checklist to determine overall launch readiness and steps that must be taken to move to the Deliver phase

Skills you'll gain

Category: Product Management
Category: Certified Product Manager (CPM)
Category: Product Lifecycle
Category: Product Management Lifecycle
Category: Test-taking Strategies

What you'll learn

  • Adopt the 5 practices of Agile, a subset of DevOps: small batches, minimum viable product, pair programming, behavior- and test-driven development.

  • Write good user stories, estimate and assign story points and track stories using a kanban board. Incorporate Scrum artifacts, events, and benefits.

  • Create and refine a product backlog using the sprint planning process. Produce potentially shippable product increments with every iteration.

  • Create burndown charts to forecast the ability to meet a sprint goal. Use metrics to enhance performance, productivity, and client satisfaction.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Product Delivery and Retirement
Category: Product Management
Category: Market Validation Activities
Category: Product Launch Activities
Category: Product Development

What you'll learn

  • Apply your product development lifecycle knowledge and prepare the key artifacts required to complete each phase.

  • Demonstrate product management proficiency by creating selected artifacts such as product concept, requirements, end-of-life plan.

  • Illustrate your product management skills and accomplishments through the development of a personal portfolio.

  • Evaluate your readiness to pass the AIPMM Certified Product Manager (CPM) certification exam.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Product Strategy
Category: Product Management
Category: Product Owner
Category: Agile Product Development
Category: Product Lifecycle

What you'll learn

  • List test eligibility and application requirements for the Certified Product Manager (CPM) examination

  • Recall testing options, testing content, and testing strategies for the CPM certification exam

  • Evaluate your CPM exam readiness by passing a 40-question practice exam

  • Demonstrate your preparedness for the actual CPM examination by passing a timed 120-question mock exam

Skills you'll gain

Category: Kanban
Category: Zenhub
Category: Scrum Methodology
Category: Agile Software Development
Category: Sprint Planning

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When you complete this Professional Certificate, you may be able to have your learning recognized for credit if you are admitted and enroll in one of the following online degree programs.¹

 
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This Professional Certificate has ACE® recommendation. It is eligible for college credit at participating U.S. colleges and universities. Note: The decision to accept specific credit recommendations is up to each institution. 

Instructors

IBM Skills Network Team
IBM
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Daniel C. Yeomans
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