very good course, worth it!

Really Great Course!!

very good experience

Excellent course!

it's great design

it's insightful

the best course

Great Learning

Very useful!

very good

Great! :)

Good

The Course itself is great with many great topics. I thought have comments about the quizzes and assignments.

1. Assignments were great, they all pushed me to do some hand-on work and helped me learn, the very last one, "Competitive Analysis excel sample file, items columns B titles doesn't seems to match column C which are answers, as an examples, taget customers 13B, not showing anything other than a price screenshot in cell 13 C or D.

2. Quizzes: Quizzed in my opinion can be narrated more clear. Questions are not very straight forward and answers are too vague. Quizzed where somehow the discouraging part for me as they were taking so long time for me. I liked the random changes for every attempts but the answers were not consistent. Because some questions were too unclear, I had to take some quizzes more than 3 times, what surprised me was I noted down the wrongs answers to review them and next times I had to select different answers, finally the correct answer was the one which failed me at the first attempt and that double confused me, both the questions narratives, the answers and finally the wrong answer which became the right one. I appreciate if you rewrite the questions to be more clear, other than that the course was great and I like it generally. I didn't consider my review based on the quizzes at all. they were the one that a few times I decided to pass on the course and start a new one but I pushed myself to complete it regardless.

This course was very informative. The assignments were beneficial: structuring my product, creating a persona and roadmap, and learning how to manage market competition was good information for a beginner. The opportunity to keep the assignments for a portfolio is a plus.

One area of improvement for the course is the quizzes. At times, the questions appeared hard to understand. Particularly the Bar Raised Product Hunt PDR quiz. The true/false, clear/unclear structure of the questions was difficult to understand and answer, especially for someone with no design/engineering background. The Product Hunt example was my first time seeing what a "poorly done" or "rushed" PDR looks like. I took the quiz several times.

At times, the questions felt like trick questions. I got questions wrong because I was supposed to select more than one answer. Some of the questions indicated selecting all that applied and some questions did not. I had to find out on my own after getting them wrong. Addtionally, if I failed the quiz three times, I would have to wait 24-hours. It was nice that I could move on in the course; however, returning to attempt a quiz after 3, 6, or 9 times was an inconvenience.

Nonetheless, the interviews were so insightful. It was nice to hear what is expected from PMs from a CEO perspective.

Thank you! On to the next course!

Would be great to have some kind of a glossary or something for the terms mentioned. Nice delivery, I liked the instructor despite her manner of speaking and presenting the material.

General feedback to quizzes in this course: the timer in every question is very confusing. Please look up how Google made their quizzes and correct the way you’re showing the timer. It can modestly be on top of the page.

please look up the 'PM an International Hotel Brand Quiz' (!). In question 7 there’s a clear typo when choosing the right answer. despite i answered correctly, per notes under the grade, it shows that the answer is incorrect. Same quiz and questions about the journey map attached in questions 9 and 10. Are you serious? The quality of the picture is horrible and you’re asking the questions on what’s written in the picture? After just takling how important it is to keep in mind impairments the customer can have?

Quiz 'Competitive analytics basics': how am I supposed to understand what my mistake is if I get this: ‘Error while evaluating gradeAnswer: Cannot read property 'correctAnswer' of undefined’. Seriously, please, review your quizzes.

I loved the content and direction. I would give it a 4.5 stars out of 5. The only think that it lacked was that I felt it was a little to brief forexample, PRDs (you could have added the different types and detail of PRD to show when to use which in what context), Competitive Analysis Doc (provide some proper case study that you had done prior to this instead of a brief summary which would have allowed everyone to understand in greater detail with more examples of each section), similarly all the other topics could have provided an actual example instead of a hypothetical example with a lot of brevity and simplicity. Showing actual real work detailed examples instead of smaller examples could improve the course immensely. Thank you for reading this. Also since I would have completed the entire courses and so I wont be able to view any changes that you make to this course afterwards, I was also hoping that any changes you make eg to temples and examples please could you open those for the Alumnis who have completed this course. Thank you in Advance! Have a nice day! Regards, Syed Gardezi

=== Material ===

Good material, on a fairly introductory level, though. I hope there will be more in-depth information in the part 2 of this course. Part of this was already familiar to me (coming from a UX background).

Next to the frameworks and tools I would also like to hear how to do them well. For example, in the competitive analysis framework - what to look for when identifying the 'how to win'. That is, of course, a separate topic worth hours of material, but some tips would be nice. Or extra reading, perhaps?

=== Choice of case study ===

I feel I would have benefited from a real case from my clients, but the peer-reviewed part makes it impossible for me. I am not allowed to just share information on the client work that I do, so I had to come up with an imaginary product.

I got stuck on it for quite a bit, it became an existential struggle :) Coming up with an imaginary product to work on was pretty hard for me.

=== General ===

Overall, decent course. Looking forward to part 2! This is a great initiative, thank you a lot!

Nancy is great and is clearly knowledgeable and passionate about product management, which is exactly what you want in an instructor when learning a new topic for yourself. I learned a lot, but still left with a few questions unanswered. For example, at what point do each of the tasks reviewed come into play? It would be great to know, for example, if an incoming new PM is often expected to create a new competitive analysis, or is that usually grandfathered in? Are you creating a new competitive analysis with each new product, or feature? The customer personas seem loosely defined and not based on market data that has been gathered from vetted demographic information, yet some answers to the quizzes are suspiciously specific. It was never clear if you just make educated guesses on the demographics and stick to it, or if the information is actually coming from a reputable source. Perhaps these questions will be answered in the next installments of this specialization, but only time will tell!

The course content is good but there are a couple of things that could make this better. Pros: The quizzes and assignments were very good. They allowed me to actually step out of my comfort zone, get my hands dirty and try out things I had just learnt. The complexity level of the quizzes was high enough to get me thinking. I learnt a lot through the multiple attempts in the quizzes. The teach one, do one and learn one gave us enough diversity required to understand each concept. I liked the interviews as well. Cons: The instructor is not very engaging. It did not feel like teaching, it felt like reading out from a document which is something even the taker of the course could have done. I feel like there could have been more content to help us develop a product sense or approach. Maybe, what are the things you keep in mind when you are deciding a feature? The example of the visa card was really good but maybe more of such things to help us ask the right questions.

I took this course to better understand if Product Management was a good fit for me! I really enjoyed the content & I learned a lot throughout the course in terms of terminology, strategy, and what the job would entail. I especially appreciated the interviews with industry professionals, they made me feel more secure in my mindset.

I also really enjoyed the exercises to create your own product materials, I thought these were a great learning tool and I found them really enjoyable as exercises.

Through the course I occassionally did become frustrated specifically at the quizes. The quizes some times have questions that could be interpreted in multiple ways or actually have answers that don't make sense. I tried not to take the grade aspect of the course too seriously because of this, but it was frustrating because I felt like I couldn't learn from what I got wrong on the quizzes in instances where there were no right answers or answers didn't make sense.

Great introduction to customer persona, customer journey, PRDs, the very famous PRFAQs and Competitor Analysis. Some of the key takeaways for me were

"

So with empathy, put yourself in the shoes of a reader at their worst.

They're tired, hungry, overwhelmed with with everything else they have to read throughout their day.

So how do you write to them? "

and the point made by Coffee Meets Bagel about how it is important to observe customers because "context" in which the problems are met with or solved cannot be found in data.

Would suggest a few improvements -

1) Some of the learners simply copy the mock exercise from the template used in the exercise by Nancy Wang. There should be a way to rate these responses.

2) Somewhere during the course, it began to feel monotonous. If we could think of ways to break the monotony, it would be great.

The actual content is varied and moves quickly with lots of different exercises to expand your practical application. My biggest suggestion would be to improve the quiz questions and work with a curriculum designer who can write better questions (for example, don't include double negatives to confuse students). The content was great, the quizzes were rough. I also think some of the more business-specific exercises could use more clarity and exposure - that might mean building out the videos a bit more or inlcuding more in depth reading before the quizzes. Again, the quiz questions sometimes even required outside research that was not previously taught in the course. But for someone beginning in this field, the class is a fast-track to understand the industry lingo and how to apply even advanced concepts of product management.

The material covered in this course and the concepts one is exposed to is terrific: PRFAQs, TAM/SAM/SOM, interviews with CEOs and business leaders, and so on.

Straight talk: if you're interested in product management, this course is an excellent start and worth your time.

Two pieces of feedback for this course:

1) Production value: There are many, many jump cuts in the lectures and I'm not sure why given the otherwise excellent preparation that was done for the course.

2) Assignments are a bit of a mess since they seem to be peer graded. You may end up waiting numerous days for another peer to come along and grade your work, and you may be asked to grade another peer's work who simply gives you a Google Drive link with no permission to access it. Ultimately, the blame on this point may lie more with Coursea than the instructor.

This course was great to build confidence as a PM and understand the areas to put more focus on - e.g. working back from the PR and deeply understanding our customers through persona and journey mapping - and which areas I was already doing well in. The market sizing was useful and just what I needed to do for work!

The assignments were very, very useful.

What could be addressed more, early on, is the difference in the PM role at an early-stage startup vs. large companies like Amazon. Because a first-level PM at a startup has a broader remit (manages more than a feature), and also more time constraints so has to focus on prioritization.

I want to learn about roadmapping as well which is not covered in the course.

Thank you so much, Nancy and AWIT, for making this course available!

Overall it was a very interesting course. The first 3 weeks go through the very basics inc personas, customer journeys, etc. the last week was packed with useful information that i didn't have before. I liked that the course challenged you with many practical exercises. In the beginning I thought "this is going to take for ever!" but once i got stuck into it I quickly enjoyed completing my own and reviewing my peers assignments. In the end the assignments and the expert interviews were the most useful parts of the course, the teaching videos were interesting and nice and short. Overall a great course. Only feedback would be to spread out the content a bit more. Week 4 felt jam packed compared to weeks 1-3... maybe this was intentional?