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Product Management II: Deciding What to Build

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Learn what to build, in what order to release it, and how to test it. Starting from taking apart a familiar app, you will carry one idea through defining the problem, narrowing the scope, prototyping with AI and testing with real users.

01Part 1: Deciding what to build

Session 1What is product management? What changes and what does not
Session 2Taking apart a familiar app in four layers
Session 3Whose problem, and which problem, to solve
Session 4Narrowing down to the one question worth solving
Session 5Forming hypotheses about solutions
Session 6Deciding what to build and what not to build
Session 7Midterm: the plan on one page

02Part 2: Building and testing

Session 8How to delegate work to AI
Session 9Building something that works in 30 minutes
Session 10Designing a test: write the success criteria first
Session 11Testing with real users

03Part 3: Agreeing and moving forward

Session 12Breaking metrics down into a tree
Session 13Reaching agreement around a working prototype
Session 14The roadmap and the product requirements document
Session 15Final pitch and oral examination