Lean/Agile Product Management

This course is designed to give participants a practical overview of the modern lean/agile product management paradigm based on contemporary industry practice. We cover the complete lifecycle of product management, from discovering your customers and users through to sales, marketing and managing teams. We'll take an experimental approach throughout, showing how to minimize investment and output while maximizing the information we discover in order to support effective decision-making. During the course, we'll show how to apply the theory through hands-on collaborative problem-solving activities. There will also be guest lectures from industry experts.

All students must attend at least one of the first two weeks of class in order to stay enrolled, due to mandatory group work assignments. No exceptions will be made.

In 2015, 2016, and 2023, this course was offered for 2 units.