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This course covers techniques for monitoring your projects in order to align client needs, project plans, and software production. It focuses on metrics and reviews to track and improve project progress and software quality....

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VS

Jun 2, 2020

Does let you know practices that help in making the right product that is managed right and done right, with retrospective techniques that can be implemented after the project is completed.

SJ

Jun 28, 2023

Good course to understand the various Agile process to track a project and to improve the process. The graded exams have a good bit of scenario based questions to think and apply the same

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By Константин К

Sep 15, 2017

Good of reviews. A few of metrics

By Baby J M

May 21, 2017

Very helpful training. Thank you.

By Pratik

Aug 4, 2020

Include a practical video

By sumit a

Apr 3, 2019

very Helpful

By Raghu K V

Mar 18, 2016

Good Course.

By AYAN R

Jun 21, 2021

good course

By Chanchal D

May 9, 2020

Thank You

By Jose H L

Dec 24, 2016

excelente

By Duy P

Jul 15, 2017

good

By Freek d B

Dec 22, 2018

It's challenging to teach and learn product management through an online course. You can get an overview of the important topics and learn the theory, but this doesn't enable discussion, exchanging experiences, and forming balanced opinions. A product management does a lot of her/his work by talking (to many different people involved), which is very difficult to train online (it could be done with role playing assignments supported by video conferencing, but I think learning from experienced colleagues in practice is a much better way). The quizzes are often a good way to rehearse the topics that have been explained, but sometimes feel like an extremely simplified black-white view on very nuanced issues.

The best parts of the Software Product Management courses for me were the larger assignments you make that are reviewed by fellow students (getting feedback is very useful and it's also instructive to see what approach your peers took) and the interviews with experienced product managers which offer valuable insights in the complicated situations product managers often have to deal with.

I recommend this course to anyone that is new to software product management and quite new to software development. The course can be a good first step on your path to becoming a product manager, as long as you realize that you will also need a lot of skills that an online course cannot teach you.

By Bobby S

May 17, 2020

I think the lesson about Project Retrospective is too "theoretical" instead of applicable. I don't known n the real world industry outside my country (Indonesia), I have been in few companies and discussing about project retrospective with my colleague in the same fields, this is quite "awkward" to be done.

And I think you should also include more examples of business metrics that widely used for software product like CVR (conversion rate), TPV (total purchase volume), Chunk Rate, etc

By Oleksandr K

Apr 25, 2018

I feel the information given in this course would have been better served in parts of other courses. Comparing to other courses in this specialization, this one felt very dull and not useful on its own.

By Karin K

Jul 30, 2021

It felt like less effort was put into this course when comparing to courses 1-4. Sound quality was not consistent

By Han Y W

Mar 20, 2016

Should include recent material. A reference book from 2001 is very out of date, especially in the software world.

By Abdullah S

Jun 20, 2020

Needs improvement. All previous courses are excellent. Not this one, however.

By Hugo A C G d S A

Feb 25, 2017

There was some nice content, but not practical enoough

By Hussein H

Mar 7, 2016

More assignments would help reinforce learning

By Medhat M

Aug 14, 2018

Too boring course...

By Mostafa I

Mar 27, 2018

ambiguity language

By alex b

Mar 13, 2021

Interesting at times, but the course content itself had some issues in terms of presentation, particularly with the way questions were asked about visualizations but the image couldn't be viewed while answering the question. Would have been nice to see some other tools e.g. "burn-up charts" as well.

By Alberto C

Aug 27, 2018

A course rich of concepts but slightly too flat compared to the previous courses. I found it difficult to remember so many notions without actual exercises except the final quizzes

By Mylène R

Mar 2, 2016

Way too shallow and way too english :(

By Mathieu

Apr 4, 2018

Repetitive and too basic

By Dionysia A

May 19, 2019

It's a boring lesson, only for beginners. You don't learn something new if you have been working at least 1 year in product management.