Product Management Courses

Cohort programs, workshops and self paced courses, with what each one costs and who it is pitched at.

• SAFe Product Owner/Product ManagerScaled AgileThe certification for product roles inside the Scaled Agile Framework, covering backlog ownership and forecasting, leading and supporting PI Planning, and keeping several backlogs pointed at the same business goals. The current AI-Empowered release adds material on using AI in refinement and prioritisation. The exam runs for 90 minutes and needs 82 per cent to pass.Course delivered by a SAFe Program Consultant, with a proctored examenterpriseproduct-ownershipcertificationPriceSet by the training providerLevelProduct owners, product managers and business owners in a SAFe organisation
• Scrum Open AssessmentsScrum.orgFree practice assessments covering Scrum, product ownership, developer practices, Kanban and Evidence-Based Management, drawn from the same subject matter as the paid certifications. They are the cheapest honest way to find out whether you are ready to sit a real exam. Each attempt shows which questions you got wrong, which is where the learning happens.Online practice assessments, repeatable as often as you likescrumcertificationPriceFree
• SQL for Data ScienceCourseraUC Davis starts with SELECT statements and data models, moves to filtering and sorting with WHERE, BETWEEN, IN, ORDER BY and GROUP BY, then covers subqueries and the join types. It is pitched at people who are not engineers and says plainly that no prior SQL is assumed. Free to work through unless you want the certificate at the end.Self paced online courseAround two weeks at 10 hours a weekdatatechnicalPriceFree to enrol, payment only for the certificateLevelBeginner, assumes no SQL knowledge
• SQL TutorialThoughtSpotThe SQL tutorial that began life at Mode and is now hosted by ThoughtSpot, running from basic SELECT statements through joins and aggregation to window functions and query performance. Every lesson runs against real data in the browser, so there is nothing to install and nothing to configure. It is the usual recommendation for a product manager who wants to write their own queries.Self paced tutorial that runs in the browser52 lessons across four sectionsdatatechnicalPriceFreeLevelBeginner onwards
• Startup SchoolY CombinatorY Combinator's free course on starting a company, with talks from partners and founders on planning an MVP, getting the first users and how modern seed funding works. Michael Seibel covers product and Gustaf Alstromer covers growth. Product managers thinking about founding something, or working somewhere that behaves like a startup, will recognise most of the problems.Self paced online course with a founder communityAround 7 weeks at 1 to 2 hours a weekfoundationsgrowthcareerPriceFreeLevelEarly stage founders and anyone curious about starting a company
• SVPG Product MasterclassSilicon Valley Product GroupThe public workshop from Marty Cagan's group, organised around the product operating model, how product creators and teams work, the strategic context leaders are responsible for, and discovery and delivery. Recent sessions add material on what generative AI changes in each of those roles. SVPG runs a private version for a single company alongside the open sessions.Live online workshop over three days3 days, around 15 hoursstrategydiscoveryleadershipPrice$1,995LevelProduct managers, designers, engineers and product leaders
• Team Kanban PractitionerKanban UniversityAn introduction to the Kanban Method and its six general practices, which are visualising work, limiting work in progress, managing flow, making policies explicit, establishing feedback loops and improving collaboratively. It also covers the Kanban meetings, how a pull system behaves and what lead time actually tells you. Kanban University suggests it for a whole team learning together, with the Kanban System Design course as the next step.One day course in person, or eight hours online1 dayflowdeliveryteamsPriceSet by the training providerLevelNo previous Kanban training or experience required
• The Skiplevel ProgramSkiplevelTechnical grounding for people who work with engineers without being one, covering applications and infrastructure, APIs and cloud, data and databases, and the software development lifecycle. Nothing assumes a coding background, and the goal is to follow and question a technical conversation rather than to write production code. Product managers who feel a step behind in architecture discussions are the intended audience.Self paced online with exercises and assessments5 modules, with 12 months of accesstechnicalcareercommunicationPrice$1,250LevelNon-engineers who work with engineering teams
• Toastmasters MembershipToastmasters InternationalStructured speaking practice through the Pathways learning paths, with prepared speeches, peer evaluation and impromptu Table Topics at every meeting. Members also take meeting roles, which is where the honest commentary on your own habits comes from. For anyone who has to present to executives, the value is weekly repetition in front of an audience that gives feedback.Club membership with regular meetings, online or in personcommunicationcareerPrice$72 every six months plus a $25 joining fee, with club dues on topLevelOpen to all