Product Management Courses

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

• Agile with Atlassian JiraCourseraAtlassian's own course on running agile work in Jira, covering the agile mindset, Kanban boards, Scrum and sprints, then the configuration side with Jira Query Language, filters, issue types, epics and permissions. It closes with a capstone where you set a project up from scratch. Practical for a product manager who has inherited a Jira instance somebody else configured.Self-paced online course with a capstone projectAround 1 week at 10 hours a weekdeliveryscrumtechnicalPriceFree to enrol, payment only for the certificateLevelBeginner, no prior experience required
• AI Product Management SpecializationCourseraDuke's three course series on managing machine learning products, covering machine learning foundations for product managers, running machine learning projects, and the human factors that decide whether people trust an AI system. It explains enough of the technique to let you scope a model-backed feature and follow what the team tells you. Free to work through unless you want the certificate.Self-paced online, three coursesAround four months at 5 hours a weekaitechnicalfoundationsPriceFree to enrol, payment only for the certificateLevelBeginner
• Digital Product Management SpecializationCourseraAlex Cowan's series from the University of Virginia, covering modern product fundamentals, how agile and design thinking fit together, hypothesis-driven development, product analytics and running an agile team. The assignments produce artefacts you can take back to work, including team charters and customer-focused design narratives. It has been on Coursera long enough to have a large body of reviews behind it.Self-paced online, five coursesAround four weeks at 10 hours a weekfoundationsdiscoveryexperimentationPriceFree to enrol, payment only for the certificateLevelBeginner
• Google Advanced Data Analytics Professional CertificateCourseraThe follow on to the Google Data Analytics certificate, covering statistics, regression analysis and an introduction to machine learning in Python. It assumes you already understand data types, integrity and cleaning, so it is not a starting point. Product people working near models or running experiments will get most from the statistics and regression material.Self-paced online, seven coursesUnder six months at 10 hours a weekdataexperimentationtechnicalPriceCoursera subscription at $49 per month after a 7 day free trialLevelAdvanced, assumes foundational analytics knowledge
• Google Data Analytics Professional CertificateCourseraNine courses taking you from what data is, through cleaning and analysis in spreadsheets and SQL, to visualisation in Tableau and R. For a product manager the payoff is being able to pull and sanity check your own numbers instead of waiting in an analyst's queue. The final course is a case study you can talk about in interviews.Self-paced online, nine coursesAround six months at 10 hours a weekdatametricsfoundationsPriceCoursera subscription at $49 per month after a 7 day free trialLevelBeginner, no degree or experience required
• Google Project Management CertificateCourseraSix courses covering project initiation, planning, execution and Agile delivery. Widely used as a first credential by people moving into product and delivery roles.Self-paced onlineAround six months at 10 hours a weekfoundationsdeliveryPriceCoursera subscription, around $49 per monthLevelEntry, no prior experience assumed
• Google UX Design Professional CertificateCourseraEight courses running from UX foundations through wireframes and low fidelity prototypes to research, testing and high fidelity design in Figma. Learners finish with three portfolio projects, which is the part that matters for people changing career. Coursera states that most learners spend under $300 in total.Self-paced online, eight coursesAround six months at 10 hours a weekuxdesignfoundationsPriceCoursera subscription at $49 per month after a 7 day free trialLevelBeginner, no degree or experience required
• IBM Product Manager Professional CertificateCourseraA seven course entry route covering product management foundations, stakeholder collaboration, initial strategy and planning, developing and delivering a product, and an introduction to agile and Scrum. It closes with a capstone and a practice exam for the AIPMM Certified Product Manager credential, though the real exam is bought separately. Graduates get an IBM digital badge, and the programme carries academic credit recommendations.Self-paced online, seven coursesAround three months at 10 hours a weekfoundationscareerdeliveryPriceFree to enrol, payment only for the certificateLevelBeginner, no prior experience required
• Inspiring and Motivating IndividualsCourseraMichigan's course on setting a shared team vision and turning it into goals people will actually pursue. It works through the tension between goals that are measurable and goals that are motivating, then looks at how intrinsic and extrinsic motivators differ across cultures. Free to work through, which makes it a low risk way to test whether formal management study suits you.Self-paced online courseAround two weeks at 10 hours a weekleadershipteamsPriceFree to enrol, payment only for the certificateLevelBeginner
• Interaction Design SpecializationCourseraUC San Diego's series on human centred design, running from needfinding and design principles through prototyping and evaluation to a capstone project. It asks you to produce and critique real designs rather than watch someone else do it, so the time commitment is genuine. Product people who want the reasoning behind design decisions, rather than tool training, get the most out of it.Self-paced online, eight courses and a capstoneAround three months at 10 hours a weekdesignuxresearchPriceFree to enrol, payment only for the certificateLevelIntermediate, some related experience expected
• Introduction to NegotiationCourseraBarry Nalebuff's course from Yale, built on the theory of the pie as a way of arguing about what a fair split actually is. It covers your BATNA and reservation value, and what to disclose when the other side knows things you do not. Negotiation runs through product work constantly, from vendor contracts to trading roadmap slots with another team.Self-paced online courseAround three weeks at 10 hours a weeknegotiationcommunicationleadershipPriceFree to enrol, payment only for the certificateLevelBeginner
• Introduction to User Experience DesignCourseraGeorgia Tech's short tour of the user experience cycle, covering requirement gathering through observation, surveys and interviews, then designing alternatives, prototyping and evaluation. At six hours it works as an evening of orientation for a product manager who has never been taught the vocabulary. The material is free unless you want the certificate.Self-paced online courseAround 6 hoursuxfoundationsresearchPriceFree to enrol, payment only for the certificateLevelBeginner, no prior experience required
• 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