In this Software Product Management Specialization, you will master Agile software management practices to lead a team of developers and interact with clients. In the final Capstone Project, you will practice and apply management techniques to realistic scenarios that you will face as a Software Product Manager. You will have the opportunity to share your experiences and learn from the insights of others as part of a Software Product Management
I throughly enjoyed the course. All the the quizzes were not very easy and not very tough and used presence of mind. Course was very simple and application for the was also given.
Good course! Excellent to reinforce my knowledge on scrum, xp and agile. In the end however I think that the content was somehow repetitive, but this not change the quality of the course.
It was a fantastic course that gives a peek of the real-world problems and processes in product management. It was a great learning experience with peer-graded assignments and the graded quizzes.
Great Agile techniques to learn from this course !! Useful for those who want to brush up on their product management skills as well as those who want to launch themselves in this career stream.
Very informative and thorough about the importance of Metrics, monitoring, Reviews, and retrospective in order to improve processes for upcoming and ongoing projects.
Great introduction to agile practices and software product management. This course also lays a comprehensive plan for the rest of this specialization from University of Alberta.
Very well done! The instructors covered a lot, their course notes are incredibly helpful, and plenty of supplementary material is provided. One of the better Coursera courses I've taken.
It's a solid addition to get the specialization certificate. I may give it 4.5+ stars, but the course resources are exceptional - its like they wrote their own textbook almost.
In some of the assignments, the marking rubrics specify requirements that weren't outlined in the initial question, which I thought was a little unfair, but not a big deal.
Kudos to all the tutors! Really insightful and amazing course. It taught me about the best practices for software project planning, and management.
Very solid, blank-slate introduction to software product management. Excellent focus on the real agile principles (which often go forgotten or unmentioned in "agile" product management teachings.)
This course is very helpful and it provides a lot of information about software processes and agile practices. I recommend anyone interesting in development to take this course
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This specialization does nothing to prepare you for a job in product management, it barely scratches the surface of the requirements for even a PM internship (most of which require an MBA anyway). I invested a significant amount of time and effort into completing this specialization and found out all of my effort was a complete waste when it came to start job hunting. While it may be useful to understand some of the foundational concepts, the basics can be easily taught in the first week on the job. What employers are really looking for are hard skills like Scrum certifications, quantitative analytics, SQL fluency, data visualization, and a thorough understanding of business metrics, none of which this specialization covers.
Course title is misleading. It is actually a course on Managing Agile Software development, not Product management.
There is common understanding in active product management community that major focus for product manager is market. Market is not mentioned in this course at all.
What requirements and schedule, guys??? Current product management is all about hypotheses, A/B testing, customer development, experiments, lean UX, etc.
You completely missing the point.
Still, this course can be a good one for those who want to start Managing agile software development.
This course is excellent. It's difficult, but students learn by watching University of Alberta videos and third-party TED talks, as well as by reading interesting and crucial textual materials.
The course is wonderful for a beginner to get his/her concepts right before diving into software product management.
This course was an excellent way to begin immersing myself into the specialization. I am new to this field but can imagine myself using much of my printed out material as future reference
Ancient course without any renewals. Wasted time and money.
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The course was very interactive, useful and interesting. I can definitely apply the knowledge that I gained out of this course to my day on day work on Software Management. Kudos to the production and
Excelent to understand the foundations of product lifecicle
not too much knowledge grow
Excellent Introduction to basics of Software Development Process !
I am 10 years experienced software professional, and can truly certify the elements mentioned in the course. Also having said, it is a good refresher as some of the topics are not strictly followed by industry leading to issues after a couple of months.
Would recommend for everyone !
NOTE: A more practical example of end -end journey would be super helpful - Pratik D
Indeed a great Course to Start with. If you are new to Software Product Management Field, this course will help you understanding the process and basically identifying the role of Product Manager/Analyst. The course carries the depth knowledge, I rate this course 10/10. I am planning to cover all the 6 courses from this specialization.
This course explained to me comprehensibly what a Product Manager does which is already a good thing to start from.
In addition it really gave me some insight into modern ways of managing a development team.
Therefore I would recommend that course to anyone working as a developer and not knowing what these "PMs" are doing.
I think it was a short but to the point course to teach you the basics and importance of client requirements, following processes and agile development methodology which are crucial elements in becoming a successful product manager. Sincere thanks and Cheers to the team from University of Alberta for creating this course!
This is an awesome intro to SW product management. It points out the main difference between SW product management compared to product management of other industries. Specifically, Change.
It is a great way for experienced product managers of other industries to transition into the SW business.
This course introduces the concept of product management and how it applies to a agile software development. A focus it lacks is the introduction of managing a product such as design, roadmap, etc. and also the lack of focus on design.
Great！I have some understanding about software product management. Continue to learn, let's go!
Curso muito bacana mostrando a introdução do Gerenciamento de Produtos de software!
Muy bueno
Several links did not work. And I find some of the questions to be ambiguous, maybe the way I am thinking and/or because of a language barrier (we interpret the questions differently).
Great for complete beginners to understand what is Software Product Management is about. I'd prefer more additional resources and real cases though.