The Art & Science of Product Management (Coursera)

Featuring NANCY WANG, Head of Data Protection Services, Amazon Web Services; Founder and CEO, Advancing Women in Product; SANDY CARTER, Vice President for Worldwide Public Sector Programs, Amazon Web Services; PRANAVA ADDURI, Software Engineering Manager, Amazon Web Services; MINMIN YANG, Principal UX Lead, Amazon Web Services; WAHAB OWOLABI, Founder, OneReq; Diversity Business Partner, Facebook; SHARMEEN CHAPP, Vice President of Product & Engineering, Twitch Community; EJ EMEAGWALI, Product Manager, Samsara; former Product Manager, Google and Microsoft;

STEPHANIE NEILL, Senior Director of Product, Twitch Commerce; GEORGE ELISSAOIS, General Manager & Director of Product Management, Amazon Web Services; NANCY RILEY, Vice President & General Manager of the Ecosystem Product Group, Hubspot, and SABRINA FARMER, Vice President of Engineering for Site Reliability, Google Products.
What You Will Learn

- Leading Designers.Learn basic design concepts. Understand differences between designers and PMs, and how those differences promote synergy.

- The AI-ML-Powered PM. Learn the difference between AI, ML, and deep learning. Spot examples of how AI might supercharge your products or PM work.

- Leading Engineers.Learn basic software engineering concepts. Understand differences between engineers and PMs, and how to promote synergy.

- Ace PM Technical Interview Questions. Use basic engineering concepts to answer real PM interview questions from Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.

Course 3 of 4 in the Real-World Product Management Specialization.

Syllabus

WEEK 1

Leading and Collaborating with Designers

As a PM, lead and collaborate with designers on your team! With Nancy Wang and Minmin Yang, Principal UX Lead at Amazon and Adjunct Professor at Bentley University.

WEEK 2

PMing with AI and Machine Learning

As a PM, understand how AI, ML, and deep learning works, and opportunities to deploy them! With Nancy Wang and Sandy Carter, Vice President for Worldwide Public Sector Programs at Amazon Web Services.

WEEK 3

Leading and Collaborating with Engineers + Acing the PM Technical Interview Question

As a PM, understand and collaborate with engineers on your team! Also: master the technical PM interview question. With Pranava Adduri, Software Engineering Manager at Amazon and Director of Programming at AWIP.