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Product Management Fundamentals
Future Skills Short Course

Product Management Fundamentals

Deliver the desirable, feasible, and commercially viable digital products. Learn how to consistently adopt a product-led focus to enable scalable solutions at every stage of the product life-cycle.

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Level up your skills and qualifications as a digital native

Teaming up with the best in industry, our Future Skills courses lean into the future of work to deliver the best in structured, mentor-supported, 100% online education.

Product managers play a critical role in business as the leaders of the vision, strategy, design, execution, and optimisation of new and established digital products. The product management skills benchmark report states that 1 in 5 products fail to meet customer expectations, making a well-performing product-manager, a great product vision, and a solid launch even more critical. As a product manager, you’ll possess a diverse skillset and wear multiple hats including data analysis, product optimisation, stakeholder management, product lifecycle management, and more. 

Whether you're looking to upskill or transition into the role of a product manager, this course will provide you with the end - to end skills to deliver and optimise successful digital products. You'll explore product market fit, a go-to market strategy, product roadmaps, product delivery, and more. 

Course Overview

Learn more about our Product Management Fundamentals course in the video below.
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Anyone who wants to get into product, it's great! We need more product managers.It's still a pretty young industry.Product management's a rapidly growing fieldit's becoming more more mature in terms of the definition of the role.Any organisation that chooses to take on a product manageris recognising and saying:"Yes, the success of our products in our business is important."A product manager is there to beconsuming and collecting all of the informationfrom all of the stakeholdersto build a prioritised roadmap around what it is you need to doto drive success.There are product managers who are deeply technicaland are often building technical products,or there are product managers who tend to be focused onconsumer facing problems.You could be in client meetings one day,you could be only fixing bugs the next day.No two days are really the same.I think that's what people like about it:you could be doing anything day to day.

Career Outlook

Take a closer look at what opportunities in the Product Management Fundamentals field.
Job satisfaction
Product Management Fundamentals have a job satisfaction of 4.0/5
Industry growth
22.3%
Predicted job growth in 5 years
Salary expectations
The typical salary for a Product Management Fundamentals role is
$125k
Job opportunities
In Australia, there are
2800+
jobs available

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Course Structure

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Module 1: What is product management?

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  • Explore various product types and the role of a product manager
  • Understand the different stages of the product lifecycle 
  • Identify the key parts of a Lean canvas to help articulate goals for your initiative 
Learn with industry experts
Jay Stansell

Founder at ProductCoalition.com

Jay Stansell has a breadth of experience taking products to market, being a two-time business owner, having started three startups and also having digital experience across three businesses. With a customer focus, Jay respects the governance and people leadership required to take a product from idea to execution.

Brett Robert

Senior Product Manager at Envato

An experienced Product Manager with over 8 years product delivery experience working for large eCommerce websites, incubators and start-ups. A skilled people manager with a foundation in Product Management, Business Analysis, Project Management and UX. Using data and research to drive opportunities, collaboration and facilitation to drive outcomes, MVP...

An experienced Product Manager with over 8 years product delivery experience working for large eCommerce websites, incubators and start-ups. A skilled people manager with a foundation in Product Management, Business Analysis, Project Management and UX. Using data and research to drive opportunities, collaboration and facilitation to drive outcomes, MVP and hypothesis driven development to reduce risk and deliver better results for the business and it's users.

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Our learner success team are here to help you with 1:1 coaching, tips on how to successfully study online, and any questions or concerns you may have. 

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Develop skills that have been validated by industry, while getting credentialed by a world-leading university.

Industry connected

You'll gain knowledge and practical skills from renowned industry partners who are at the forefront of their field.

Flexible delivery

Advance your career while you study. RMIT Online courses let you balance work, study and life commitments.

Supported community

Be guided by a network of industry experts and peers, and supported by our dedicated success team.

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