Highlights from my Product Management Course from Stanford University Continuing Studies
Intro I recently finished the Fundamentals of Product Management Course from Stanford University's Continuing Studies for Winter 2020. The 10-week course is fully online but what distinguishes it from other platforms (Udemy, Coursera) is the emphasis on forming a team and collaborating right from the start. This experience taught me once again about the importance of team dynamics, managing personalities, leveraging strengths, in addition to product knowledge. The highlight of the course was conducting user interviews for potential users of our product. I believe I learnt quite a bit from this course and hence sharing my learning below: Category-Defining Products Having spent a majority of my career building multiple products that never reached market-fit (i.e. failed) I have to specially thank the course instructor for putting those failed product souls to finally rest in their graves. I thought we were aiming for the moon: Now I realize, we were aiming at empty space (No market...