Product Management in Practice

Provides practical understanding of how to plan, align, test, launch and manage products effectively.

Effective product management is all about maximising product profitability at all stages of the product lifecycle. It combines deep customer insight with commercial understanding and cross functional collaboration to deliver value in a profitable way. This programme provides a structured approach to developing and managing products that meet market needs, align with organisational goals and achieve measurable success. It focuses on identifying opportunities, validating ideas and gathering evidence to improve decision-making. 

The course covers opportunity discovery, internal pitching and stakeholder alignment, as well as techniques for rapid testing, iteration and market launch. It also examines how emerging AI tools can support product managers in research, forecasting and optimisation to accelerate development and improve commercial outcomes. 

For those managing or developing products in B2B or B2C environments who want to apply practical frameworks, agile methods and AI tools to improve product performance, accelerate delivery and strengthen commercial outcomes. 

  • Identify opportunities for growth across the full product lifecycle 
  • Evaluate and prioritise new product ideas using structured assessment methods 
  • Adopt an evidence-based approach to pitching, prioritisation and decision-making 
  • Strengthen alignment between product vision, roadmap and stakeholder priorities 
  • Use customer discovery techniques to define clear value propositions 
  • Apply agile and lean methods to speed delivery and reduce development cost 
  • Establish product–market fit through co-development, prototyping and experimentation 
  • Plan effective go-to-market strategies linking product, price, place and promotion 
  • Evaluate where AI tools can optimise productivity and the customer proposition  
  • Set meaningful product and performance metrics (KPIs) to track progress and success 

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Intermediate
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2 Day Course Next start 20 Apr 2026
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