Charlie O’Donnell from First Round Capital is offering a series of free Product Management classes at the NYU/Poly Incubator in downtown NY.  Each session will go over the skills necessary for a Product Manager.  I think these are great classes for a entrepreneur to take.  Typically when you start off, you’re the product manager in addition to whatever else you’re doing.  Sadly, I already missed the RSVP for the first session, but if I find some notes online i’ll repost it here.

Here’s the breakdown of the sessions:

Location:  NYU/Poly Incubator 160 Varick St., NY, NY

Session 1: Overview – 3/24

Talk 1: Understanding the responsibilities and limitations of a product manager: What are you supposed to own?
Tark 2: Good product management vs bad product management, and customer centric vs. market centric

Session 2: New Product Development – 4/7

Talk 1: Roadmapping: Scoping out requirements and priorities, minimum viable product. Limiting what you’re building and when to fill in the gaps.
Talk 2: Wireframes, specs, project management and brainstorming tools

Session 3: In mid-stride – 4/21

Talk 1: Building a product focused culture: Taking over PM for existing products and being a PM when there wasn’t one before
Talk 2: New features vs better features: how to balance improving what you have versus adding more

Session 4: Analytics – 5/5

Talk 1: Collecting data from users – interviewing, listening labs, customer development
Talk 2: Stats, funnels, graphs, A/B tests: What numbers should I pay attention to and how?

Session 5: Ups and downs – 5/19

Talk 1:  How to figure out when things aren’t working and how to pivot
Talk 2:  Product management when driving revenue is the goal: turning users into dollars

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