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CPM-FCertified Product Manager FoundationCPM-ECertified Product Manager EnterpriseCPLECertified Product Leadership ExecutiveCAPDSCertified AI Product Development SpecialistCPXSCertified Product Experimentation SpecialistCPDXCertified Product Discovery ExpertCKMSCertified Kanban Management SpecialistCCNSCertified Customer Negotiation SpecialistCCXSCertified Customer Experience SpecialistCDTSCertified Design Thinking Specialist
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Who it is forYou have just taken over a productYou already manage a product and decide under constraintsYou already answer for results beyond your own teamYou have already shipped an AI featureYou design and interpret experimentsYou decide what goes into the product planYou work inside a flowYou negotiate with external customersYou answer for the experienceYou run it without a design background
Domains
  • The product manager role
  • Customer, user and persona
  • Market, competition and segmentation
  • Discovery and validation
  • From idea to solution
  • Agile work and delivery
  • Product life cycle and metrics
  • Product strategy and vision
  • Market, competition and positioning
  • Value proposition and scope decisions
  • Customer, segment and journey
  • Prioritisation, backlog and delivery
  • Metrics, goals and product performance
  • Product life cycle and release decisions
  • Product strategy and competitive positioning
  • Portfolio and investment allocation
  • Product economics and business results
  • Product organization design
  • People leadership and succession
  • Executive influence and board communication
  • Governance and product system operation
  • Discovery and opportunity framing
  • Feasibility and approach selection
  • Data, context and privacy
  • Quality evaluation
  • Experience under uncertainty
  • Inference economics
  • Launch and monitoring
  • Governance and responsible use
  • Experiment design
  • Metrics, instrumentation and unit of aggregation
  • Sizing, sensitivity and duration
  • Threats to validity
  • Analysis and interpretation of results
  • Methods without full randomisation
  • Decision and experimentation programme
  • Problem framing and opportunity definition
  • Quality, sufficiency and independence of evidence
  • Collecting from people: interviews, observation and response bias
  • Participant selection and representativeness
  • Demand signals, willingness to pay and false positives
  • Deciding under uncertainty: proceed, pause or drop
  • Discovery as a continuous operation
  • Fundamentals and principles
  • Visualisation and system design
  • Flow and work limits
  • Metrics and predictability
  • Classes of service and prioritisation
  • Cadences and roles
  • Adoption and evolutionary change
  • Fundamentals of negotiation
  • Preparation and planning
  • Styles and self-knowledge
  • Influence and persuasion
  • Communication, listening and emotion
  • Running the table
  • Conflict, power and relationship
  • Fundamentals of customer experience
  • The customer journey
  • Touchpoints
  • Metrics and indicators
  • Data, information and capabilities
  • A customer-centred culture
  • The strategic people cycle
  • Fundamentals and mindset
  • Framing the challenge
  • Immersion and research
  • Synthesis and definition
  • Ideation and co-creation
  • Prototyping
  • Testing, decision and implementation
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