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Surviving and Thriving in Product Management

Product manage your career to become a product leader.

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Course overview

Surviving and Thriving in Product Management

A 3-week-long hands-on workshop-style course with Anshumani, who has had the good fortune of working with great product managers throughout his career at places like Zynga, Cuemath, Disney+ Hotstar and Google.


Who is this course for

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Mid-Career Product Managers

You have 2 to 8 years of experience as a product manager but don’t know how to go further in product management

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Senior Product Managers

You are figuring out how to break out of the bunch and position yourself as a product leader

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Founders

You are a founder who is also leading the product charter at your organization and struggling to balance various responsibilities

Topics covered

Measure your current level of impact

Have meaningful conversations with your manager about your aspirations

Create a backlog of all the things you want to achieve in your product management career

Imbibe various frameworks to view your career from different perspectives

Build a decision tree around the type of product management career you want 

Arrive at a multi-year roadmap for your product management career

Course Overview

See what people are saying

        I had the privilege of working with Anshumani at Zynga where he was a top-notch game designer. His strong analytical bent combined with his creativity made him an exceptional product person and leader. I have subsequently interacted with Anshumani on several projects in addition to having him be my "go-to" expert for all things product!
Harsha Kumar

Harsha Kumar

Partner, Lightspeed India Partners Advisors
        Customer empathy, storyteller par excellence and deep-rooted product fundamentals are what comes to mind when I look back at my experience working with Anshumani. A good product manager must blend data, process, customer thinking, domain thinking, business thinking and be able to talk up and down the organization. He is as generous as he is wise!
Akash Saxena

Akash Saxena

Head of Technology, Disney+ Hotstar
        Navigating the PM career ladder can be hard because there are a lot of dimensions to it. Anshumani brings a beautiful understanding of what matters at different times. Learning how to build delightful products early on, to aligning stakeholders and then managing PMs.
Piyush Narwani

Piyush Narwani

Co-founder, Aerotime
        As a young PM a decade back, I wish something like this was available then. I struggled with how to plan my career in product leadership rather than being a cowboy and "take it how it comes". Knowing Anshumani and how purposefully he coaches, I can’t recommend this more.
Anuj Rathi

Anuj Rathi

SVP Revenue and Growth, Swiggy
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After taking this course you will confidently arrive at a multi-year roadmap for your product management career and be better equipped to influence decisions and create an impact on your organization. 

Course syllabus

8 live sessions • 14 lessons

Week 1

Feb 22—Feb 27

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    21

    Session 1

    Mon 2/211:30 PM—3:30 PM (UTC)

    Feb

    23

    Guest Speaker 1

    Wed 2/231:45 PM—2:45 PM (UTC)

    Feb

    25

    Session 2

    Fri 2/251:30 PM—3:30 PM (UTC)

Week 2

Feb 28—Mar 6

    Feb

    28

    Session 3

    Mon 2/281:30 PM—3:30 PM (UTC)

    Mar

    2

    Guest Speaker 2

    Wed 3/212:30 PM—1:30 PM (UTC)

    Mar

    4

    Session 4

    Fri 3/41:30 PM—3:30 PM (UTC)

Week 3

Mar 7—Mar 12

    Mar

    7

    Session 5

    Mon 3/71:30 PM—3:30 PM (UTC)

    Mar

    11

    Session 6

    Fri 3/111:30 PM—3:30 PM (UTC)

Bonus

    Kick-off: Cohort Onboarding + Measure Your Impact I

    Meet your entire cohort - you are going to be spending the next 3 weeks with all of them and learning from each other's experiences. We start sharp at 7 PM IST.

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    Guest Speaker: Akshay Bharadwaj

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    PM Career Paths

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    Decision Making

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    Guest Speaker: Harsha Kumar

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    Meaningful Conversations

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    Skills Matrix of a Manager

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    Backlog and OKRs

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    Guest Speaker: Jitendra Agrawal

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Meet your instructor

Anshumani Ruddra

Anshumani Ruddra

Anshumani has spent the last 18 years crafting experiences and products for users: first as an author of children’s books, then as a game designer on some of the world’s largest social games (Mafia Wars, Cafe World, etc) and then as a product manager across various consumer-tech businesses (gaming, messaging, healthcare, education, media and now fintech) in India and globally.

Learning is better with cohorts

Learning is better with cohorts

Active learning, not passive watching

This course focuses on live workshops and hands-on projects

Learn with a cohort of peers

You’ll be learning in public through breakout rooms and an engaged community

Learn with a cohort of peers

Surround yourself with like-minded people who want to grow alongside you

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