Driving Business Impact for PMs

4.7 (26)

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4 Weeks

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Cohort-based Course

Up-level your PM career by shifting your thinking from outputs to outcomes and ship features that deliver results for your company.

With students from

Microsoft
ServiceNow
Google
Electronic Arts
Intel

Course overview

Move from feature factory to customer outcomes and drive impact in your business

Product teams often get stuck focusing on outputs and predictable delivery (what and when am I building a thing) instead of outcomes (what will change as a result of building this thing). This leaves out the critical element of making sure you are building the right (most impactful) things in the right way.


Jon's has 25+ years of experience in technology companies from CNN to Google, and has created this course to provide you with a comprehensive set of tools to help you develop impactful products by shifting from output-based thinking to outcome-based thinking. You will deepen your understanding of your customers and their needs as well as identifying and de-risking the different kinds of hypotheses built into your roadmap.


You will also work to understand how your work contributes to your company's strategy. You will learn and apply frameworks to ensure your features solve user problems that drive business impact which connects all the way up to your company's goals.


We will also help you develop successful products by understanding customer needs, identifying opportunities, managing risks, and creating value for customers.


Using a combination of lectures, interactive hands-on exercises, and case studies from Airbnb, Dropbox, Zappos, and more, the course will focus on practical application and provide you with the skills and knowledge necessary to level up and apply these tools in real-world product management scenarios.

Who this course is for:

01

You're a senior product manager who wants to delivering outstanding impact and business value to your users and your business.

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You're an early career PM and want to level up your career and understand how to deliver business impact.

03

You're a startup founder who wants to validate ideas and develop products that meet customer needs and create value for them and your biz.

What you’ll get out of this course

Learn how to prioritize the most impactful opportunities to move the needle for your business

You will learn how to identify the most impactful opportunities using Impact Mapping and other framing techniques and shift from output orientation ("what are we building?") to outcome/impact orientation ("what will change as a result of building these things?")

Grow your user empathy and customer discovery skills

You will learn how to better understand users and the problem space they are working in through Journey Maps that are customized for Product Managers

Understand the risks and hypotheses built into your roadmap

By making explicit the different hypotheses in your plan and identifying the riskiest ones, you will be able to quickly validate the riskiest assumptions and improve your outcomes.

Understand how your features tie in to the company goals

By working through user outcomes and how they drive business outcomes, you will be able to clearly tie your features to user behavior that drives business results.

Create actual artifacts for your products

The course is designed to provide you with practical experience applying these tools to real-world product management scenarios. You will build actual journey and impact maps for your actual users & products.

Learn from an industry expert with 25+ years of experience

You will benefit from an instructor who has seen product management done well and poorly in his career as a product leader and consultant. Learn best practices and traps to avoid from companies like Google, CNN, Ford, and numerous startups and midsize companies.

Boost your career

By developing these skills, you can enhance your PM career prospects and become a more valuable member of your product teams.

Become a part of a community of impactful product leaders

Learn with and from our community of product leaders from companies like Google, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, and ServiceNow both in the course and in our community Slack channel for class alumni.

This course includes

4 interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

9 in-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

3 projects to apply learnings

Guided feedback & reflection

Private community of peers

Course certificate upon completion

Maven Satisfaction Guarantee

This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Jan 10—Jan 12

    Journey Mapping

    • Jan

      10

      Session 1 - Outside-in and Outcome Orientation, Customer Journey Maps

      Fri 1/105:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
    3 more items

Week 2

Jan 13—Jan 19

    Impact Mapping - Principles

    • Jan

      17

      Session 2 - Impact Mapping

      Fri 1/175:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
    3 more items

Week 3

Jan 20—Jan 26

    Hypotheses and Confidence/Risk

    • Jan

      24

      Session 3: Operating In Uncertainty

      Fri 1/245:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
    4 more items

Week 4

Jan 27—Jan 31

    Impact Mapping - Quantification and Refinement

    • Jan

      31

      Session 4: Impact Mapping Part 2 - Quantification and Confidence

      Fri 1/315:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
    1 more item

Bonus

    Bonus Material

    1 item

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What students are saying

Meet your instructor

Jon Harmer

Jon Harmer

Product Management Leader

With more than 25 years of experience, I feel like I've seen it all, having founded startups, turned around companies (or failed to), and led product teams and created products within companies such as Google, CNN, Home Depot, Ford, and Bank of America. I've created products from scratch, launched features to a customer base of over 2 billion active users, and more than doubled revenue for existing products. I've been responsible for growing CNN's breaking news subscribers over 1200% while simultaneously reducing delivery times by 75%. I've held the title of founder, Vice President of Enterprise Product Management, CMO, Director of Product Management, Senior Product Manager, Vice President of Marketing, and Director of Product Marketing. I have a background in the entire company lifecycle from founding to acquisition over my career. I developed products across a number of verticals/industries, including SaaS, telecom, marketing technology, financial services, online media, healthcare, retail, automotive, and public safety. I have coached and mentored hundreds of Product Managers and founders around the world through Google, Techstars, and Georgia Tech.


I am a former chef who became a product management and marketing leader for technology companies. Yeah, it surprised me too :D. I'm also an Atlanta native, where I live with my wife and four children and I hold an MBA from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University, and a Bachelors of Science in Management from Georgia Tech. I'm also on a quest with my wife to run a half marathon in each of the 50 states. So I've got that going for me, which is nice.

Free resource

How to Measure Your Product's Business Impact

Tie your work to business impact

  • You will learn how to identify the most impactful opportunities using a framework called the Impact Map


Outcomes over Outputs

  • Lead your teams by explaining the "Why" (Outcomes) of the work instead of just the "What" (Outputs)


Grow your user empathy and customer discovery skills

  • Better understand users and be "outside-in" with your thinking

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Course Structure

8 hours

  • Live Sessions

    Four 2-hour blocks

    Four two-hour live sessions where you will learn with a group of peers via framework overviews, case studies, group discussions and live instructor feedback.

  • Projects & Exercises

    2 hrs

    Key Exercises:

    • Creating your own Customer Journey Map
    • Creating an Impact Map
    • Developing your Hypotheses
    • Quantifying your Impact Map
    • Assigning Risk to your Impact Map
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Driving Business Impact for PMs

Cohort 9

$699

Dates

Jan 10—31, 2025

Payment Deadline

Jan 9, 2025
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What people are saying

        I knew Jon was skilled from the very moment of our first meeting. He showed professionalism, job knowledge and was impressive. He basically taught me how product management should be run, how the role should be implemented in a company and has a clear vision on where to take companies in terms of product management.
Fred Martin

Fred Martin

Vice President, Technology and Solutions Development, Managed Care of North America (A United Health Group Company)
        Jon is a great example of a true Product Management professional. I've always been impressed with how he constantly stays in tune with the pulse of the markets for which he's responsible. Jon has a natural affinity for keeping one eye on the horizon while commanding the day-to-day activities to prepare for his vision.
Fallon Jensen

Fallon Jensen

Group Product Manager, YML; former PM@ Life360, LogMeIn, GoToMeeting

Learning is better with cohorts

Learning is better with cohorts

Active hands-on learning

This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects

Interactive

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and live workshops

Learn with a cohort of peers

Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you

Frequently Asked Questions

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Join an upcoming cohort

Driving Business Impact for PMs

Cohort 9

$699

Dates

Jan 10—31, 2025

Payment Deadline

Jan 9, 2025
Get reimbursed

$699

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