Rapid Experimentation for Product Managers: Know Before You Build

3 Weeks

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Cohort-based Course

Learn rapid experimentation to validate product ideas in-market, reduce risk, & build what customers want, saving time and money.

Worked with

Roche
Thomson Reuters
USAA
Target
Audible.com

Course overview

Master Rapid Experiments-Validate Product Ideas, Reduce Risk, Build What Matters

In today’s fast-paced, uncertain markets, successful product managers must validate ideas quickly and efficiently to stay ahead. This course, Rapid Experimentation for Product Managers, equips you with the essential techniques to test and refine concepts before investing significant time and resources.


Brought to you by Moves The Needle, we've built the world's leading innovation practices, helping Fortune 100 companies launch products and drive business impact quickly. Now, this course brings those methods and mindsets, previously only available to our corporate clients, to you.


You’ll learn how to minimize risk by understanding customer preferences and make data-driven decisions throughout the product lifecycle. By mastering these rapid experimentation methods, you’ll ensure that your products align with market needs and deliver real value. You will also elevate your career potential with a unique, difference-making skill set.


Join us to build what truly matters—faster and smarter.

Who is this course for?

01

Product Managers: Learn to validate ideas quickly, minimize risk, and make data-driven decisions to build customer-focused products.

02

Innovation Leaders: Manage innovation pipeline by refining product ideas in-market with precision, ensuring alignment with customer needs.

03

Process Leaders: Master rapid experimentation to test concepts, save resources, and build efficiency.

What you’ll get out of this course

Master the approach we’ve guided Fortune 100 companies to adopt for driving innovation

Using our proven tools and methods, you will dramatically reduce time to market and product success.

Reduce risk by learning to identify, prioritize, and mitigate potential risks before full scale development

You will learn how to identify potential risks through hands on practice.

Gain insights to discover market opportunities and validate customer needs, ensuring your product drives business impact

Our unique "zoom & loop" approach help you ensure you nail the specific experiments needed to achieve product-market fit.

Develop a systematic approach and mindset for making data-driven decisions throughout the product lifecycle

Stay agile and pivot based on market evidence and evolving landscapes with rapid experimentation becoming a normal way of working.



What’s included

Live sessions

Learn directly from Kavita Appachu & Mike Kendall in a real-time, interactive format.

Lifetime access

Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.

Community of peers

Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.

Certificate of completion

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

Maven Guarantee

This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.

Course syllabus

2 live sessions • 48 lessons • 2 projects

Week 1

Oct 7—Oct 13

    Igniting your Entrepreneurial Spirit

    4 items

    The Power of Rapid Experimentation - Overview

    4 items

    Zooming-in: Your Customer & Their Need

    2 items

    Refining Your Solution Idea

    5 items

Week 2

Oct 14—Oct 20

    Oct

    18

    Interactive Session 1

    Fri 10/185:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

    Week 2: What to Expect

    1 item

    Prioritizing Assumptions

    7 items

    The Hypothesis Formula

    3 items

    Experiment Design: Types of Experiment

    8 items

    Setting Up Your Experiment

    3 items

    Running Your Experiment

    2 items

Week 3

Oct 21—Oct 25

    Oct

    25

    Interactive Session 2

    Fri 10/255:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

    Week 3: What to Expect

    2 items

    Interpreting Results

    1 item

    Making a Decision

    2 items

    Building the Experimentation Roadmap

    2 items

    Making it a Habit

    4 items

Post-course

What people are saying

        Evidence-based decision making is key to new product development. In this course I particularly like MTN's powerful approach on rapid experimentation based on riskiest assumptions.
Jörg Hächler

Jörg Hächler

Head of Innovation Management, Roche Diagnostics
        Overall content is an A+, love what the team has done here.
Shannon Wagers

Shannon Wagers

Corporate Talent Development Master Trainer, Procter & Gamble Leadership Academy
        This course does a great job of introducing the foundational concepts of rapid experimentation and helps you learn how to apply them in an easy way. Individuals and teams can get their feet wet, build their confidence and ask lots of questions. Product teams need this ability to succeed in today’s rapidly changing environment.
Kathy Kirkendall

Kathy Kirkendall

Product Manager, One10
        This course positively changed my approach to experimentation & testing. It equipped me with valuable tools to determine what truly works in the market. MTN helped me cultivate a new perspective, hone my skills, & develop habits that significantly enhanced my effectiveness as a PM. Truly transformative.
Aditi Gupta

Aditi Gupta

Senior Product Manager - Digital Activation & Conversion, Thomson Reuters

Meet your instructors

Kavita Appachu

Kavita Appachu

As CEO of Moves The Needle, Kavita drives transformation and product innovation through customer-centric collaboration. She partners with companies of all sizes to tackle growth challenges, fostering new leadership skills and a culture of continuous innovation. Kavita has unlocked the entrepreneurial spirit in leaders and teams at organizations like Intuit, Target, Roche, Charles Schwab, AARP, USAA, Audible, and P&G, coaching them to embrace change, take risks, and deliver value-driven solutions.

Mike Kendall

Mike Kendall

Mike, a principal at Moves The Needle, is a seasoned global product innovation consultant, advisor, coach, and speaker, known for driving large-scale product, culture, and customer experience transformations across industries. He has partnered with leading brands like ING, Citi, Capital One, Intuit, Roche, Humana, P&G, USAA, Thomson Reuters, 7-Eleven, Google, and Amazon, guiding teams and leaders in adopting Human-Centered Design, Lean Startup, Agile, Strategy, Change Leadership, HR optimization, and Process Excellence.

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