Product Manager Academy

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Product managers who drive strategy, development, and launch of products.

Setting strategic direction, making high-stakes decisions, and translating vision into execution.

Learn how to cut through the noise, prioritize for outcomes, align stakeholders, excite teams, and start executing in just 7 days.

Shardul Mehta

One Week Product Roadmap

Product Manager

Senior Product Owner

Senior Product Manager

Product Owner 

Learn a proven, practical system for connecting product decisions to revenue, growth, and business outcomes.

Founder, Street Smart Product Manager

Capital One

Amwell

Best Buy

Defense Digital Service

AKASA

Founder, Egress Solutions

Adobe

VMware

Bain Capital

Vista Equity Partners

Mike Smart

The bar for product leaders has never been higher.Executives expect you to drive growth, improve retention, make smart decisions, and prove the impact of your roadmap.At the same time, budgets are tighter, resources are limited, and stakeholder demands keep growing.You're expected to think like a business leader.But most product leaders were never taught how.Everyone says you should focus on outcomes instead of outputs.Yet few can explain which outcomes actually matter. Or how to connect product decisions to financial impact.Business Fluency for Product Leaders helps you transform from roadmap manager to business growth leader.You'll learn how to:<ul><li>Get executives aligned behind your roadmap.</li><li>Turn features into investable bets.</li><li>Connect product work to financial outcomes.</li><li>Make trade-offs based on business impact.</li><li>Tie decisions to the company scoreboard.</li></ul>This is a hands-on workshop built around real-world scenarios, practical exercises, and tools you can apply immediately.You won't leave with another product framework.You'll leave with a new way to lead product as a business.

Stop Acting Like a Roadmap Manager. Start Leading Growth.

Get Executives Aligned Behind Your Roadmap.

Turn Features Into Investable Bets.

Connect Product Work to Financial Outcomes.

Make Better Trade-off Decisions.

Lead Product as a Business Function.

You manage a team of PMs and are responsible for product strategy, priorities, and outcomes at a $50M - $750M B2B SaaS company.

You lead product managers at a B2B SaaS growth company.

You have 5+ years in Product Management and understand the fundamentals of the profession.

You have deep product experience.

You're open to new ways of leading product; not looking to validate your current approach or traditional practices.

You're ready to challenge your assumptions.

Product leaders in $50M–$750M B2B SaaS companies with multi-faceted product portfolios pursuing ambitious growth goals.

Directors, Heads of Product, and Senior Managers responsible for product strategy, roadmaps, and delivering outcomes.

Leaders of Product Teams who want to move from feature delivery to business impact and strategic decision-making.

Learn how to create an outcome-driven impact-inspiring product roadmap that will align stakeholders and excite teams! Struggling with any of these? * Juggling an in-the-weeds feature plan that doesn't sell the vision.* Trying to synthesize so much information and structure it into a visual roadmap that can align (and inspire!) stakeholders.* Finding signal from noise - make sense from the chaos to lead your team forward.* Have tried "templates" and "formulas" only to find they don't work.* Proving your value as a product manager that's respected for making an impact to your customers and the business. If you're faced with any of these challenges, this is the course for you! In this course, you'll learn practical ways to create a roadmap that aligns teams, sparks action, and drives real results. This isn't just a roadmap creation course. One Week Product Roadmap will transform you as a product manager, giving you the confidence to make smarter decisions as a product manager and own the room with your stakeholders. I've been in the trenches you're in, navigating the same challenges you are. That's why I've built this course to cut through the fluff and teach you battle-tested techniques that actually work - the kind that gets stakeholders aligned, energizes teams, and delivers customer and business outcomes that actually matter. You'll come out of the course not just with an actionable playbook, but a game plan for delivering products that matter and drive real results. HOW ONE WEEK PRODUCT ROADMAP IS DIFFERENT FROM OTHER COURSES ON PRODUCT ROADMAPPING:1. The course takes a pragmatic approach to product roadmap creation, not a philosophical, theoretical, or dogmatic one. It's based on battle-tested real-world techniques from 25+ years of building, launching, and scaling products across a broad variety of industries, companies, and markets. 2. The course includes tons of real-world examples and roadmaps of actual products. 3. Live case study where we will work on a real product and create a product roadmap together. 4. Hands-on exercises so you can immediately apply the lessons to your own product. WHO THIS COURSE IS PERFECT FOR:Product Managers managing commercial technology products who need to create a product roadmap or refresh an existing one, and don't have a lot of time to do it. It's especially ideal for PMs who: * Are faced with a large backlog.* Are struggling to align stakeholders.* Crave to evolve past a date-specific output-based to-do list to a strategic outcome-driven product roadmap.* Desire to get beyond the formulaic scoring methodologies and prioritize based on value and impact.* Need to visualize roadmaps to inspire different audiences.* Want to be able to showcase their value and earn credibility and respect.* Are not sure where to start. It's especially for those PMs who have a bias for action over perfection. WHO SHOULD NOT TAKE THIS COURSE:* "Tire kickers". (You have to be prepared to show up and apply the lessons to your context.)* Anyone looking for a "quick fix". (It doesn't exist. You have to be prepared to do the work.)* Anyone looking for someone else to design their roadmap for them. (No course can promise that. That's a consulting gig.)* Anyone too focused on tools and tech (for example, someone who just wants me to tell them which tool is best, or how to create a roadmap in ProdPad or Jira).* Agile, Scrum, or SAFe zealots. (If that answer works for you, great- godspeed. I'm not interested in a debate.)* Non-PMs. (This isn't a Product Management 101 course.)* Consultants or coaches looking to sell their services.

Master Delivering Value vs Managing a Backlog Swamp

Course syllabus

Three 2-hour sessions of live instructions and class participation in week 1.

Week 1: Monday, Wednesday, Friday

Three 2-hour sessions of live instructions and class participation in week 2.

Week 2: Monday, Wednesday, Friday

Exercises after each lesson that may be completed in class or after class. Time commitment depends on your commitment to completing the exercise!

Post-Lesson Exercises

Course schedule

Product Managers in individual contributor roles managing commercial technology products or digital initiatives.

Those in Product Owner and Technical Product Manager roles looking to become true strategic product managers.

Senior PMs, Product Leads, and Group PMs looking to fortify their roadmapping skills.

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