6 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Become a better product manager with a guaranteed impact on your business – in only 6 weeks.
6 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Become a better product manager with a guaranteed impact on your business – in only 6 weeks.
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Course overview
Product people are naturally curious — but many work in this role without being equipped with the essential skills. Instead of driving business growth and building products people love, they end up feeling stuck and exhausted.
We created this course to change that — not by just teaching theory, but by helping you apply learnings in your real-world context.
Whether you’re a PM with a few years of experience, transitioning into Product from a related role, or stepping up as the lead of a product team, this course is for you.
Why This Course is Different
There are endless great resources out there to learn Product, but understanding the ideas fully and applying the techniques in your individual setup and environment is a very different game.
We designed this course drawing from over 25 years of experience across various product roles, companies, and industries. We bridge the theory into practice without getting lost in framework details. We’re not from big tech — but we understand what it’s like when things get tough. We know there’s no one-size-fits-all solution for effective product work.
You’ll learn directly from us and other product professionals who face the same challenges you do. This isn’t about hypothetical scenarios; it’s about learning and training the exact skills you need to succeed in your role.
With small cohorts, we ensure you get personalized attention and meaningful engagement with others, helping you grow both your skills and your network.
How You Will Learn
This six-week program is packed with actionable knowledge. We use a flipped classroom approach: you get the theory as compact video content, and our sessions are dedicated to discussing, exploring, and training these skills within the group — as no other course does.
What We’ll Cover
• Understand the big picture of product management and how discovery, strategy, and delivery fit together.
• Identify knowledge gaps to learn more about your business.
• Practice talking to users to uncover insights that typically stay hidden.
• Craft a basic business case and tell a compelling story to get the buy-in you need.
• Dive into the tech details to build confidently and minimize gaps in your specs.
• Communicate and align effectively with stakeholders, and learn to resolve conflicts.
• Create a clear strategy and stay focused using the right tools.
Check out the full curriculum for everything we’ll cover together.
Why This Works
We provide a safe space for you to learn, practice, and take action. That’s why we run this course in small cohorts—to give you the environment you need to succeed.
Join us and a community of forward-thinking product managers, and let’s set a new standard for your career.
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Product people with a few years of experience who want to level up their skills and get the basics right.
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Product adjacent roles (e.g. UX design, QA, Engineering, ...) that want to move into product management.
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Young product leads with a different background who need to get a grasp of the foundations to better lead their teams.
Product Role and Responsibilities
Understand the roles and responsibilities of a product manager so you can find your areas of improvement
Building Domain Expertise
Learn to build up the knowledge you need to make profound decisions and convince stakeholders
Master the Art of User Research
Master the art of user research by actively training the skills and learn ways to get the insights you need
Solve Problems that Matter
Learn how to root-cause insights and ideate the right features that drive user and business impact.
Opportunity Assessment
Learn how to assess opportunities and prioritize them so you can ensure to build features with impact
Experimentation & Hypotheses Testing
Explore different techniques to experiment and validate hypotheses and fill knowledge gaps
Strategy, Roadmaps & Goals
Learn about the characteristics of a vision, mission, roadmaps, goals, and KPIs and how to use them to make decisions and stay focussed
Business Case modeling
Craft a business case and understand the financial aspects of the features you build
Information Flows
Learn to tailor information-flows so you and your teams are well-informed and build trust with your peers
Conflict Resolution
Master the art of communication to resolve conflicts
Storytelling
Learn how to craft a story to convince people and get the buy-in you need
Collaboration & Team Alignment
Learn to align with stakeholders, your team, and key people in your work so you can work collaboratively with ease
Building the Product
Practice ways to create good products from customer-facing to uncover technical details that your development team needs to perform. Understand the principles needed to build high-quality products while still shipping fast
Bonus: 1h Coaching Session
We offer a 1h coaching session after the course to discuss very individual questions you might have
...and many more
knowledge, tips, and tricks on how to run Product better and more efficiently.
20 interactive live sessions
Lifetime access to course materials
In-depth lessons
Direct access to instructor
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.
The Essentials of Product Management
Feb
17
Introduction: Welcome Session
Feb
18
Session 1: Domain Expertise Build-Up
Feb
20
Session 2: Interview Fundamentals
Feb
21
Session 3: Interview Training
Feb
25
Session 4: Coding Interviews, Idea Management, Problem Assessment
Feb
27
Session 5: Hypotheses, Prioritizations, Solution Design
Feb
28
Session 6: Business Metrics, Business Modelling
Mar
4
Session 7: Overcoming Distractions, Tools for Staying Focused
Mar
6
Session 8: Strategy, Goals, Roadmaps
Mar
7
Session 9: KPIs
Mar
11
Session 10: Non-Violent Communication, Conflict Resolution
Mar
13
Session 11: Communication Design
Mar
14
Session 12: Storytelling
Mar
18
Session 13: Stakeholder Collaboration, Stakeholder Mapping
Mar
20
Session 14: Align, Discover and Build with Stakeholders
Mar
21
Session 15: Team Collaboration, Roles & Responsibilities, Team Structures
Mar
25
Session 16: User Journey Mapping, Wireframing
Mar
27
Session 17: Work Breakdown, Writing Specs
Mar
28
Session 18: Traits for Building Fast, Traits for Building High Quality, Closing
Apr
15
Hannah Billenstein
Joshua B
Mary Wolf
Niklas Grosser
Meike Friedrichs
Taro Nguyen
15 years in 50+ companies
I’m a product leader with a strong bias for creation and enablement. I have 15+ years of experiences working with over 50+ companies across all industries, mainly start-ups and scale-ups. I spent valuable time at Project A Ventures as CPO, Rocket Internet as Product Manager and Co-Founder at Sonntagmorgen.
My mission is to level up the way we create products so they have more impact on the people using and the companies building it. I help companies with training product people, execute product jobs as interim lead, and share my product experience.
So, let’s make sure your product makes progress and the progress is learned.
Supported, coached, and taught 100+ founders to become better at Product
I am a seasoned product leader with over a decade of hands-on experience across various sectors. I specialize in working with startups and scale-ups, often stepping into interim product leadership roles to drive product success. My approach is centered on coaching and empowering individuals and product teams to foster growth and development.
In the past years, I have expanded my reach to the educational sector, teaching product management at institutions like CODE University of Applied Sciences, Founders Foundations, and other accelerator programs. In addition to that, I coach product individuals and teams through challenging times.
I am driven by the thrill of solving complex problems and the satisfaction that comes from building environments of deep trust within teams. I strongly believe in the power of co-creation and enablement in a team setting as a way to achieve collective goals.
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Batch #4
€1,490
Dates
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4-6 hours per week
Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays
9:00am - 10:30am CET
We'll meet three times a week from 9:00am to 10:30am CET (GMT+1). This will be our
Knowledge input
Previous to live sessions
We follow a "flipped classroom" model that provides you with short, focused videos and theory and concepts to maximize the use of time in our live sessions
Weekly practice sessions
1-2 hours (on demand)
We'll facilitate additional practice sessions to go deep on certain topics (e.g. interview training, business case building, communication training)
FREE WEBINAR: Do's and Don'ts of User Research
Building domain expertise is one of the core activities in modern, discovery-focused product management. However, many fail to gain the best insights from users. In this lightning lesson, we’ll focus on the most essential Do’s and Don’ts of user research and provide actionable tactics to improve your research process.
Get the recording for free
Active hands-on learning
This course builds on a "flipped classroom"-model. We'll provide you with 15-20-minute bite-sized knowledge videos to work through by yourself. During our 3 weekly live sessions, we'll focus on discussions, hands-on exercises, and best practices.
Safe space
We aim to create a safe space to openly address emotional topics.
Through a combination of town hall and breakout sessions, you'll spend a significant amount of time with your cohort to build relationships and trust. This enables valuable coaching and feedback.
Learn from other product peers and expand your network
Through the course and numerous ways of connection, you'll build a strong and trusted network with peers in similar career stages facing similar challenges. We foster communication and exchange beyond the cohort through an ongoing community channel.
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Batch #4
€1,490
Dates
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