Certified Product Manager (CPM)

Product management is a key discipline for the overall success of a product or service in the marketplace. It helps organizations deliver market-driven value and strengthen brand or profit.

The key to business success is choosing the right product that is attractive and brings value to customers. Product management allows you to set up a functional process for identifying such a product, planning its development and delivery, continuous customer feedback, deployment of the finished product and its management. It borrows the most useful of both waterfall and agile approaches and is thus an integral part of all business projects.

The course is suitable for anyone interested in product management and its use beyond project management.

Participants will understand the basic principles of product management, become familiar with the product lifecycle, key processes, understand and be able to properly implement the role of a product manager in an organization.

  • Product Manager

  • Product owner

  • Business manager

  • Business analyst

  • Portfolio manager

  • Program Manager

  • Project Manager

  • Team Manager

What will you learn

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  • How to create product plans and roadmaps
  • How to combine product and marketing activities for success in the marketplace
  • What is persona and how to use it to analyse and identify customer needs
  • Successfully engage stakeholders in the product lifecycle through well-constructed communication

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Timeline

1st Day

09:00 – 10:30 Introduction to product management
  • Definition of product management
  • Product management in the structure of an organization: business, projects, marketing
  • The customer and its importance in product management
  • Roles in product management
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15 Business Analysis and Strategic Management
  • Market Analysis
  • Product Portfolio Analysis
  • Strategic Change Management
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45 Delivering value
  • Innovation
  • User experience
Project management
  • Waterfall and Phase-Gate projects
  • Agile projects
14:45 – 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 – 16:30 Programmes and portfoliosP3M applications in product management

2nd Day

09:00 – 10:30 Product life cycle
  • Stages and phases
  • Product success factors
  • Product cycle
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 12:15 Conceptual phase
  • Market analysis
  • Product portfolio analysis
  • External and internal environment and its influence
  • Strategic/business opportunities
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45 Idea ManagementCreating value
  • Minimum Viable Product
  • Prototyping
14:45 – 15:00 Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30 Determination of customer needs
  • Working with personas
  • Problem scenarios and storyboards
  • Competitor analysis

3rd Day

09:00 – 10:30 Product and Marketing Strategy
  • Product Vision and Strategy
  • Identification of product value
  • Product objectives
  • Business Case and Project Charter
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15 Planning
  • Product roadmap - the basis of the project plan
  • Creating a product management plan and project plan
  • Marketing plan
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45 Development
  • Specification of product requirements
  • Verification of product quality
  • Configuration management
  • Product release
  • Market validation and product launch planning
  • Project controls
14:45 – 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 – 16:30 Qualification and product launch
  • Market testing
  • Transition and business implementation
  • Readiness assessment and go-to-market decisions
  • Product life stages - growth, maturity, decline
Market exit
  • End-of-Life Plan
  • Block length 90 min.
  • Teaching hours 24
  • Refreshments Yes
  • Exam Yes

In practical training you will understand the role of the product manager in analysing the market and customer needs. You will create a product vision and define product goals. Through a series of scenarios, you will delve deeper into each phase of the product lifecycle: from concept, planning, development to launch, product management and eventual recall.

Prestigious certification included

Certified Product Manager (CPM)

Graduates of the course will receive a Certificate Certified Product Manager (CPM).

As part of the certification process, they must demonstrate knowledge of product management principles and methods, including the entire product life cycle – from idea and concept through planning, qualification, and launch to withdrawal. The exam tests the candidate's ability to manage a product portfolio, define customer value, create a business case, and use tools for development management and marketing strategy.

The exam topics are:

  • Product life cycle (concept, planning, qualification, delivery, commercialization, growth, maturity, and decline)

  • Product portfolio and its optimization

  • Business case, product vision, and roadmap

  • Marketing strategies, brand, and value proposition

  • Business analysis and its use in product management

  • Innovation management, MVP, and disruptive innovation

  • Voice of Customer, UX principles, and market validation

  • Roles, competencies, and responsibilities of a product manager

Certification instructions

Exam format

Exam format

  • Duration: 90 minutes

  • Number of questions: 50 (multiple choice, always one correct answer)

  • Minimum pass mark: 60%

  • Language: Czech

  • Type of questions: multiple choice (1 correct answer)

  • Other conditions: “closed book” – no materials may be used

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