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Product Strategy Course

Build a compelling product strategy to align stakeholders and deliver maximum impact

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Skill level
PM, Snr PM, Group PM
Time
19 hours
Content
9 modules
Practice
8 take-home exercises
Certificate
On completion
Prerequisites
None

What you'll learn

  • Plan your time and efforts to create a working strategy in any timeframe
  • Establish who your users are, what they want and how you can help
  • Understand where you can grow and maintain your competitive advantage
  • Create an inspiring vision of what your product will look like in future
  • Work out where to focus to deliver outsized results
  • Link your work back to company objectives and commercial targets
  • Make a habit of communicating progress to build credibility

Who is this for

PM, Snr PM, Group PM

Product managers and product leaders at companies of all sizes.

Post-PMF companies

People at companies that have found product market fit.

Course content

9 modules156 topic pages~19.1 hours total

Welcome

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17 minutes

Everything you need to know and do to set yourself up for success, and get the most out of this product strategy course.

Article · 3 min What to expect
Article · 3 min How it works
Activity · 3 min Introduce yourself
Article · 3 min Making the most of it
Activity · 5 min Getting ready
Week 1:

Create a timeline to develop your strategy

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3.3 hours

This week you'll learn what a product strategy is, and create a plan to develop your own product strategy over the next seven weeks.

Article · 3 min How to create a great product strategy
Article · 3 min The strategy stack
Article · 6 min How to develop a strategy
Article · 4 min Objective
Article · 5 min Users & needs
Article · 3 min Powers: your competitive moat
Video · 8 min Vision
Article · 3 min Pillars
Article · 3 min Business impact
Article · 2 min Roadmap
Article · 2 min Recap
Article · 3 min Developing your strategy
Article · 5 min Creating a snap strategy
Activity · 60 min Exercise: write your own snap strategy
Article · 3 min Creating a strategy development plan
Article · 2 min Benefits of a strategy development plan
Article · 3 min Stages to creating a strategy development plan
Article · 4 min Defining your timeline
Article · 4 min Planning stakeholder meetings
Article · 4 min Planning analysis and research
Article · 4 min Defining milestones to consolidate your strategy
Article · 3 min Recap
Activity · 60 min Exercise: write your own strategy development plan
Week 2:

Understanding your users and their needs

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3 hours

This week you'll learn how to get a better understanding of your users by mapping out their experience, and mapping their thoughts and feelings to the touch points they have with your product.

Article · 3 min Continuous Discovery Habits
Article · 2 min What is user research?
Article · 5 min Project based research vs. continuous discovery
Article · 5 min Knowing what to research
Article · 1 min Speaking to users as a habit
Article · 4 min Recruit
Article · 4 min Screening
Article · 3 min Scheduling
Article · 5 min Interviewing
Article · 5 min Analyzing
Article · 2 min Recap
Article · 3 min Customer journey mapping
Article · 2 min Why build a customer journey map
Article · 2 min What is a customer journey map?
Article · 2 min Guiding principles
Article · 2 min Variations
Article · 5 min How to build a customer journey map
Article · 4 min Define your customer persona
Article · 3 min Select the customer goal
Article · 4 min Define the journey steps
Article · 5 min Add customer touch points
Article · 4 min Add customer thoughts and feelings
Article · 4 min Further enrich the map
Article · 4 min Identify where to act
Article · 3 min Getting the most out of your customer journey map
Article · 1 min Recap
Article · 60 min Exercise: Create your own customer journey map
Activity · 30 min Strategy Deck
Week 3:

Establishing your competitive moat

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2.4 hours

This week you'll learn how to develop and strengthen your competitive moat, and why this will allow you to maintain high margins.

Article · 4 min 7 Powers: establishing your competitive moat
Article · 2 min Benefits of defining your competitive advantage
Article · 5 min The 7 powers
Article · 5 min Network effects
Article · 4 min Scale economies
Article · 4 min Switching costs
Article · 5 min Counter positioning
Article · 4 min Cornered resource
Article · 4 min Brand
Article · 4 min Process Power
Article · 5 min Creating a power map
Article · 5 min Developing your powers over time
Article · 3 min Recap
Activity · 60 min Exercise: Create your own power map
Activity · 30 min Strategy Deck
Activity · 1 min Office Hours
Week 4:

Developing a vision to inspire everyone

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2.8 hours

This week you'll learn how to create a compelling vision that aligns those around you and inspires them to produce great work.

Article · 2 min How to set a compelling product vision
Article · 3 min Why a product vision is important
Video · 8 min What is a product vision
Article · 7 min Alternative vision formats
Article · 3 min Scope of product visions
Article · 5 min Guidelines
Article · 4 min How to develop a product vision
Article · 5 min Understand your customer
Article · 3 min Define your value proposition
Article · 3 min Clarify constraints
Article · 4 min Getting buy-in for a product vision workshop
Article · 6 min Running a product vision workshop
Article · 5 min Create the narrative
Video · 9 min Create the visuals
Article · 5 min Share it widely
Article · 3 min Recap
Activity · 60 min Exercise: Develop your own vision
Activity · 31 min Strategy Deck
Week 5:

Establishing the pillars of your strategy

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2.4 hours

This week you'll learn different ways to put your strategy into a coherent structure, and how to avoid common pitfalls that reduce your strategy's effectiveness.

Article · 4 min Establishing the pillars of your strategy
Article · 2 min Why pyramid structures are so powerful
Article · 3 min Why pillars are the core of your pyramid
Article · 4 min Popular alternatives
Article · 3 min Pyramid Principle
Article · 3 min Opportunity Solution Tree
Article · 3 min Lean Value Tree
Article · 3 min OGSM
Article · 2 min OKRs
Article · 2 min How do you develop your pillars?
Article · 3 min Top-down
Article · 2 min Bottom-up
Article · 1 min Iterate between the two
Article · 3 min Making it practical
Article · 2 min Common pitfalls
Article · 2 min No objective
Article · 2 min Multiple objectives
Article · 2 min Lack of options
Article · 2 min Too many actions
Article · 2 min Actions not linked to objectives
Article · 3 min Mixing layers (false equivalence)
Article · 3 min Recap
Activity · 60 min Exercise: develop your own strategic pillars
Activity · 30 min Strategy Deck
Week 6:

Linking the strategy to business impact

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2.5 hours

This week you'll learn how to estimate the impact that your strategic pillars or individual features will have. This will include practical tips on creating a clean, simple model that makes your thinking clear to others.

Article · 2 min Building an impact model for your product roadmap
Article · 3 min What is an impact model?
Article · 3 min Why model impact?
Article · 3 min Managing stakeholder expectations
Article · 4 min Levels of modeling impact
Article · 3 min How to create an impact model
Article · 4 min Define your measure of impact
Article · 4 min Establish the impact drivers
Article · 4 min Define your time period
Article · 3 min Get baseline data
Article · 3 min Estimating uplift
Article · 3 min Sense checking the output
Article · 3 min Follow up post-launch
Article · 3 min Best practice for modeling
Article · 3 min Auditability
Article · 3 min Marking inputs vs. calculated cells
Article · 3 min Formatting
Article · 1 min Hidden data
Article · 3 min Recap
Activity · 60 min Exercise: create your own impact model
Activity · 30 min Strategy Deck
Week 7:

Sharing your strategy

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2.4 hours

In your last week, you'll learn how to visualise and communicate your strategy to stakeholders by selecting the right format of roadmap to meet their needs.

Article · 3 min How to create a roadmap
Article · 5 min What are product roadmaps for?
Article · 3 min Good Roadmap / Bad Roadmap
Article · 3 min Principles for product roadmaps and prioritization
Article · 4 min Strategy is a balance of themes, not a sequence of features
Article · 3 min Recognise if you’re in a red phase or a blue phase
Article · 3 min Choose between predictability of outputs and outcomes
Article · 2 min Prioritize the big bets first
Article · 2 min Frameworks only take you so far
Article · 1 min Product Roadmap Templates
Article · 4 min Strategic Product Roadmap
Article · 4 min Now / Next / Later Product Roadmap
Article · 4 min Dashboard Product Roadmap
Article · 4 min OKR Product Roadmap
Article · 4 min Gantt Roadmap
Article · 3 min Recap
Activity · 60 min Exercise: create your own roadmap
Activity · 30 min Strategy Deck
Wrap up

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7 minutes

Now that you've completed the Product Strategy course, we'll recap the artefacts that you've created, and discuss what to do next.

Article · 3 min Artefacts
Article · 3 min Next Steps
Activity · 1 min Office Hours

About the Product Strategy Course

This 7-week online course helps senior product managers and product leaders build a robust, actionable product strategy that aligns stakeholders, defines users and competitive advantage, and translates vision into business impact. You’ll learn how to research users, map journeys, define strategic pillars, model impact, and ultimately create a roadmap tied to commercial goals.

With practical exercises and templates, this product strategy course is ideal for leaders in PM, GPM, or VP roles who want to deliver high-impact products with clarity and structure.

Meet your instructor

Ed Biden

Ed Biden

Co-founder, Hustle Badger · ex-Depop, Rocket Internet, FutureLearn

Ed has spent 15 years building and leading product teams at high-growth companies. He’s a former CPO and has led product organisations at companies like Depop, FutureLearn, Rocket Internet, FYLD and JobandTalent.

Ed co-founded Hustle Badger in 2022 and has since taught hundreds of product managers on AI skills and how to succeed as a product manager.

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