Product Management: Customer Development
1h 2mBeginner2018-06-21
Authors

Jay Clouse
Writer and Entrepreneur from Columbus, Ohio
Course details
Great products are built from a strong understanding of customer needs. As a product manager, you're tasked with identifying those customer needs so that you're able to direct the creation of products that make your customers' lives a bit easier.
In this course, discover how to leverage the customer development process to validate your assumptions and create products customers will truly love—without spending all your precious time or money. Learn how to craft your own problem hypothesis, perform user research, create surveys and analyze the results, and conduct effective user interviews.
Learning objectives
Four stages of customer development
Creating a problem hypothesis
Performing user research
Defining your target market
Creating effective surveys
Conducting effective user interviews
Analyzing interview results
In this course, discover how to leverage the customer development process to validate your assumptions and create products customers will truly love—without spending all your precious time or money. Learn how to craft your own problem hypothesis, perform user research, create surveys and analyze the results, and conduct effective user interviews.
Learning objectives
Four stages of customer development
Creating a problem hypothesis
Performing user research
Defining your target market
Creating effective surveys
Conducting effective user interviews
Analyzing interview results
Skills covered
Product ManagementFoundationsBusiness Analysis and Strategy
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
1. Customer Development
- 02 - Introduction to customer development
- 03 - Four stages of customer development
2. Identifying a Problem
- 04 - Where product ideas come from
- 05 - Overview of customer discovery
- 06 - What is a problem hypothesis
- 07 - Create your own problem hypothesis
3. User Research
- 08 - Performing user research
- 09 - Define your target market
- 10 - Secondary research techniques
- 11 - Primary research techniques
- 12 - How to create a screener
4. User Surveys
- 13 - What makes a good survey
- 14 - How to create a survey
- 15 - How to analyze survey results
5. User Interviews
- 16 - What makes a good interview
- 17 - How to create an interview template
- 18 - How to conduct a user interview
- 19 - How to analyze interview results
Conclusion
- 20 - When to confirm or pivot
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