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University of Maryland, College Park

Lean Product Portfolios: Beyond Value Stream Mapping

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Lean Product Portfolios: Beyond Value Stream Mapping is about building and managing products collectively as a portfolio to maximize value creation. It explores these key concepts: ● Customer centricity and Value Stream Mapping across related products ● Product Design using Lean Principles for Product Lines and Product Suites ● Building Scalable Enterprise Architecture ● The use of User Research & Human-Centered Design ● Day-to-day Product Management: Individual Product Plans & Integrated Portfolio Roadmap ● Creating and managing a complex Product Portfolio using Lean principles ● Actionable strategies for Product Lifecycle Management. Examples include: New Product Strategy, Market Acquisition, Expansion, Realignment, Product-Market Fit, Go-to-market, post-launch expansion, and Product and feature retirement (overlaps, non-opportunities, lifecycle decision) Potential case studies for this course could include the challenges of evolving legacy product lines, such as Modernization Acceleration in Insurance and Banking industry, SSN management at Social Security Administration, health records at CMS; as well as new scaled product offerings at major tech companies like PayPal.

Syllabus

  • Week 1
  • Week 2
  • Week 3
  • Week 4
  • Final Exam

Taught by

Tushar Rathod

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3.3 rating, based on 18 Class Central reviews

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  • Anonymous
    The quizes have grading errors that make it impossible to finish the course. I would recommend you do NOT pay for this course.

    There's even a ridiculously spammy question that ask you to check on this website, classcentral, for the "tags" for which the course is listed under... and you can clearly see that the options in the question and the tags listed on this website do not correspond at all. Such an careless and useless approach by the creator of this course.
  • Anonymous
    The course provides a structured overview of product portfolio management, scaling strategies and capability models. The conceptual frameworks are relevant and valuable particularly for understanding enterprise-level product organizations. However…
  • Anonymous
    This comprehensive course provides an excellent deep dive into strategic product portfolio management, covering essential frameworks from core competencies and enterprise capabilities to value stream mapping and product operations. The material expe…
  • Anonymous
    As learner with basic understanding of product management principles, I found this course to be highly valuable and well rounded in concepts, quizzes etc. I've gained a comprehensive knowledge on how to apply the frameworks and I can confidently say that I'll be reviewing my notes for a long time!
  • Anonymous
    I always hesitated to take course at Coursera. I thought I can never gain memorable knowledge by doing courses without live instructed led training. But frequent knowledge checks, exams, AI help to learn after the course gave me confidence that I would otherwise miss knowing the content. Now I can relate the content learn here with my professional environment. Unlike Udemy, Here I learned from university professor. Professor Vinod have calm demeanor, and content is very organized. Best of all getting certificate from UMD is Thanks for the course.
  • Anonymous
    The model 1 quiz impossible to pass and they are needed to get the certificate. As someone who has worked in the industry for 20+ years I would've expected to pass it after multiple tries but looks like there's a bug. Please fix it and stop wasting people's time.
  • Anonymous
    Das fehlende Feedback uns ungewöhnliche Punktevergabe bei den Quizfragen war nicht optimal. Ein wenig mehr Fokus hätte ich mir auch gewünscht.
  • Anonymous
    It gives a good overview and has some interesting case studies that help to increase the understanding.
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  • Anonymous
    rather good, but more practical cases in detail would be appreciated.........................................................................................................
  • Anonymous
    Course tests and final exam don't align to the practice making it difficult to pass and frustrating. The assignments should align more to the materials.
  • Anonymous
    The content is good. Some of the knowledge checks/quizzes are in the wrong sections, this should be corrected. I wish feedback was enabled on the weekly graded quizzes so they could be used for final exam study materials.
  • Anonymous
    Concepts with Case studies give you deeper insights into learning. Thanks for structured course. Would help to have the assignments at the end instead of every module as it will disturb the learning flow.
  • Anonymous
    I really enjoyed this course. This was a great introduction to a lot of broad models and approaches for different product management goals.

    The organization of the class modules could use some work to describe the purpose of each section--i.e. what is the overall purpose/goal each week and how do they all tie together.
  • Anonymous
    The course covers the concepts at a very high level . There need to be either follow up courses to understand the concepts better . More practical examples can be provided to help adoption in real working environments. Additionally the list in Found in is not matching to the answers listed in Class Central Feedback quiz and is blocking completion of the course
  • Anonymous
    In general, the course is good enough. However, lots of issues make it not that practical: a) No option to learn from mistakes (the feedback tab is blocked), b) lot of questions are provided just "because of questions".. quite illogical with 0 impact on the learning curve, c) very theoretical and lots of "water" inside the course - missing more tangible practice and robust data. However, there were also some interesting frameworks introduced.. thank you.
  • Anonymous
    I really enjoyed the class. I learned quite a bit, especially around the Product Operations section. I would add a few more Lean concepts though.
  • Anonymous
    Would be nice to review answers for the quiz & exams to learn from past mistakes. Answers are blocked out for some reason, so how does this promote learning?
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