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MicroMasters® Program in
Digital Product Management
BUx

What you will learn

  • The new Digital Transformation Leadership MicroMasters program can be found here: https://www.edx.org/micromasters/bux-digital-transformation-leadership
  • Understand the principles and processes for developing product roadmaps
  • Tools and methods for generating and validating user needs, ideas, co-creation and mapping the findings into product and market requirements and positioning documents
  • Techniques for oversight of agile development, rapid prototyping, experimentation and risk management with object oriented development, data and analytics based tools sets
  • Techniques for planning, oversight and launch of products and software, including tracking and system level optimization of social media metrics
  • Life cycle management of products and services including versioning and pricing
  • Techniques for communicating and championing the product benefits to internal (C-Level Managers and sales teams) and external audiences (key customers)
  • Understand the variations in the product management practices across different organizations and emergent digital markets
  • Alternative ways to drive digital business innovation in your company
Expert instruction
5 graduate-level courses
3 months
4 - 6 hours per week
$1,995
USD
For the full program experience

Courses in this program

  1. BUx's Digital Product Management MicroMasters® Program

Meet your instructors
from Boston University (BUx)

Paul R. Carlile
Associate Professor of Management and Information Systems
Boston University
Ben Lubin
Assistant Professor in the Information Systems department
Boston University
Barbara Bickart
Senior Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Marketing
Boston University

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Program endorsements

At Fidelity Investments, Digital Innovation is a core proficiency needed to continue to exceed our customers’ expectations. Our agile teams use a rapid iteration, hypothesis-based and customer informed process to constantly innovate and we are excited that Boston University is launching Digital Innovation MicroMasters programs, focused on leadership and product management themes, to help develop these types of skills.

Richard Blunk , EVP, Digital Channels, Fidelity Investments

Boston Globe Media

Digital transformation has fundamentally changed how media organizations operate. The Boston Globe recognizes the need to be forward-thinking and prepared to identify and capitalize on new opportunities and navigate the challenges of our industry. At the core of what we do is the powerful journalism across each of our brands – The Boston Globe, STAT and Boston.com. In order to support the incredible work coming out of our newsrooms, there is an increasing reliance on leveraging technology, business strategy, product innovation and leadership in our organization. The MicroMasters® program delivers the knowledge and skillsets that are must-haves for the Globe as we continue to transform the business, develop our talent and recruit new candidates.

Claudia Henderson , Chief Human Resources Officer, Boston Globe Media

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