Product School

I wanted to learn more about product management in order help me transition into the field. Went to many of their events and decided to enroll into the course. Loved the experience b/c our instructors were all real practitioners and we went through the entire product management cycle learning a ton along the way. Highly recommend this school if interested in product management.

Id like to start off by saying "be ready to jot down notes and retain information fast" It is a speedy type of curriculum but the teacher was great and very patient. You will learn so much from this course, and yes it is a fun enviorment. If you are taking the one in Downtown L.A most likely youll have to pay $5 for parking but thats nothing compared to the knowledge you will gain for your future.

I recently completed the Orange County offering of the Product Management course and I'd definitely recommend it. I'm a PM who is new to the role and I wanted to learn best practices and methodology. The order of classes essentially walks students through the product lifecycle from an idea to implementation. While this won't necessarily map to a current PM's role on a one-to-one basis, it will provide PMs with an idea of steps they should be taken in order to better define, implement and release products and features.

Our instructor, Derek Tumulo was very knowledgeable and I found his experience incredibly helpful. He was able to provide concrete examples of his experience at a few marquee companies he's worked at did things. Honestly, if you were to take this course, I'd suggest tak...

I recently enrolled in Product School's product management 8-week training course in New York and have been really happy with both the quality of the content taught and my instructor, Joel Palathinkal. I got lucky that I had an instructor who not only had a wealth of experience and knowledge but also was always accessible and eager to help.

The course was a great combination of information/lecture and hands-on practice/role play and projects. Overall, I'd definitely recommend this course to anyone considering moving into the product management role.

I am glad I took this product management course. It has taught me the fundamentals, frameworks and design thinking in depth. The course was structured in a way that gave me the opportunity to have a hands-on experience by collaborating and brainstorming with my classmates.

Shout out to Gaurav, our instructor who taught this course splendidly. Along with sharing his personal experiences, he was always ready to dive deeper into our questions. His concise advice on product modeling helped me instill a sharper perspective in me. I vividly remember the first day, where he took us as distinct products and gradually devised the course around us. I highly recommend attending his class.

Thanks to Product School, I got to meet brilliant minds hailing from different sectors. I have a powerf...

I took the Product School product management course in the spring of 2018 in NYC. I would definitely recommend this class to anyone new to a PM role, or trying to make the transition into a PM role.

I’m a failed startup founder now moving into a PM job. The product management experience I had building and launching my own product gave me insight into product strategy, but I was working mostly through intuition and on the fly. This class was a great place to get a more formal education on product management. It provided frameworks and a methodical approach to product. It can be very hard to break into product management and this class is a great resource on top of everything else one can do to prepare and build confidence for a PM job.

I chose my Product School course specificall...

Throughout my experience, I have gone through product lifecycle in different types of a product without knowing that I'm going through such a thing. Having Product School clearing it up with case study experience from instructors and guest speakers. The work that product school is giving to student help clears up my confusion with product related work and the engaging curricular is fun with classmates of a different work background.

I hope Product School is able to achieve their goal further to bring as many product managers into the tech world where is demanding to bring the whole product together. The job work is still new and soon it will be a full career path.

Now I know where I can improve my craft to work as a full fletch Product Manager. Thank you Product School.

I spent the last 8+ weeks focusing on my software and product management skills at Product School. Logan Hutchinson was my instructor that was excellent. He taught the details on how to become a great PM. But, he also took you on daily issues he faces and how he addressed them. The role playing was very beneficial. I also gained great feedback on my interview skills and how to better prepare for my interviews. Logan was very informative on the product process, how to deal with the many aspects of launches and the class is focused on being a great PM. After the class was finished I am well prepared to launch software products and have some interviews with Fortune 100 firms. Great job Logan and Product School.

I highly recommend the 8-week Product Management program for anyone looking to pursue a career in Product Management.

It was a comprehensive course that enhanced my product thinking despite being in the digital product development and management space. I attended this program for 2 reasons:

1. Intellectually Curiosity: I have an insatiable thirst for knowledge and always looking for ways to develop more innovative customer-centric products and solutions.
2. Networking: I recently started a non-profit organization for women in product management with the aim of creating a community of digital leaders in Toronto. Attending this program allowed me to learn from industry veterans, who shared best practices and nuggets of wisdom selflessly and willingly.

Best of all, the supportiv...

I took the Product Management course (weekend schedule) in Seattle. They have their own textbook which sets the framework of the class content, but it is still highly dependent on the instructor. I enjoyed my class a lot for the below top 2 reasons:

1) My instructor Mikko Ollila is a veteran Product Manager with experience in multiple different companies (across industries and org sizes). He was able to demonstrate the topics by giving us plenty of real work examples that come from his professional experience. When we asked questions, he gave us different perspectives rather than "the correct answer". I benefited a lot from learning from him.

2) My cohort was great. We all come from different organizations and have different backgrounds. We asked questions and shared our own exp...

I took Product School Silicon Valley April-June 2018, our instructor Teesh is a very knowledgeable Product Manager with over a decade or experience. For anyone who is thinking about switching fields to product, I highly recommend Product School. For someone with little to no experience with product management specifically, I am now clear about what the role entails, who I will be working with, what I will be working on, on how to be successful in the role. There are many hands-on activities that put you in the shoes of a real-life PM and forces you to work with your peers and articulate your ideas, such as writing a PRD, user stories, Go-to-market Strategies... Teesh was also very experienced and helped guide us through these activities by helping us think the way a PM should. All ...

I just finished the Product Management course at Product School (NYC) with Dr. Joel Palathinkal and couldn’t be happier with my experience!

I chose Product School because the curriculum was everything I needed to achieve my goal of transitioning from my web analytics focused career to a product management. Next steps were finding the right professor, and I chose Joel because of his amazing reviews - they were spot on!

Joel’s teaching style has provided me with invaluable education to launch my own product as an entrepreneur or transition my career to product management.

My highlights:
• Joel always had a knowledgeable answer for diverse questions asked by the class
• Using real case studies and role playing to working through the product process with the class
• Mock interv...

Dr. Joel Palathinkal’s class was extremely valuable towards advancing my knowledge and understanding of product management in the software and technology space.

Dr. Joel regularly shares his years of real world experiences in product management, and makes the lifecycle of product management extremely relatable. Regardless of your background, I am currently in account management, this course provides the basic building blocks+Dr. Joel’s years of experience, and creates a valuable learning experience for anyone looking to get in product management or just looking for something new to learn.

I would highly recommend this course to anyone interested. Especially Dr. Joel’s class. Looking forward to taking my new skill sets and applying them towards my current role.

I recently completed 8 week Product School session in Silicon valley and highly recommend it for people who are looking at switching careers to product management.
Our instructor Pratiksha Rao is a really awesome instructor with great passion, wide knowledge and deep insights. She was friendly, helpful, fast in thinking, and keen on sharing.I would definitely recommend this course to someone who wants to learn about product management.

I took Product School's Product Management intensive in Santa Monica and could not have been more impressed with the caliber of curriculum, instruction, and resources. At the conclusion of the 8-week program, I walked away with a mastery of the core principles, frameworks, and tools needed to be an effective PM. The exercises, group work, and projects were invaluable.

Much of the credit goes to our instructor, Rich Headley, a talented and passionate instructor with deep insights into both the technical and intangible elements of being a good PM. Apart from being a dynamic, engaging classroom leader, Rich excels at the delivery of keen, perceptive feedback that enables true growth and learning.

I highly recommend Product School to aspiring PMs, or anyone looking to gain a deeper un...

The course was well worth the money and giving up 8 consecutive Saturdays. Our instructor Ken Furie brought a ton of real-life product management experience to the table, which I found even more valuable than the well-crafted course material. Ken gave us countless examples of common pitfalls when PMing and tips on how to build healthy, productive cross team communication. It was a good experience taking a product idea from inception through prototyping and wire framing; learning how to develop PRDs, craft product pitches, and form go-to-market strategies. Ken spent quite a bit of time explaining the importance of building well researched personas and user stories to help development teams stay laser focused on product outcomes. I had a very energetic and diverse set of classmates, ...

I attended the 8 week Software Product Management Certification Course which was held at Denver.

This is one of the best courses that I have ever taken in my professional life. The course content was very apt and to the point. The best part of the course was it was not all instructor lectures and slides alone. Every class had a hands on practice material to be done in class as a group or as an individual. Also the homework assignments were very insightful and helped me develop on the concepts that I learned in class. The Slack channel is really helpful. Also I liked the fact that the class was really small. Just around 10 students which helped each one of us get personal attention from the instructor.

Our instructor was Ken Furie, who is the Head of Product and Technical Strategy...

Course: 8 week long Software Product Management on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, from March to May 2018.

Location: Santa Monica, CA
Parking note: For those driving over there, there are several public lots available and your first 1.5 hours in the lot are free. Classes are 2.5 hours long though so expect to pay between $3– $5 per class depending on how early you arrive and how late you stick around after class.

Instructor: Rich Headley, currently a PM at Cornerstone OnDemand.
Rich is very knowledgable, engaging, and covered all the relevant course topics on the syllabus. He also took time to address additional questions and concepts during class. I especially liked the way he applied PM concepts to real-world anecdotes and connected them to what we were learning.

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After completing the 8-week Product Management course, I confidently recommend Rich Headley to be your next instructor at the Product School, Santa Monica. Prior to the course, I was under the impression that to be a Product Manager, hiring companies required candidates to have a high technical knowledge/background. As a Psych grad with a sales background, I had a lot of reservation in enrolling for this course as I thought I would struggle to understand concepts/hold my class back and not find many uses for the course.

From the first day of class and to the very end, Rich fostered a safe & interactive learning environment that simplified concepts while connecting them to real-life applications through in-class exercises. A typical class looks like this: after teaching us that class'...

Professor Joel Palath easily made my experience unforgettable and invaluable at Product School. His knowledge of the field, along with his ability as educator, pushed our class to learn much more than we could have on our own. I came to the class with experience as a product manger and was not too sure what to think of the course but left with immediate results. The material we covered helped me revamp the way I am approaching products at work and helped kickstart my own startup. Professor Palath presented solutions to real problems that PMs face on a day to day basis by not just reviewing material from a textbook/slides but by weaving the course material with his own real world experiences as PM. This made the course much more enjoyable and made the concepts much easier to grasp. The ...