Master the core concepts, frameworks, and skills every product manager needs to succeed
Product Management Foundations is ideal for early career product managers, mid-career professionals transitioning into product roles, and cross functional colleagues who need to understand how product works.
This class equips learners with a clear understanding of the essential concepts, vocabulary, and frameworks needed to create value in the product role. Through practical exercises, guidance, and real examples from the expert leader’s product career, product managers will learn to step out in front by aligning teams around shared goals, identifying critical assumptions to test, and creating actionable roadmaps that accelerate value delivery. At Mind the Product, we believe that it is more crucial than ever to orient product managers to a hypothesis-driven, data-informed approach that emphasises active critical thinking and analysis.
Key questions addressed
This class helps teams answer the following questions in their own product and organisational context:
- What is the role of the product manager?
- What are the fundamentals that product managers need to master in order to create value for their organizations and customers?
- What skills do product managers need in order to facilitate the right discussions that can influence outcomes and align teams without direct authority?
- How can AI tools multiply a product manager's capacity, accelerating research, analysis, and decision-making?
CLASS CURRICULUM
What we cover
Product Development Lifecycle
Goals and alignment
Hypothesis & Experimentation
Roadmap Mindset
Characteristics of high-performing Product Teams
From the course creator
“Strong product fundamentals have never been more critical. New and incoming product managers need to know how to validate the right problems, align cross-functional teams, and deliver value strategically. These core skills separate product managers who drive real impact from those who simply ship features. With AI accelerating development cycles, the stakes are even higher; without solid fundamentals, you'll just push bad products to market faster. This course equips product managers with the essential practices and leadership skills to create meaningful value for customers and their organizations”
Rosemary King
VP of Operations Creator Method, Consultant, Coach, Board Member of Toronto Product Management Association
What to expect from our training format
With our product management training, you’ll experience our industry-leading curriculum, coaching from expert trainers, and learn live with product peers — all in a fully interactive format.
Each live class combines lectures, group discussions, Q&As, and activities designed for hands-on learning and real-time application.
Our public cohorts currently run remotely across two half-day sessions. Team Training classes can be delivered remotely or in person, with flexible timing and cadence to suit your team. Remote sessions are hosted via Zoom and supported by digital collaboration tools.
Expected outcomes
You will leave this class equipped to:
- Understand the product manager role and how it contributes to customer and business outcomes.
- Apply core product management concepts, frameworks, and vocabulary with confidence.
- Align teams and stakeholders around shared goals, priorities, and hypotheses.
- Use experimentation and evidence to inform decisions and manage risk.
- Plan and communicate roadmaps that support learning and value delivery.
- Leverage AI tools thoughtfully to support analysis, synthesis, and execution.
- Build the foundations for effective collaboration and high-performing product teams.
Ready to bring this into your product practice?
"The Product Management Foundations workshop provided our team with a deeper understanding of what it means to be a product manager—not just in relation to business skills but people skills too. Hearing the trainer’s own experiences cemented what we were learning and helped us put it into practice."
AIB Personal Banking
"The Foundations workshop was structured brilliantly for beginner product managers who have never functioned in that role before. The trainer was absolutely brilliant in the way they kept all participants engaged over the two days of discussion. The workshop had the right amount of theory, discussions, and exercises which made it easy to stay engaged throughout. Great course! Great delivery!"
Newscorp
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