Department of Industrial Engineering and Management

Introduction to Product Management 2023

Aalto University and leading product experts organize an open lecture-series "Introduction to Product Management" this fall. You are welcome to join the individual sessions, live at the campus or online!

Product management is one of the most crucial competencies for startups and scale-ups. Combining customer needs and realities of production during fast growth call for a strong vision and ability to coordinate the requirements of customer needs, development, and business development.

"Introduction to product management" addresses product management as a professional role and as an organizational function. It introduces the tools and concepts that individual products managers can use to create and maintain coordination among the multiple stakeholders within design, marketing, business development and product development. It also introduces concepts to understand and evaluate organisations and their approaches and competences in product management.

Product-stream Sept 25th (external link)

Stream for PM-lecture, "Product management and company lifecycle"

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Product management and company lifecycle

Session 6 on Product Management -lectures

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Schedule & Content

The course runs for 6 weeks, twice a week, starting from September 4th.

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Additional materials related to the lectures (external link)

Part 1: Product management

The key dimensions of the product

Three dimensions of product management: users, development, and business

Part 2: Product Organisation

Who and how does the product decision?

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How to join the sessions?

You can either come to hear the experts on campus or follow the sessions online.

You can follow the sessions as they fit your own schedule and interests. Register here.

You'll get an access to webinar and you can follow the sessions as they happen. You can also come to Otaniemi for live sessions. You'll also get access to supporting materials (licences may limit remote access, though).

If you belong to the Finnish startup or product communities, there'll be an on-demand streaming option. Videos from each session will become available a few days after the session.

As an student, you can follow the lectures or come and join the course "Product Management", and get access to additional content and company visits.

The course can be fitted to a number programs, but can well be taken also as a part of Product management -minor or as a stand-alone elective. The course has a limited intake.

Enrol to the course with Sisu, as usual.

This year, the sessions are open for all, but we are not offering an open for-credit course at this time. If you do have a non-degree study right in Aalto (e.g. through JOO-studies or as an alumni), the usual Aalto registration may apply.

But once the sessions are done, wrapped and in the files, we will come back with an online (and still widely available) version of the course. The exact format is open, but intent is clear.

If you prefer to wait for the proper course version (expected early 2024), leave us your contact info here, and we'll keep you posted.

If you just can't wait, and want to folllow the sessions now, register here. And, of course, you can do both!

Developed with leading experts

Product management is a hot and wide topic, with a lot of noise and opinions around it. Ideas are either very specific and particular, or then it is just that "it all depends...".

This course cuts through the product management and gives you a basis to make sense of it. This course has been created and organised from the start with the leading Finnish product management experts. In addition to the this year's line-up, there has been double the amount of experts that have contributed to ideation, crafting, and structuring of the course.