Armenian Code Academy & Partners | 2021-2022
PRODUCT ACADEMY
2021 / Armenian Code academy & partners
Product Academy
A unique level-up training&mentorship program for product professionals led by global experts
Next Level Product Professional in 12 months
- Training
November 2021 - March 20224-month intensive training with global mentors and interactive seminars01 - Networking
April - May 2022Product community launch and Global Product Conference in Yerevan02 - Mentorship
May - November 20226 months of biweekly mentorship sessions with your mentors03
Choose your path
Product Management
Program Structure
Program Structure
The best way to improve your professional skills and increase your value
- Program Duration4 months
- Weekly commitment5.5 - 8 hours
- Instruction LanguageEnglish
- Primary Target AudienceProduct managers (at least APM level), startup founders, and C-level executives
Product Management Mentors
Rafayel Mkrtchyan, Cohort Lead
Co-founder, Chief Product Officer at PlayEngine
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
I am a product management advisor who helps companies improve their product discovery and delivery processes. I teach teams how to set up a winning product strategy, run customer and product development processes, develop outcome- and data-driven mindset, as well as robust their lean, agile, and design thinking skills.
- Max HoldenFounder & Art Director
- Eva StarkCustomer Support
- Julia BushDesign Director
- Carlos LottMarketing Director
Sessions Structure
- 1Product Management Masterclass Sessions with leading product companies in Silicon Valley2 sessions every week. Each session will consist of 1-1.5 hours of lecturing, and 1 hour of Q&A, covering topics from the course syllabus
- 2Advisory Session by Rafayel Mkrtchyan designed to answer questions about everything product.1 session every week. Each session will consist of 1.5-2 hours. Students will submit predefined questions and I will go through them
- 3“Doing Product @ Company X” sessions from Armenian companies with decent enough product cultures1 session every 1 or 2 weeks. Each session will consist of 1-hour lecturing, and 1 hour of Q&A.
Product Management Course Syllabus
- Introduction to the Program
- Behind Every Great Product
- A Day In The Life Of A Product Manager
- First 3 Months Of Joining A Product
- Product Manager’s Weekly Toolkit
- Skill Set A Modern-day Product Manager Should Master
- Influencing Without Authority
- Introduction to Product Discovery
- How To Know Your Customers
- The Magic Behind Continuous Feedback by …
- Applying Design Thinking To Your Product Discovery
- Running Product Discovery For Consumer Products
- Running Product Discovery For Two-sided Products
- Running Product Discovery For B2B Products
- Building An Experiment-driven Processes
- How To Measure And Prioritize As A Product Manager
- Building A Winning Product Strategy
- Building Effective Product Roadmaps
- Creating Effective Product Requirement Documents by …
- Choosing The Right Product Development Lifecycle Model
- A Story Of A Successful Launch
- Building AI-powered Products
- Data Analytics For Better Decision Making
- Product Manager’s Analytics Tool Kit
- The Fundamentals Of Split Testing
- Choosing The Metrics That Matter The Most
- Using Data To Make Go-to-market Decisions
- Analyzing User Behavior Inside Your Product
- Becoming A Growth-oriented Product Manager
- Product Management for Data Science and AI
- Supporting Product Internalization And Localization
- Deciding Monetization Models And Product Pricing Strategies
Product Design
Program Structure
Program Structure
The best way to improve your professional skills and increase your value
- Program Duration4 months
- Weekly commitmentup to 8 hours
- Instruction LanguageEnglish
- Primary Target AudienceUX/UI Product UX Designers with some experience, who needed a level up
Product Design Mentors
Anna Vasyukova, Cohort Lead
Lead Product Designer @Circa | Certified UX Designer | Mentor @ADPList | 15+ years in Product Design
I’m an experienced data-driven UX designer who leads end-to-end UX process:
efficient UX process setup, design system setup, qualitative and quantitative user research, market research, product design decision making, ideation, creating user flows, prototyping, validation, UX metrics setup, UX analytics.
efficient UX process setup, design system setup, qualitative and quantitative user research, market research, product design decision making, ideation, creating user flows, prototyping, validation, UX metrics setup, UX analytics.
- Max HoldenFounder & Art Director
- Eva StarkCustomer Support
- Julia BushDesign Director
- Carlos LottMarketing Director
Sessions Structure
- 1Product Design Masterclass sessions from leading product companies.2 sessions every week. Each session will consist of 1-1.5 hours of lecturing, and 1 hour of Q&A, covering topics from the course syllabus
- 2Q&A Sessions with professionals1 session every week. Each session will consist of 1.5-2 hours. Students will submit predefined questions and I will go through them
- 3Speaker sessions1 session every 1 or 2 weeks. Each session will consist of 1-hour lecturing, and 1 hour of Q&A.
Product Design
Course Syllabus
- Intro into UX
- Benefits of UX
- UX roles
- Design approaches & processes (Double diamond, Design Thinking, Lean UX)
- Data-driven UX Design
- Value of research studies
- Get to know the people we're designing a solution for
- Path to User Empathy
- Understanding Mental Models
- Defining the problem and the design challenge
- Problem Statement
- Design and execute a UX Research Plan, (research goals, recruiting criteria, and scripts)
- UX Research Methods
- Determine which research methodology to use for your projects and when it’s most appropriate
- Analyze qualitative and quantitative data collected during the research
- Discover themes and opportunity areas from research
- Define problems as an opportunity
- Mapping technics
- Turning data into personas
- Assumption Personas
- Create a Journey Map to understand customer needs
- Discovery results' presentation
- Critical thinking
- Collaborative ideation techniques and how to apply them to focus on the best ideas
- Idea Prioritization Technics
- Decision-making Frameworks
- Organizing Ideation workshops for your team
- Finding Inspiration and Creativity
- Fundamentals of Usability
- Usability Heuristics
- The underlying reasoning of usability guidelines
- The Human Mind and Usability
- Cognitive phycology and user behaviour
- HCI and the psychology behind user decision-making
- Emotional design
- UX Laws
- Information architecture: principles and validation
- User Flows
- Visual hierarchy
- Understand various user interface layouts at different levels of fidelity
- Sketching, Wire-framing, Prototyping
- Rapid Prototyping for Product Design
- UX Deliverables
- Design Systems and Pattern Libraries
- Usability Testing Principles
- Plan, run, analyze
- Quick testing methods
- Usability test tasks
- Usability test metrics
- Usability evaluation and analysis
- Iterate on prototypes based on user feedback
- Prioritize the issues
- How can we measure the design's success?
- Formative vs. Summative Evaluations
- UX Benchmarking
- UX Metrics Frameworks
- Define actionable metrics that will work best for your own product.
- Connect UX Metrics and KPIs
- Connecting UX metrics to organizational or business goals
- Calculate ROI
- Analytic tools
- Data-driven design tools
- Quantitative UX data
- Data-Driven Design Thinking
- Presenting analytic data
- Post-Launch Analysis
- What to start with when joining a project
- UX Questionnaire
- Transparent & Collaborative Design Process
- Effective Communication with Executives and Stakeholders
- Gaining stakeholder buy-in
- UX Design Strategy
- DesignOps
- Helping your organization understand the value of Design
- Product design maturity level
- Solo Product Designer
- Deliver great products with Agile
- Design Sprints
- Principles of inclusive design
- Accessibility
- Design for Inclusion
- WCAG Principles
- Right content for the right user
- Voice and tone
- Microcopy
- Onboarding users
- Collaborating with UX Writer
What is Income Share Agreement?
Income Share Agreement (ISA) means that our success completely depends on your professional and financial growth. According to ISA you pay 20% of monthly gross salary until the entire tuition fee is not covered.
Income Share Agreement (ISA) means that our success completely depends on your professional and financial growth. According to ISA you pay 20% of monthly gross salary until the entire tuition fee is not covered.
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Armenian Code Academy
3 Hakob Hakobyan St.
3 Hakob Hakobyan St.
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