Program Overview
Product Management Program
The Product Management program explores the full product life cycle, from defining and developing to launching, scaling, and sunset. This course emphasizes strategic decision-making, value creation, and market fit, with a focus on tech-driven consumer products and applications across enterprise, industrial, medical, and automotive sectors.
Course Description
ENGR XLC 216: Product Management is a lecture-based course that studies the life cycle of a product, focusing on defining, developing, launching, scaling, and end of life for products. The course considers why a product is needed in the market, why a particular solution is the right product, and why a particular solution creates value for the customers and the company.
Course Details
- Lecture, four hours; outside study, eight hours
- Study is built around the notion that product management is about managing the life cycle of the product
- Focus on products that have technological characteristics in the consumer products domain, the fundamentals of which are also applicable to products within enterprise, industrial, medical, and automotive sectors
- Letter grading
Program Focus
The program focuses on strategic decision-making, value creation, and market fit, with a emphasis on tech-driven consumer products and applications across various sectors, including:
- Enterprise
- Industrial
- Medical
- Automotive
Additional Information
The program is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the product life cycle, from definition to sunset. The course is taught by experienced instructors and is part of the UCLA Extension program.
