Empowering talent for business excellence

I T 107
Software Product Manager
A.Objectives of the course
The course aims to provide an understanding of how to develop a software product and how is the process is different from delivering a software service.
B. Target participants
IT project managers who aspire to manage development of software products, a typical activity in software product companies and tech start-ups.
C. Duration
15 hours (10 sessions of 90 minutes each) over a period two months
D. Pedagogy
The pedagogy of the course is based on understanding the concepts of software product development and simulating a product development scenario leveraging agile concept and tools.
E. Session details
Session No. Topic
1. Software service and product – similarities and differences
2. Basics of design thinking required to develop software products
3. Estimating market potential of a software product, basics of research methods for software products
4. Agile values, principles and practices relevant for product development
5. Defining user requirements for a product which is yet to have any user
6. Designing prototypes for validation, types of prototypes
7. Basics of agile tools like Jira
8. Simulating product development on agile principles and practices
9. Basics of platform economy for platform-based software products
10. Pricing and selling a software product
F. Course Director and Core Faculty
Mr. Atanu Ghosh
Profile
Atanu is an Electrical Engineer from Jadavpur University and obtained Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He is a Visiting Faculty in several leading academic institutions like XLRI, IIM Calcutta, IIM Udaipur, etc.
Atanu is the Founder and CEO of Bluebeaks Solutions, which is engaged in education, research, consulting and training in the digital transformation domain; and Salt n Soap, an ecommerce technology and analytics platform. Before his entrepreneurial stint he was a Director with IBM and, prior to that, a Principal with PwC Consulting. Atanu has consulted various Fortune 100 companies in India, USA, UK, Singapore and China.