• PSWT-PROD (Product Management)
  

Dozenten

• Dr. Erich Meier

• Prof. Dr. Dirk Riehle, M.B.A.
  

Inhalt

Product management is an important function in software development organizations. A product manager conceives and defines new products. His or her task is to understand the market incl. important customers, to develop a product vision from that understanding, to translate it into product requirements, define those requirements on a by-feature basis and work with engineering to ensure these features are properly realized in the product under development.

• Role, tasks, and responsibilities of a product manager

• Process, methods, techniques and tools of product management

• Managing incremental/sustaining as well as disruptive innovation

• Open source product management; new trends in product management
  

This course combines student presentations with business cases with video lectures. It is run as a block from 9am – noon on Tuesday morning. For past impressions see http://osr.cs.fau.de/category/teaching/prod/

There should be a StudOn class section with additional materials; please make sure you sign-up. If the materials aren't there yet, they'll be coming soon.

For the schedule see http://goo.gl/tTAI0

Lernziele und Kompetenzen

• Understand the role, function, and responsibilities of a product manager

• Understand key concepts, methods, and tools of software product management

• Understand different business situations, incl. Incremental vs. disruptive innovation
  

Verwendbarkeit des Moduls

• Seminar (5 ECTS)

• Vorlesung + Übungen (5 ECTS)
  

Studien- und Prüfungsleistungen

Grades are determined by

• class work (40%)

• home work (60%)
  

For more information see http://wp.me/pDU66-bx

Unterrichtssprache

• English and German; students may choose their preferred language
  

Vorbereitende Literatur

• See http://pmbycase.com
  

Credits: 5