Mobile Product Management For Beginners

Learn the fundamentals to successfully work closely with designers and developers to build mobile applications

What you'll learn
Learn the fundamentals of mobile product management
Requirements
No pre-requisites, although familiarity with basic business concepts is helpful
Description
The growing advent of smartphones, along with apps that run on them is perhaps the biggest technical phenomena in recent times. Smartphones have now become the remote control for our lives, with things happening in just a single tap through a surplus of mobile apps to choose from. Despite this, there is a lack of mobile product management courses available. This course will address this problem and teach specific topics to mobile product management:  what are the different types of mobile apps, common components and views, design guidelines, common capabilities, releasing a native app and analytics. Students aren't required to know anything related to mobile product management beforehand. We'll cover the fundamentals as well as talking about more detailed topics and share my learnings on the job.Your instructor:Alexander Thomsen is an experienced product owner, having worked both in Asia and Europe. Currently, he is a product owner at Sparrow Ventures, a Swiss-based venture builder, where he is responsible for validating, prototyping and building MVPs in multiple industries. Who this course is for:Anyone looking to get a job in mobile Product ManagementAnyone aspiring to understand mobile development

Overview

Section 1: What is this course about and why do it

Lecture 1 What is this course about

Lecture 2 Who am I and why am I making this course

Lecture 3 Feedback feedback feedback

Section 2: Product management fundamentals

Lecture 4 What is the role of a product manager

Lecture 5 Why and when are mobile apps useful

Lecture 6 Differences between Android and iOS

Section 3: What are the different types of mobile apps

Lecture 7 What will be covered in this section

Lecture 8 Native app

Lecture 9 Web apps

Lecture 10 Hybrid app

Lecture 11 Flutter and React Native

Lecture 12 How to decide which type to choose

Section 4: Common app components and views

Lecture 13 What will be covered in this section

Lecture 14 Bars

Lecture 15 Action/bottom sheets

Lecture 16 Cards

Lecture 17 Dialogs

Lecture 18 Snackbars

Lecture 19 Buttons

Lecture 20 Selection controls

Lecture 21 Haptics

Section 5: Design guidelines

Lecture 22 What will be covered in this section

Lecture 23 iOS Human design and Android material UI

Lecture 24 Device screen sizes and orientations

Lecture 25 Navigation

Lecture 26 Text

Lecture 27 Thumb friendly zones

Lecture 28 Launch screen

Section 6: Common app capabilities

Lecture 29 What will be covered in this section

Lecture 30 Unintrusive permissions

Lecture 31 Notifications

Lecture 32 Authentication

Lecture 33 Localisation

Lecture 34 Deep linking

Lecture 35 Web views

Lecture 36 Security and privacy

Section 7: Releasing a native app

Lecture 37 What will be covered in this section

Lecture 38 releasing native app compared to web

Lecture 39 Release scope and frequency

Lecture 40 App versioning

Lecture 41 Testing and environments

Lecture 42 Have a checklist

Lecture 43 Submitting to app or play store and roll-out

Section 8: Analytics

Lecture 44 Basics of app analytics

Lecture 45 Common tools

Lecture 46 Collecting user feedback in-app and ratings

Section 9: Conclusion

Lecture 47 Congratulations!

Beginners to mobile product management