Smart Tips: Product Management (Udemy.com)
A collection of 28 micro-lessons to find impact, innovation, and success as a product manager
Created by: Todd Birzer
Last updated May 2025
What you will learn
- Find deep customer insight to power product innovation
- Collaborate successfully with engineers and product designers
- Test and evolve your product concepts
- Create a product vision, objectives, and strategy for long-term impact and competitive advantage
- Use product analytics to optimize your product
- Discover growth opportunities throughout the product lifecycle
How it compares
Against the other 54 rated Udemy courses in Product Management on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 75% of them
- Reviews1,241#16 of 55 by number of reviews
- Length2.5 hoursshorter than 74% of them
- Last updatedMay 2025earlier than 68% of them
Course Description
Udemy's "Smart Tips" is the ultimate micro-learning series. Short, standalone lectures let you learn new skills at your own pace, anytime, anywhere. Find what you need, when you need it. Elevate your learning with Smart Tips!
As product managers, we have huge upside opportunities. We are in jobs that - if done well - have a large, long-term, positive impact on our customers, our teams, and our companies.
But to get there - to go big - we need to approach our jobs with skill, insight, and experimentation.
Welcome to Smart Tips: Product Management! This course has been designed to help you find these skills, to help you find success for your product, and to help you find success in your product management career.
Using the fast-paced Smart Tips format, this course was built to give you quick bursts of learning on critical product management skills. The videos are standalone, and don't need to be viewed in any particular order.
If you need to do competitive analysis for your product, look for the "How to Analyze Competitors" lecture. If you want to get customer feedback on your new product ideas, look for the "Test Your Product Concepts" lecture. If you are struggling to work with your sales team, find the "Working with Sales: 5 Best Practices" video.
The content has been tuned for product managers - or aspiring product managers - with 0-3 years of experience. We cover the spectrum of product management - software, hardware, and services. And to make the material come alive, I've incorporated many company and product examples.
Together with each video - to help your learning - I've attached a pdf summary (or template). You can apply these learnings today, tomorrow, this week, this month.
Step-by-step, you can can get better. Step-by-step, you can go big.
I hope you will join us!
One final note: This course includes the use of artificial intelligence in the form of an AI-driven role play.
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
1,241 Reviews
Todd Birzer
I'm a product management instructor and consultant, focused on helping product teams become more strategic, impactful, and innovative.
I have over 25 years of experience in product management - as a product manager and leader of product teams - mostly at California-based companies. My most recent role was as the Head of Product at a Canadian start-up, which was good fun. My work has spanned software, hardware, services, artificial intelligence, and product design.
I have an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and I am the author of the book The Three-Minute Product Manager.
We have such incredible opportunities as product managers. What a gift this job!
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Reviews
By Berenice Munian on 11/1/2025
The course offered a valuable mix of refreshed concepts and new perspectives. I’ve taken away several practical insights that I can apply in my day-to-day work, and I plan to revisit parts of the content to reinforce and embed these learnings over time.
By Jeff Larson on 10/10/2024
I've been doing product management for just over two years now, and the content within this course related very well to the work I am currently doing. It was very helpful, and I look forward to using what I have learned.
By Anonymized User on 3/1/2024
Well not an exact match because the products in my company are automotive in nature and not as abstract as software and IT companies. More examples of automotive type products and potential customers scenarios would be helpful to connect with the lesson.
By Nilesh Chandorkar on 8/23/2023
Excellent course... Clear, concise and upto the mark. Todd is excellent narrator and kept me involved and engaged throughout the course. This course helped me to get valuable insights on some of the topics and his resources are helpful too. I would recommend all and anyone who is interested in Product Management to go through this course atleast once.
By Sherif Fahmy on 6/11/2023
I highly recommend this course to anyone interested in product management. Its practical approach, comprehensive curriculum, knowledgeable instructor, and collaborative learning environment make it an outstanding learning experience. I feel confident that the skills and insights gained from this course will significantly contribute to my success as a product manager.
By Prakash on 3/9/2023
I Love how Todd sets the big picture and then connects the details. The examples are diverse and interesting! One of key element of product management is to convey complex information in a simple way to drive a point of view. That itself is a great indirect learning in his courses. His conversation style is engaging. Very thoughtful of him to provide the slides in resources section.
By Anonymized User on 12/20/2022
I am an experienced Product Mng myself and saw in the training all the good practices leading to serve better customers, all tose best practices gathered together in a very good summary easy to digest and/or refresh. Thanks a lot!
By Daeshawn Ballard on 3/13/2022
This is exactly what I need, a reference of sorts to review the basics and create strong fundamental habits. I think What would make this course perfect for me, is if there were a large question bank to test myself on alongside this information.
By Anonymized User on 1/24/2022
Course was on point and really good. Thank you for he time spent putting this together. Worthwhile information for all professionals.
By Katy.ElderKaty.Elder Elder on 1/3/2022
As a Technical Architect/Engineer looking to break into Product Management, I really enjoyed the thoroughness of this course. The material was presented in a clear, logical and methodical fashion which was easy to follow and process. Thank you.
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