Technical Product Management: learn on 4 real industry cases (Udemy.com)
Boost your technicality (as a PM) or tech product skills (as an engineer) to grow in your current role
Created by: Vladimir Kalmykov
Last updated December 2025
What you will learn
- Why does a Tech Product Manager role popularity grow in IT industry and examples of the companies hiring TPMs today
- *Please note*: I do NOT teach basic PM-ing here - this course is an add-on to boost your existing skills, not to make you a PM from scratch!
- How to decompose large tech business problems and find/utilize tech insights (based on 4 real industry examples)
- What are the must-know Tech Product building blocks of any real service: APIs, architecture, reliability, monitoring, etc.
- What is the difference between a Tech PM and a PM, Developer, Program and Project manager, in a big company or a startup
- How to become a Tech Product Manager: growth reading materials for a PM or a Developer (no repetition of the PM base)
- How to improve projects at your current job with a Tech Product approach
- Bonus: feel free to message me with any questions you have regarding the course or your own product
How it compares
Against the other 54 rated Udemy courses in Product Management on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.2 out of 5higher than 12% of them
- Reviews1,589#13 of 55 by number of reviews
- Length3.2 hoursshorter than 61% of them
- Last updatedDecember 2025more recently than 53% of them
Course Description
Why Technical Products Management?
This course is about Tech Product Manager - a rapidly growing role in today's IT industry.
Many innovative companies (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Booking, Uber, etc) build a big portion of their value on the non-intuitive (for a classical product perspective) tech insights and need a mix of product and technical skills to drive it from a vague idea to the end customer facing solution. Think Google Search: minimum UI, but maximum algorithmical and infrastructural magic which almost fully determines a value and the overall experience. As you probably guessed, search algorithms and large-scale infrastructure are two examples of Tech PM sweet spots.
But it is a mistake to think that unless you work for one of IT-giants, there is no application of Tech PM skills. Look around for a second —mostly everything you encounter is an online-service of some size: you book a flight and hotel online, order food, learn guitar, sometimes even do guided sport and renew a passport with your government — everything is online. All of these products do not hang in the air — they are powered by ecosystems of actual software (e.g. Java) services and there is a product leader with a team driving them in the right (or wrong) direction. The moment mostly everything in the product becomes a service, the leader naturally gets involved in a Tech PM area.
Ok, landscape is changing, but does the required PM skill set changes together with it? I think, that partially — yes. To illustrate it, we might roughly estimate, that for any successful Product Manager (or an entrepreneur) in any modern IT-project (including startups) there are critical, important and nice-to-have set of skills:
Product Management base (critical, ~50% of success) to know how to deal with customer requirements, in other words to have a solid PM base (i do not teach it here - there are already hundreds of courses on the topic)
Technical Product Addition (important, ~30% of success) to easily combine external and internal systems together, keep in mind non-functional requirements (architecture, security, infrastructure, reliability, etc) and at the end turn a product idea into a real practical IT service. The course is exactly about this part.
Domain knowledge (nice to have, ~20% of success) a specific domain knowledge on top (e.g. about payments, or about ML, or a content processing, etc) to ask the right questions and go deeper if your product needs it. It is nice to have because you can always learn if your product and tech product base is strong enough.
Why i can talk about Tech Product Management?
I have a solid tech background (a PhD in Computer Science with 7 years of software development) and then 7 years of the Tech Product management at Booking. com in different product and tech departments. In other words, i have a lot to share with you regarding Tech PMing. Also I am a founder of productdo. io - practical simulators to boost PM skills in action, not in theory.
Structure of the course
In the Part 1 I explain in details why Tech PM role is gaining popularity with the examples of Google, Uber, AWS, Stripe, etc. and set the course goals.
In the Part 2 I quickly cover specifics of the Tech PM role (it is expected that you already know PM basis from another course) and explain the main difference between a Technical Product Manager, a classical Product Manager, an Engineer, a Project Manager and a Technical Program Manager (completely different roles!). It will help you to frame the right context and avoid a confusion about who does what.
The core practical Part 3 of the course consists of the 4 real tech product use cases (different industries and company setups), which i solve for you applying Tech PM thinking process. There are also quizzes after each case and the final assignment to solidify your knowledge. Students who understood and completed all the assignments of this part would be able to apply TPM approach to their projects.
In the Part 4 I provide learning directions of how to grow your Tech PM skills. I first cover main Tech Product building blocks (APIs, infrastructure, architecture, monitoring, reliability, security) and then give you links to a lot of external materials to boost your technicality and PM skills.
Enjoy and join a growing community of Tech Product Managers passionate about building rockstar products on yet undiscovered tech insights!
Instructor Details
- 4.2 Rating
1,589 Reviews
Vladimir Kalmykov
I started my Technical Product Manager journey a while ago with a PhD in Computer Science and 7 years of software development background.
When I joined Booking. com as an engineer I quickly realised that my passion lies somewhere between development and product and became one of the first Tech PMs in the company.
During the last 7 years I had a pleasure to work (and achieve decent results) in infrastructure, business services and payments teams first as a Tech PM, and then as Sr. Tech PM. Currently i am leading a track of 5 teams, bridging tech and payments together. Moreover, I am creating practical simulators for product managers on productdo. io - great way to learn job on real examples.
I would be happy to share my experience and to connect with people who are as passionate as me about creating innovative products on the tech insights.
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Reviews
By Karim Amer on 3/8/2026
This was a really insightful course and a great jump into TPM, I appreciate all the effort the mentor put in. what I would say is essentially missing is maybe a couple of QA of him and a hypothetical situation with his team, and that would have added great value, he brushed on it in his case studies, but a standalone 10 or 15 min video would have been a cherrry on top, overall good course and would recommend it.
By Denise Cheb on 6/30/2025
I found it to be a very helpful introduction to the TPM role. I especially appreciated the practical case studies in the later sections – they really brought the concepts to life. A big plus is the wealth of useful links provided within the presentations, which are good resources for further exploration. My main piece of feedback would be regarding the initial sections. While I understand the need for an introduction, I felt that a significant portion of Sections 1 and 2 could be condensed or even omitted. As a learner eager to dive into the core content, I would have preferred to jump straight into Section 3 to maximize efficiency. It's important for prospective students to understand that this course serves as an introduction to Technical Product Management. You won't become a TPM solely by watching these videos. As Vladimir rightly emphasizes, becoming proficient requires significant self-paced learning and consistent practice of the principles and recommendations shared throughout the course.
By Dushica Mirkovska on 1/25/2025
An excellent introductory course on Tech PM skills! The topics were presented in a very clear, concise, and pragmatic way—exactly what I needed at this moment. The real-world examples from different industries made the theory easily understandable and highly relatable from a practical perspective. I especially appreciated the thoughtfully curated collection of extra learning materials, which added additional value to the course. I highly recommend this course to anyone looking to build a strong foundation in Tech PM. Great job!
By Vishal Shetty on 9/17/2024
As a software engineer with some knowledge of product management, I did not get much value from this course. It is too basic for me. However, I liked the instructor's efforts to create and explain the product skills mindmap.
By ekopp@opentext.com Kopp on 1/19/2024
I mostly like the part where the Building blocks are explained so that i can easily identify which areas i need to cover more and get get more Information (via other udemy courses maybe) and the first chapters where the differences to other roles like PM or Dev are explained. A great help for me to find my way in my new TPM role. Oh and i love to see TPM as an upgrade of PM :-)
By Aditya Jain on 11/23/2023
Hi Vladamir, I really enjoyed the course, it definitely gives me the basic knowledge around TPM role and also allows me to think from wider landscape. I would have loved the course if the materials that you mentioned in the last sections [Shift to PM] were present. However, they are not there in the resources section. There is only 1 Pdf copy which is the only resource material and is the presentation that you shared throughout the course. I am really looking forward to applying skills that you taught and revisit some of the sessions again. To anyone who wish to get this course, please go for it, if you're looking for some foundational understanding of what TPM does and get practical knowledge through examples shared in the course.
By Sanja Đurić on 11/15/2023
This is a really well-constructed course for people who already have some knowledge of and experience in product management. It teaches about important technical aspects of product development and for beginners and non-tech people it might be a little overwhelming at moments. Personally, the exercise was a little too demanding for me, but it did spark my interest to learn more. I appreciate how practical and grounded in real-life examples this course is. The sound is sometimes weird, but closed captions help a lot. Thank you, Vladimir!
By Suzanth Subramaniyan on 7/13/2023
Good introduction. But Could be more concise, instead can be shared as reading material. They are self explanatory. I would call this more of a platform PM or an Infra PM rather than technical product manager. PM technical is much broader than in the sense of the web/app/cloud based applications only.
By Nallana Abhishek on 11/4/2022
When I started, I felt this as a very high level course and will not help me become a better tech PM than I already was. However, after a long time, I am happy to be wrong. Course helped me to structure my thoughts better. But why I would rate the course 5/5 is because of the additional reading material provided at the end of each lecture which I am sure will catapult me to the next level TPM
By Aditya Ananda Uttama on 9/13/2021
As a newbie in the platform/tech product management area, this course really gives me a good understanding of the basic concept and thinking framework of a technical product manager. It's well structured, practical, rich, and engaging. It's quite hard to find learning resources on tech PM like this one as it's sometimes too PM-generic or too techies. Also, Vladimir, it would be great if you keep update the use case example so that it could cover a whole lot more areas/scenarios. Big kudos!
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