Government Product Manager Training
Two-day Product Manager training for civil servants in the role or moving into it, aligned to the Government Digital and Data Capability Framework.
About This Course
This two-day course is for Product Managers and Product Owners in government and for people who want to become one. It is aligned to the Government Digital and Data Capability Framework. By the end you’ll be able to set a product vision, put a backlog in priority order and build a roadmap that ministers and delivery teams can follow.
In government your customers are citizens, one of your stakeholders may be a minister and a policy announcement can change your priorities. We built the course around that.
What You’ll Learn
By the end of the two days you’ll be able to:
- Explain the Product Manager role in government and balance user needs, policy intent and technical constraints
- Write a product vision and strategy that gives a government product a clear direction
- Build a roadmap and use it to explain your plans to stakeholders, ministers and delivery teams
- Put a backlog in priority order using prioritisation frameworks that work with governance in government
- Use user research as evidence for your product decisions
- Work with policy teams, GDaD colleagues and senior leaders
- Measure success with KPIs, OKRs and outcome-based delivery
Course Agenda
- Day 1: The PM role in government, product vision and strategy, roadmapping, practical exercises
- Day 2: Backlog management, prioritisation, user research, stakeholder engagement, capstone exercise
Who This Is For
- Product Managers and Product Owners in UK government and people who want to become one
- Business Analysts moving into product roles
- Service Owners who want product management skills
The course suits people at Associate to Senior Product Manager level in the Capability Framework.
What’s Included
- 14 hours of live virtual training across 2 days
- Digital course materials and reference guides
- A Mural workspace with product templates you can reuse
- Certificate of attendance
- Email support for 30 days after the course
- An optional PSPO I (Professional Scrum Product Owner) exam voucher, available separately (£150+VAT). The course content is aligned to the Professional Scrum framework and prepares you for the independent assessment if you choose to go for certification.
GDaD Alignment
The course is aligned to the GDaD Product Manager role at Associate, Product Manager and Senior Product Manager levels.
Format
We run open sessions live on Microsoft Teams and Mural. For a private group we can teach face to face at your premises. Open dates appear on this page when we set them, and we run the course for your team alone on a date we agree with you. A private cohort costs £6,950+VAT for up to 12 people.