Product Design & Management

What you will learn

• · Plan ethical discovery around decision-relevant questions
• · Frame problems from evidence without embedding a preferred solution
• · Map actors, workflows, constraints, and exclusion risks
• · Prioritise opportunities transparently and communicate what will not be built
• · Slice a responsible MVP around the riskiest assumption
• · Design experiments with thresholds and decision rules

Who this course is for

• Founders and operators making product decisions under real constraints
• Associate PM aspirants and delivery collaborators
• Builders who must communicate trade-offs to leaders and partners
• Designers moving toward product generalist roles focused on decisions and evidence

Skills you will develop

Product discovery · Problem framing · Opportunity selection · Prioritisation and trade-offs · MVP slicing · Product experiments · Metrics and guardrails · Outcome roadmaps · Stakeholder communication · Decision documentation

Prerequisites

• Basic familiarity with a digital product or service
• Willingness to interview, observe, analyse, and revise assumptions
• Access to simple document, spreadsheet, and prototyping tools
• No coding or recruitment experience required

Course journey

Learn → Practice → Build → Prove. Lessons teach the idea. Practice applies it. The project is what you can submit as evidence.

Practice

1 optional practice exercise — apply what you learned. Practice is not required to complete the course.

Assessment

• Product Building for African Builders assessment · pass mark 70%

Prove

Course completion means finishing required lessons , required assignments , the course project , and the course assessment . That grants a certificate of completion — not a professional certification. Optional practice does not block completion.

Builder Passport evidence is awarded for the completed project, not for watching lessons or passing a quiz alone.