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IS 331 Fundamentals of Digital Product Management

Winter 2018-2019
Class number: 26150
Section number: 810
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ONLIN E0000 Online Campus

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Summary

This course focuses on the central role of the Digital Product Manager in discovering, designing, and scaling digital products that are usable, valuable, and feasible. As learn by doing is the driving tenant of this course, students will actively practice innovation techniques, processes, and tools on a weekly basis. For the final project students will conduct a Design Sprint, moving from problem to validated prototype through the structured, efficient process pioneered by Google Ventures. This quarter students will partner with the City of Chicago to focus the Design Sprint project on real problems in Chicago. Furthermore, this course will include visits to innovation ecosystems such as 1871, a tour of the DePaul Idea Realization Lab, as well as guest lectures from prominent Digital Product Managers in Chicago. Topics include: understanding the role of the digital product manager within customer-centric product teams, digital product manager deliverables (e.g. roadmaps, vision, objectives), discovery and delivery processes (e.g. design thinking, agile/scrum, Lean Startup), the Design Sprint process.



Texts

INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love ? Second Edition. Cagan, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018. ISBN: 978-1-1193-8750-3

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days. Knapp, Simon & Schuster, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-5011-2174-6

A Guide to the Scrum Body of Knowledge. 2016 SCRUMstudy, a brand of VMEdu, Inc. ISBN: 978-0-9899252-0-4


School policies:

Changes to Syllabus

This syllabus is subject to change as necessary during the quarter. If a change occurs, it will be thoroughly addressed during class, posted under Announcements in D2L and sent via email.

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Academic Integrity and Plagiarism

This course will be subject to the university's academic integrity policy. More information can be found at http://academicintegrity.depaul.edu/ If you have any questions be sure to consult with your professor.

All students are expected to abide by the University's Academic Integrity Policy which prohibits cheating and other misconduct in student coursework. Publicly sharing or posting online any prior or current materials from this course (including exam questions or answers), is considered to be providing unauthorized assistance prohibited by the policy. Both students who share/post and students who access or use such materials are considered to be cheating under the Policy and will be subject to sanctions for violations of Academic Integrity.

Academic Policies

All students are required to manage their class schedules each term in accordance with the deadlines for enrolling and withdrawing as indicated in the University Academic Calendar. Information on enrollment, withdrawal, grading and incompletes can be found at http://www.cdm.depaul.edu/Current%20Students/Pages/PoliciesandProcedures.aspx.

Students with Disabilities

Students who feel they may need an accommodation based on the impact of a disability should contact the instructor privately to discuss their specific needs. All discussions will remain confidential.
To ensure that you receive the most appropriate accommodation based on your needs, contact the instructor as early as possible in the quarter (preferably within the first week of class), and make sure that you have contacted the Center for Students with Disabilities (CSD) at:
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