All 60 tasks, level by level
The real graded Product Management tasks the portal assigns, grouped into three levels.
The portal assigns these Product Management tasks. Finish Level 1 before Level 2 and Level 2 before Level 3. Your mentor may mark some tasks as required for the certificate.
Level 1: Foundations (24 tasks)
| Task | What to do |
|---|---|
| What a product manager does | Write a page on the PM role: discovery, delivery, working with engineering, design and business. |
| Product teardown | Pick an app you use daily and describe its users, problem solved, key features and how it makes money. |
| User personas | Create 3 personas for a college canteen ordering app from short interviews with 5 students. |
| Problem statement | Write a clear problem statement and the evidence for it for one persona. |
| Competitor analysis | Compare 4 competitors in a table: features, pricing, strengths and gaps. |
| User journey map | Map the journey of a student ordering food today, with pain points at each step. |
| Write user stories | Write 10 user stories with acceptance criteria in the As a / I want / So that format. |
| Prioritisation | Prioritise 15 features with RICE or MoSCoW and explain your top 5. |
| Wireframes | Sketch low-fidelity wireframes for the main flow in Figma, Excalidraw or on paper. |
| Agile basics | Explain sprints, backlog, stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives, and run a mini retro on your own week. |
| Metrics | Define a North Star metric and 5 supporting metrics for the canteen app. |
| Product vision | Write a one-paragraph vision and a one-page product strategy for the app. |
| Jobs to be done | Write five jobs-to-be-done statements for a student learning app. |
| Problem interviews log | Keep a log of 10 short user conversations and tag the problems mentioned. |
| Feature request triage | Sort 20 feature requests by theme and write which problem each really points to. |
| App store review analysis | Analyse 50 app store reviews of a competitor and summarise the top complaints. |
| Simple OKRs | Write one objective and three key results for a product for the next quarter. |
| Release checklist | Write a release checklist covering testing, docs, support and announcements. |
| User flow diagram | Draw the flow for sign-up to first value for a product you use. |
| Write a clear bug report | Write three bug reports with steps, expected and actual results and severity. |
| Meeting facilitation | Run a 30-minute meeting with an agenda and send notes with decisions. |
| Basic SQL for PMs | Answer five product questions from a sample database with SQL. |
| Pricing page review | Review three SaaS pricing pages and note what makes them clear or confusing. |
| Onboarding teardown | Teardown the onboarding of two apps and list ideas you would borrow. |
Level 2: Building real features (20 tasks)
| Task | What to do |
|---|---|
| Product requirements document | Write a PRD for one feature: goal, users, stories, scope, out of scope, metrics and risks. |
| Roadmap | Build a Now / Next / Later roadmap and explain why it is outcome-based, not date-based. |
| Customer interviews | Run 5 problem interviews with a script, record notes and summarise the patterns. |
| Survey design | Design and run a short survey with at least 20 responses and analyse the results. |
| MVP definition | Define the smallest version that tests your riskiest assumption and how you will measure it. |
| Clickable prototype | Build a clickable prototype in Figma and test it with 3 users. |
| Funnel analysis | Use sample data to build a sign-up to order funnel and find the biggest drop-off. |
A/B test plan | Plan an A/B test: hypothesis, variants, metric, sample size and how long to run it. |
| Working with engineers | Pair with a developer intern to estimate stories and split one large story into small ones. |
| Stakeholder update | Write a weekly product update for stakeholders: progress, metrics, risks and asks. |
| Opportunity solution tree | Build an opportunity solution tree from an outcome down to experiments. |
| Story mapping | Create a user story map and slice it into releases. |
| Usability test report | Run a usability test with 5 users and write findings with severity. |
| Metrics tree | Break down a North Star metric into input metrics you can influence. |
| Experiment results write-up | Analyse sample A/B test data and write a decision memo. |
| Customer support insights | Read 30 support tickets (real or sample) and turn them into product insights. |
| Sprint goal setting | Write sprint goals for three sprints and link them to the roadmap. |
| Release notes for users | Write release notes that explain benefits, not just features. |
| Competitive positioning | Write a positioning statement and a one-page battle card against a competitor. |
| Accessibility requirements | Add accessibility acceptance criteria to five user stories. |
Level 3: Professional work and capstone (16 tasks)
| Task | What to do |
|---|---|
| Go-to-market plan | Write a launch plan: audience, message, channels, pricing and launch checklist. |
| Pricing strategy | Compare freemium, subscription and pay-per-use for your product and recommend one with numbers. |
| Analytics dashboard | Build a product dashboard (in a spreadsheet, Looker Studio or Power BI) with your key metrics. |
| Retention analysis | Make a cohort retention chart from sample data and suggest two ideas to improve retention. |
| Trade-off decision | Write a decision memo on a hard trade-off (speed vs quality, feature vs fix) with options and a recommendation. |
| AI feature spec | Spec an AI-powered feature: user value, data needed, risks, evaluation and fallback when the AI is wrong. |
| Real company product review | Review one Training Trains, W3AppDevelopers or DomainHostly product page and write improvement suggestions with priorities. |
| Capstone: product case | Deliver a complete product case: research, personas, PRD, prototype, roadmap, metrics and a 10-slide pitch. |
| Business case | Write a business case for a new feature with costs, revenue impact and risks. |
| Platform vs feature decision | Decide whether to build a reusable platform capability or a one-off feature, with a memo. |
| Product analytics plan | Write an event tracking plan with event names, properties and dashboards. |
| Sunset a feature | Plan how to remove an underused feature with communication and data. |
| Pricing experiment | Design a safe pricing experiment and what you would measure. |
| Product review presentation | Present a quarterly product review with metrics, wins, misses and next steps. |
| Ethics review | Review a feature for dark patterns, privacy and fairness issues. |
| Capstone 2: ship a small product | Ship a small working product or feature with a developer intern (no-code is fine), get real users and report on metrics and learnings. |