## Q: What are the best PM courses out there?
We’re living in a golden age of courses. Courses as far as the eye can see. A great course can change your life (I know many people who’ve had transformational experiences), and a bad course can be a huge time and money suck. So you need to choose wisely. With the end of the year coming and L&D budgets expiring, it’s a great time to lock down a course.
Though I haven’t taken many PM courses recently, I did teach a course last year (that I’ve since put on pause to make time for other projects, like the podcast), and through my research prepping for the course, and [this great Twitter thread](https://twitter.com/lennysan/status/1600272528735604737?s=20&t=eW6Z_Rmi66qzCHIuU59Kiw), I feel like I’ve got a pretty good idea of which courses are worth your time. Below, I’m going to go out on a limb and recommend 10 PM courses to check out—five for senior PMs and five for up-and-coming PMs—plus a bunch of honorable mentions if you’re an overachiever.
I’m mostly limiting my recommendations to courses that are (1) live, (2) cohort-based, (3) have run a couple of cohorts, and (4) plan to run many more. This list is my best guess of what’s great. I’m sure I missed some and am unaware of others. Please let me know in the comments if you’ve taken a course that you’ve loved that I didn’t list.
5 courses to check out for senior PMs
1. [Managing your PM career in 2023 & beyond](https://maven.com/shreyas-doshi/product-management-career) by Shreyas Doshi—just launched and is already beloved by one and all 2. [Product Strategy](https://www.reforge.com/programs/product-strategy) by Reforge—a foundational Reforge course, created by the greats Casey Winters and Fareed Mosavat 3. [Product Strategy Workshop](https://maven.com/gibson-biddle/product-strategy) by Gibson Biddle—you need to see Gibson in action, especially now that he’s now teaching cohort-based courses on Maven 4. [Continuous Interviewing](https://learn.producttalk.org/course/continuous-interviewing) by Teresa Torres—will change the way you build product 5. [Product Leadership](https://www.reforge.com/programs/product-leadership) by Reforge—for budding managers, created by Ravi Mehta
5 PM courses to check out for up-and-coming PMs
1. [Product Management Foundations](https://www.reforge.com/programs/product-management-foundations) by Reforge—probably the best course out there for new PMs 2. [Simulator for Learning Data-Driven Product Management](https://gopractice.io/course/pm/) by Sean Ellis and Oleg Ya on GoPractice—I wasn’t aware of this one until recently. It’s not live or cohort-based, but I’m including it anyway because so many people have recommended it.
3. [Assumption Testing](https://www.producttalk.org/programs/assumption-testing) by Teresa Torres—will help you avoid wasting time on the wrong ideas 4. [The Growth Series](https://www.reforge.com/programs/growth-series) by Reforge—never too early to start learning about growth 5. [The Product Principles Sprint](https://www.section4.com/courses/product/product-principles-sprint) by Section4 and Prof. Adam Alter—a recent discovery
Honorable mentions
Here are some additional courses to check out, including a few that are self-paced, in-person, or brand-new:
1. Reforge courses
1. [Mastering Product Management](https://www.reforge.com/programs/mastering-product-management) 2. [Experimentation + Testing](https://www.reforge.com/programs/experimentation-testing) 3. [Retention + Engagement](https://www.reforge.com/programs/retention-and-engagement) 2. Maven courses
1. [Break into AI Product Management & Get Certified](https://maven.com/marily-nika/technical-product-management) by Marily Nika 2. [Launch Your Product Management Career](https://maven.com/peter-yang/launch-your-product-management-career) by Peter Yang 3. [Building B2B Marketing](https://maven.com/mkt1/building-marketing) by Emily Kramer 4. [Product Psychology Bootcamp](https://maven.com/behavioral-design/bd-bootcamp) by Nir Eyal 5. [Influence Without Authority](https://maven.com/crossing-career-chasms/influence-without-authority) by Satish Mummareddy 3. [INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love](https://www.svpg.com/inspired-workshop/) by Silicon Valley Product Group (in-person workshop) 4. [Design Thinking Bootcamp](https://dschool.stanford.edu/executive-education/dbootcamp) (in person) or [Product Management certificate program](https://online.stanford.edu/programs/product-management) (online) by Stanford 5. [Becoming a Product Manager: A Complete Guide](https://www.linkedin.com/learning/becoming-a-product-manager-a-complete-guide) by Cole Mercer and Evan Kimbrell (self-paced and online) 6. [Insurjo](https://www.theproductfolks.com/insurjo-product-management-program) and [Upraised](https://www.upraised.co/) for folks based in India
Has any other course transformed how you build product? Are you working on a course that you’d love for me to check out? Let me know by leaving a comment 👇
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