Hack Your Software Career Growth.

Learn Business Skills to Become 10X Better

Today’s software professionals need a mix of technical and business skills

Attend Workshop

4 hour career defining workshop for software professionals

Grow with world-class technology professionals who are ready to break the wall between technology and business teams.

Competing on the basis of technical skills is no longer enough to achieve exponential growth in the software profession.

Achieve an Extraordinary Career Growth as a Technology Professional

Learn business acumen to increase your worth as a software professional.

Learn Business Language

Start talking to business folks in their language. Impress your bosses.

Create Business Impact

Add value to your business and job by understanding the key to growth.

Collaborate Better

Collaborate with nontechnical stakeholders easily. Launch faster and better.

At the end of the day, your job is not to write code. Your job is to create business value.

Praise for Lokesh

Hear from my students who attended various programs recently

I would like to express my gratitude to Lokesh Gupta for creating a structured program and assisting us in taking concepts from the ground up. Looking forward to implement the learnings in my day to day work.

Aman Kumar Product @ HTC Global Services

Very well crafted course, actually one of its kind. It was a combination of concise yet very engaging live sessions and daily problem solving. Never had a dull moment. Thanks to our instructor/mentor Lokesh Gupta sir for your constant feedback on our assignments, which helped us to develop a thinking process similar to that of a "PM".

Bharat Agarwal Senior Architect, L&T

I am thankful to Lokesh Gupta for giving me this opportunity. The assignments made me polish my skills a lot. I have worked on various real-world problems, and different use cases, collaborating with Industry experienced professionals, product managers & mentors. This was a challenging journey that gave me a great learning experience. This program helped me a lot to learn and unlearn, and cleared so many myths that I had on day one.

Kshamta Pande Pareek Allen IntelliBrain

I pondered whether or not to participate in the bootcamp at first. But, after going through the entire procedure and completing the tasks, I consider myself privileged to have taken part in this. Lokesh has put in a lot of effort into this bootcamp, is really appreciable. You're doing a fantastic job!

Yogesh Vaidya MBA, IIM Sambalpur

Thank you Lokesh Gupta sir for providing me this opportunity and the constant support throughout the program. The journey was full of learning and it was an enriching experience for all of us.The whole program is well structured that it engages the participant well and develops his/her product management mindset.

Mayuri Sawlani Big Data Developer, Reliance Jio

Thanks a lot Lokesh for all your effort for making the entire program, I did several courses earlier but the insight that I got with this program and from your experience is incomparable. Definitely many take away from it and improvisation needed on which I will continue to work upon.

Dinesh Mishra Product Manager, SailPoint

Ready To Join?

Majority of our students covered the cost of our program via their learning & development/training budgets. If you'd like to expense our program, we would be happy to work with you and your manager. We've also designed this template to help you communicate the key outcomes of our program with your manager.

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4 hour career defining workshop for software professionals

What you will learn?

Workshop covers everything you need to know about business as a software professional

Business Management

Overview of how a business is run from top to bottom

Product Management

Fundamentals of Product, Design, Customers and Market Dynamics

Agile Product Development

Product development lifecycle from a business perspective

Data Analytics

Measuring the impact of the work you do on business and product.

Product Marketing & Sales

How products are sold and marketed to customers.

People Skills

Soft skills required to work with business folks and collaborate for success.


Learning Outcomes

Key benefits you will derive with in 4 hours

Product Owner Thinking

Take technology decisions using your new found product thinking and business acumen.

Break Department Silos

You will work more closely with business teams and think of them as part of one big team.

Deliver Software Faster

Get more clarity about what and why of product requirements and hence faster delivery.

Reduce Dev Cost

Reduce waste of all kinds (Time, Resource, Rework etc.). Save Cost.

After 4 hours of intense learning, you will be able to

  • Understand your target users (or Customers)
  • Understand the Why behind any new feature development
  • Appreciate the challenges and work done by various business teams
  • Visualize and measure the impact of your work
  • Plan and prioritize the product roadmap easily with various departments
  • Collaborate better with product and design team on every requirement
  • Communicate with business teams on various things like Technology debt, cost, impact and risks
  • Improve the product development lifecycle process with in your company
  • Reduce waste by becoming more lean and agile technologist
  • Ask the right questions that helps everyone think and collaborate better
  • Gain the respect of product and other business teams
  • Impress your bosses and put yourself on fast growth track

You can no longer rely solely on your technology expertise, but you also must have a keen understanding of the strategic impact of technology decisions on the business.

Attend Workshop

4 hour career defining workshop for software professionals

Who can attend the program?

Any body from 0 to 20+ years of experience

Software/IT Developers

People who have just started their IT career or spent couple of years in software domain.

Mid/Senior Managers

People with multiple years of software experience including team management.

Architects & Dev Ops

Software architects and Dev Ops professionals working on cutting edge technology

QA Professionals

People in the quality and testing domain with varied experience (Manual or Automation).

What do you get?

Crisp Knowledge
Simple yet effective content packed with examples and real world knowledge.
Actionable Insights
Forget theory. Apply what you learn to your business or job. Create world class products.
Learning Material
You will get cheat sheets, notes, templates which can be readily used across any project.
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Know your instructor

Lokesh is a product and technology management consultant with 19+ years of experience building large scale consumer and business applications.

He has worked with some of the top internet businesses like iXiGO, Brevo (previously Sendinblue), Birdeye, Airmeet, Knowlarity, Keka HR, 99acres, Naukri.com, Awfis, CarDekho in leadership positions.

He is the founder of an Ed-Tech platform ProductHood School that helps professionals upskill themselves on the latest product and business skills. He also runs a product and technology management consulting practice and works with corporates and startups to help them with their product and growth challenges.

Lokesh is an IIT Delhi Alumni (2005 Batch) and did his MBA from Sunstone Business School.

Know more about Lokesh

Lokesh Gupta

Transform the Way You Deliver Software Products

Ready To Join?

Majority of our students covered the cost of our program via their learning & development/training budgets. If you'd like to expense our program, we would be happy to work with you and your manager. We've also designed this template to help you communicate the key outcomes of our program with your manager.

Attend Workshop

4 hour career defining workshop for software professionals

Join upcoming Workshops

Business Acumen for Software Professionals

Cost
$99
Upcoming Workshop
September 21st 2024
9 AM - 1 PM PST (Saturday)
$99
October 5th 2024
9 AM - 1 PM PST (Saturday)

FAQ

Most frequent questions and answers

Who should apply?

People from Technology, Engineering or QA background and across all levels can participate in the program. If you are willing to up your career game and looking to build your business skills then this is a right program for you.

How the workshop is conducted?

It is a 4 hour online workshop with 2 breaks of 5-10 mins. You will get the calendar invite with a Zoom link to join well in advance of the scheduled time.

is this an online workshop?

Yes this is an online workshop conducted via Zoom.

What is the workshop fee?

Workshop fee is $99 as a one time fee.

Majority of our students covered the cost of our program via their learning & development/training budgets. If you'd like to expense our program, we would be happy to work with you and your manager. We've also designed this template to help you communicate the key outcomes of our program with your manager.

Do you offer group discounts?

Please contact us to discuss group discounts. Send mail to hello@producthood.com

How do I know if the content is good?

We have put in lot of efforts in creating the content in order to make this workshop comprehensive and relevant for current market requirements.

Can you conduct this training for my team?

Yes,I do corporate trainings and would love to do it for your team. Please send a mail to hello@producthood.com

My query is not covered here.

Please send a mail to hello@producthood.com