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CPO Course: Chief Product Officer, Leadership, 430+ Tools
1,547 students
CPO Course: Chief Product Officer, Leadership, 430+ Tools
Lead product at C-level: strategy, portfolio roadmap, customer discovery, North Star metric, growth, team management
Last updated 10/2026
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What you'll learn
- Take away 430+ tools: question lists, templates, checklists, procedures and scoring matrices ready to copy from the presentations
- Build a product strategy with a vision statement template, a product strategy one-pager template and a strategy stress-test checklist
- Manage a portfolio with a BCG matrix, a product investment decision tree, a portfolio roadmap template and a product sunset checklist
- Study customers with a customer interview script, a job statement template, an experiment canvas and an MVP quality checklist
- Set up the product organization with a product team responsibility matrix, a product hiring scorecard and a Product Operating Model checklist
- Choose and track metrics with a North Star Metric Selector, a product dashboard template and an experiment validity checklist
- Plan growth and risk with a unit economics formula, a market entry playbook and a CPO crisis response procedure
- Hire, onboard, pay, motivate and retain people in product teams
- Run one-on-ones, coaching, feedback, OKR reviews and conflict talks
- Learn with Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy: 1,800,000+ enrollments, 170,000 students, about 200 books on Amazon
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Course content
10 sections • 58 lectures • 33h 12m total length
Requirements
- Experience in product management or in leading a team is helpful
- No C-level experience required
- A product or a product area you can use as your own case
- Nothing to buy for the course itself: the presentations are attached to the lectures
Description
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
438 tools for a chief product officer in one course: 275 ready-to-use question lists, templates, checklists, procedures and scoring matrices, 140 models and methods, and 23 services and apps shown on screen.
Open a lecture, take the tool, use it with your product and your team.
Why strong product managers struggle as CPOs
A good product manager is promoted to lead product. Yesterday the job was one product and one backlog. Today it is a portfolio, a budget, five teams and a seat at the table with the CEO. The skills that brought the promotion are not the ones the new role asks for. A CPO does not build the product. A CPO builds the system and the people who build it.
What changes after this course
You have a strategy on one page that links customer value and business goals. You decide which products to grow, fix or close by a procedure. Each team knows its metric. There is one definition of each number in the company. You hire, grow and keep product people with a system and not by luck.
What is inside: 438 tools, counted lecture by lecture
You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.
- 275 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
- 66 question lists and scripts: customer interview script, product interview questions, cross-product review questions, one-on-one planning questions
- 54 templates and sample documents: vision statement template, product strategy one-pager template, portfolio roadmap template, product dashboard template
- 52 checklists: strategy stress-test, product sunset, MVP quality, Product Operating Model
- 50 step-by-step procedures and workflows: product sunset procedure, CPO crisis response procedure, succession planning process, OKR review preparation process
- 37 scorecards, rubrics and matrices: BCG matrix, GE-McKinsey matrix, technical debt decision matrix, product hiring scorecard
- 8 formulas and metric sets: unit economics formula, LTV/CAC ratio, product portfolio metrics, engagement and retention metrics
- 8 other working tools: PMF diagnostic sheet, team effectiveness feedback exercise, negotiation style self-assessment
- 140 models and methods explained with examples: Jobs to Be Done, Double Diamond, product life cycle, growth loops, Spotify model, situational leadership model
- 23 services and apps shown on screen, from a quick look to a detailed demo: Jira, Trello, Asana, Miro, Notion, Slack, Zapier and others
- 57 downloadable resources: the lecture presentations
Where the tools are
- The CPO role and product leadership (8 sections, 125 tools). Role, product strategy, portfolio, customers and markets, product teams and operating model, metrics and analytics, growth, scaling and risk.
- People management skills for chief product officers (316 tools, 48 lectures). Most of the tools are here: hiring, onboarding, team development, leadership styles, pay and bonuses, motivation, retention, talent, goals, performance, one-on-one meetings, coaching, meetings, change, business models, conflict, negotiation and remote teams.
- Future of the CPO role (2 tools).
The product part gives the frame for decisions at C-level. The larger part gives the management tools a product manager usually never received.
Who is teaching
I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe.
I am not a product manager. I looked for CPOs and strong product people at Preply and at Wargaming, so I know what companies expect from this role: the ability to gather teams around a mission, deep understanding of the customer, strong communication, an analytical base and the skill to prioritize and to say no. A CPO scales the product through people and grows them. I also saw why one definition of a metric matters. At Wargaming the data warehouse team, the monetization team and the product team each calculated LTV in their own way. It was a constant dispute, and the numbers were very different. In the end they met, voted and approved one approach.
How to use the course
Watch the first eight sections in order: they cover the product side of the role. Then use the people management section as a reference and open the lecture you need: hiring, pay, one-on-one meetings, OKR, conflict. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.
What is included
- 58 lectures across 10 sections, 33 hours
- 57 downloadable resources: lecture presentations
- 438 tools across the lessons, ready to copy into your own work
- A 10-question practice test, a quiz and a role play
- Lifetime access to all materials
- Active instructor support in the Q&A section
- A Udemy Certificate of Completion
Where to start
Open the lecture on product strategy, take the product strategy one-pager template and fill it in for your product. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.
Who this course is for:
- Senior product managers and heads of product who are moving to a director or CPO role
- New chief product officers in their first year in the role
- Founders and CEOs who lead product themselves or are hiring a CPO
- Product directors who manage several product teams and a portfolio
- CTOs, COOs and other leaders who work with product every day