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Platform Product Management: Enabling the Low Code/No Code (LC/NC) Business Revolution

Platform Product Essentials

Learn the fundamentals of business solutions delivered with cutting edge low-code development platforms.

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What You Will Learn

Some history of software development, on premise application and hosted cloud solutions
Low-code vs no-code vs high-code (and what is mid-code?)
The importance and value of LCNC platforms
The foundation of platform management
The four pillars of platform management
Ensuring your are ready for success
Selecting a software vendor to ensure scalability
Different Pricing models for vendor support
How to structure your team
Defining a business process
How and when to get outside assistance

About This Course

Gartner Research predicts that by 2024, 65% of application development projects will rely on low-code no-code (LCNC) development. Successfully implement a platform to transform your business. Building business workflows, process automation and custom app development has never been easier with the modern landscape of technology tools. Learn how to deliver business solutions on some of the most cutting edge low-code development platforms, like Salesforce, Appian, Servicenow, Mendix and many others to revolutionize how business is done. Ensure your business, your team, and your vendors are set up for success utilizing these Low Code/No-Code platforms (LC/NC).

Delivering a platform solution for your business in a “clicks not code environment” seems easy. However the drag and drop interface of the technology isn’t the hard part. This is a course that will help you focus on the real difficulty in platform implementation, the structure of your business and its people. We will explore the benefits of low-code application development vs no-code development and how these tools are surpassing traditional development as the gold standard for custom applications. Our classes will showcase the low-code app development on the google platform and show you how to leverage LC/NC apis to leverage the functionality of tools like Zapier to connect your platform applications. All with little to no coding knowledge.

This fun and engaging course will take a foundational look at the necessary elements to successfully transform your business with the right platform. Starting with establishing a foundational understanding of LCNC tools and taking a look at the landscape of platforms in the market. Participants will get a taste of how citizen developers and professional developers can collaborate to build productive low-code applications. We will then introduce the four pillars model as a tool that will provide clarity for all of the critical elements that are involved in your implementation. We will also highlight some real world use cases where LC/NC applications have been built successfully and where application development has failed.

Historically, traditional implementation models utilize project management techniques to deliver solutions. Throw your PMBOK (project management body of knowledge) out the window. We are no longer running a project. Our platform is now a product and you are on the road to your digital transformation.

By the end of this course you will have a foundational understanding of how to successfully deliver a platform application to your business.

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At A Glance

Expert Instruction Build Skills
Self-Paced Progress at your own speed
5 Weeks 2-3 hours per week
Free or $249.00 For the full program experience Discounted to $224.10 when you purchase the full Platform Product Management: Enabling the Low Code/No Code (LC/NC) Business Revolution Professional Certificate Program.
10 Professional Development Units (PDUs) Earn PDUs toward your Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Mangement Professional (PMP) certification

Your Instructor

Jake Artz

Syllabus

Week 1

A brief history of software development. What is LC/NC and how did we get here?

Week 2

Lining up Your Business. Ensuring the foundational elements are in place for your platform to revolutionize your business and to meet your business needs and streamline delivery.

Week 3

Putting your team to work. How to get the most out of your functional team and development teams to make sure your platform has the support it needs to transform your business.

Week 4

Selecting the Right Tool: A primer of some LCNC platforms. How to navigate the landscape and pick the best tool for you. We will focus on low-code application platform enhancement models and their user interfaces.

Week 5

Getting the Support you need. How to select a System Integrator, put them to work and achieve the results you're looking for.

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