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    Profitable Software Academy

    Transform your product organization and grow world-class product managers with our online academy. Know what good looks like.

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    Teach your product managers to live, breathe, and deliver profit.

    Inconsistent product management practices, low impact activities, and slow delivery impair the ability to generate profit.

    Traditional product management education has not yielded measurable results in the dimensions that matter: growth, time-to-market, innovation, and profit.  

    Designed for the enterprise, the Profitable Software Academy takes a radically different approach to product management education by focusing on profit, direct application of concepts while learning, and the blending of real and artificial intelligence.

    • Maximize Profit

      Profit is a team sport.
      Learn how to play.

      Product management requires the ability to navigate relationships within a complex network of stakeholders. We equip your team with the right mix of knowledge, frameworks, and business acumen to transform your revenue trickle into a profit stream.

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    • Increase Impact

      Increase impact with Horizon.

      Horizon is a Solution Profitability Management platform to connect inspiration to results.  Product managers gain access to a community of product management peers and experts, additional on-demand learning, and an AI-powered assistant to drive the fast acquisition of insights.

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    • Achieve Strategic Goals

      Integrate strategy with execution.

      To consistently hit the targets that matter, product managers create an inspirational vision, communicate how they plan to deliver the vision through market-driven roadmaps, and prioritize for the greatest economic impact.

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    • Attract & Retain Talent

      Upskill your product managers.

      We offer progressive levels of certification to support product managers at every stage of their career and confirm they have demonstrated the core competencies of their level before advancing to new responsibilities.

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    Profit is a team sport.
    Learn how to play.

    Product management requires the ability to navigate relationships within a complex network of stakeholders. We equip your team with the right mix of knowledge, frameworks, and business acumen to transform your revenue trickle into a profit stream.

    af-psa-maximize-profit

    Increase impact with Horizon.

    Horizon is a Solution Profitability Management platform to connect inspiration to results.  Product managers gain access to a community of product management peers and experts, additional on-demand learning, and an AI-powered assistant to drive the fast acquisition of insights.

    af-psa-increase-impact

    Integrate strategy with execution.

    To consistently hit the targets that matter, product managers create an inspirational vision, communicate how they plan to deliver the vision through market-driven roadmaps, and prioritize for the greatest economic impact.

    af-psa-strategic-goals

    Upskill your product managers.

    We offer progressive levels of certification to support product managers at every stage of their career and confirm they have demonstrated the core competencies of their level before advancing to new responsibilities.

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    Speed

    "Prior to PSA, we could only onboard a handful of new product managers each quarter. With the structure and flexibility that PSA offers us, we can easily onboard, retrain and grow hundreds of product managers each year."

    Real Change

    "In other programs, people might learn new concepts, but they do not apply the learning. With PSA, we have seen real behavioral change that moved the needle on innovation, time-to-market, customer satisfaction, and profit."

    Responsive

    "The Applied Frameworks product coaches always took time to provide thoughtful and detailed feedback that helped our colleagues grow. We are so happy to have made this investment!"

    • We Go Deeper

      This is not a two-day class.

      We offer bite-sized, immediately applicable ideas and frameworks that support product managers over their entire career.  This comprehensive program is consumable for busy, overbooked professionals.

      We combine self-paced content and live, instructor-led sessions to ensure participants are applying the concepts to build new solutions or discover innovations that will increase the profitability of existing solutions.

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    • Theory-Informed Practice

      Leave dry, academic theory (and debate) for the university.

      Our instructors are experienced product managers who have the practical experience to deliver results, with the understanding that practice is better when informed by the right theory. And when your team needs more help, our Horizon platform includes an AI-powered assistant to provide additional support.

       

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    • SAFe & Scrum Compatible

      We support whatever flavor of Agile you have adopted.

      PSA was developed and is sustained by published authors, thought leaders, and Agile software development experts who have brought numerous software-enabled solutions to market, built and sold software companies, and advised countless organizations from startups to the Fortune 100. 

      Notable contributors include SAFe Fellow Luke Hohmann and CSTs Carlton Nettleton and Jason Tanner. We have designed career flows that integrate with the SAFe® Implementation Roadmap, Scrum Alliance® Path to CSP® and Software Profit Streams™ curriculum.

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    • Accelerated Learning

      What is Accelerated Learning?

      Adults want to learn with their peers through short, self-paced modules that solve specific problems they’re facing, delivered with just enough theory to support successful practice.  

      Accelerated Learning is our cohort-based approach to adult education that maximizes retention and applicability. Each course is designed as a series of modules, culminating in a compelling learning-by-doing challenge that ensures the core concepts can be applied. Results are evaluated by instructors and discussed with their peers, cementing improvements.

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    This is not a two-day class.

    We offer bite-sized, immediately applicable ideas and frameworks that support product managers over their entire career.  This comprehensive program is consumable for busy, overbooked professionals.

    We combine self-paced content and live, instructor-led sessions to ensure participants are applying the concepts to build new solutions or discover innovations that will increase the profitability of existing solutions.

    af-psa-tab-we-go-deeper

    Leave dry, academic theory (and debate) for the university.

    Our instructors are experienced product managers who have the practical experience to deliver results, with the understanding that practice is better when informed by the right theory. And when your team needs more help, our Horizon platform includes an AI-powered assistant to provide additional support.

     

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    We support whatever flavor of Agile you have adopted.

    PSA was developed and is sustained by published authors, thought leaders, and Agile software development experts who have brought numerous software-enabled solutions to market, built and sold software companies, and advised countless organizations from startups to the Fortune 100. 

    Notable contributors include SAFe Fellow Luke Hohmann and CSTs Carlton Nettleton and Jason Tanner. We have designed career flows that integrate with the SAFe® Implementation Roadmap, Scrum Alliance® Path to CSP® and Software Profit Streams™ curriculum.

    af-psa-tab-agile

    What is Accelerated Learning?

    Adults want to learn with their peers through short, self-paced modules that solve specific problems they’re facing, delivered with just enough theory to support successful practice.  

    Accelerated Learning is our cohort-based approach to adult education that maximizes retention and applicability. Each course is designed as a series of modules, culminating in a compelling learning-by-doing challenge that ensures the core concepts can be applied. Results are evaluated by instructors and discussed with their peers, cementing improvements.

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    Ready to Transform Your Product Organization with the Profitable Software Academy?

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