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Kickoff from Problem to Backlog

A 15-minute, text-led course for exposing goal disagreement, grounding one user problem and seeding a deliberately incomplete Product Backlog.

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Course Content

1 Units 3 Lessons

This micro-course teaches recognition of a bounded kickoff procedure. Its checks do not establish facilitation, product-management or user-research competence. Apply it only with inclusive participation and evidence appropriate to the decision.

Learning route and study commitment

Start with the first lesson and carry its decision record through the next two. Each lesson explains a decision, gives a fictional worked example, asks you to try a private transfer task, and supplies a review guide and an ungraded recognition check. No prior course, job, video, paid tool or AI account is required. Use paper or private synthetic notes.

Allow about 15 active minutes for the three CORE lessons, including their practice and checks. This is a provisional study estimate, not measured learner time; workplace application and discussion take additional elapsed time. The public answer guides support learning and retries. Completion records participation, not demonstrated competence, and no certificate or accreditation is offered.

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