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Building Products at Global Scale
  • Level Foundation
  • Duration 5 hours
  • Course by Advancing Women in Tech
  • Offered by

About

Sponsored by AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS). In the previous course, Inspiring Peak Performance on Technical Teams, you learned about how to lead each individual team member to achieve a new personal best every day. Now, learn the skills that transcend the boundaries of your team and enable top tech companies to deliver the most popular and viral products and applications used by billions of people billions of times per day. GORDON YU, Technical Program Manager (TPM) at AWS Data Protection presents skills necessary to manage global programs, drive major product launches, and design system architectures. NANCY WANG, Director of Engineering and General Manager of AWS Data Protection Services and Founder, Advancing Women in Tech (AWIT) shares the next steps of a line manager's career into a manager of managers, and then to a director of engineering and general manager (GM). Upon course completion, you will understand what world-class software engineering organizations expect of their cross-functional managers and leaders, including: * The common tasks of the TECHNICAL PROGRAM MANAGER (TPM) and the tools they use to drive CROSS-TEAM COLLABORATION * How to design a MODERN SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE and answer system design interview questions related to MICROSERVICES, COMPONENTS, and TRADEOFFS * How to move from from a line manage to a MANAGER OF MANAGERS, and then to a DIRECTOR OF ENGINEEERING and GENERAL MANAGER (GM)

Modules

Course intro

    • 1 Videos
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1 Videos

  • Course intro

TPM basics

    • 4 Videos
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4 Videos

  • Defining the TPM
  • When do you need a TPM?
  • 3 common TPM responsibilities (part 1)
  • 3 common TPM responsibilities (part 2)

Running a TPM meeting and writing your report

    • 4 Videos
    • 1 Discussion
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1 Discussions

  • Writing and thinking like a TPM

4 Videos

  • Inviting the right attendees
  • Project status
  • Milestone status
  • After the meeting

TPM Campaigns

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • TPM skills

1 Videos

  • Campaigns

1 Readings

  • Optional: Sample TPM report

Intro to system design

    • 2 Videos
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2 Videos

  • Intro to system design interviews
  • Define the customer requirements

Drawing an architecture diagram

    • 5 Videos
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5 Videos

  • Intro to architecture diagramming (excerpt from AWIT's Real-World Cloud PM Specialization)
  • Implementing a modern architecture
  • Microservices, components, and tradeoffs
  • Common interviewer questions
  • Common interviewer questions pt. 2

API design

    • 2 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • System design

2 Videos

  • Designing API actions, data types, and sequence diagrams
  • Next steps

1 Readings

  • Optional: Resources from this lesson

Managing managers

    • 1 Videos
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1 Videos

  • Becoming a manager of managers

Becoming a director

    • 1 Videos
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1 Videos

  • Becoming a director of engineering

Directing more than just engineering

    • 2 Videos
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Advancing your career

2 Videos

  • Becoming a general manager
  • Your future career

Optional interview with an engineering leader

    • 1 Videos
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1 Videos

  • Optional: Interview with Ann Funai, Limited Partner, Operator Collective, former SVP of Engineering at Under Armour, former CTO of MyFitnessPal

Auto Summary

"Building Products at Global Scale" is an IT & Computer Science course sponsored by AWS, aimed at teaching skills for managing global tech programs and driving major product launches. Instructors Gordon Yu and Nancy Wang share insights on system architecture, cross-team collaboration, and career progression from line manager to director. This 300-hour foundation-level course, available via Coursera's Starter subscription, is ideal for aspiring tech leaders looking to scale their impact.

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Gordon Yu

Nancy Wang
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Nancy Wang