49-786 Special Topics: Developing Blockchain Products
6 units, Carnegie Mellon University
In this course, future product managers will explore blockchains transformative potential in their business domain. The course helps them understand blockchains distributed and decentralized nature, cryptographic security, consensus mechanisms, tokenization, and immutability. In doing so, students will learn to discover the relevance of these characteristics to their own business domain, and identify new capabilities made possible by blockchainenabled integrity and trust. To help them in the process, students will examine realworld applications in fields such as finance, supply chain, and healthcare. There will be some handson coding to implement blockchain concepts. Basic coding experience is sufficient and advanced coding skills are not needed. Some class sessions in this course may be offered using a Flipped Classroom model where lectures will be distributed as videos for viewing offline, and class sessions are dedicated to clarifications, content review, and course assignments. Priority registration given to III students. Note the R section of this course is specifically reserved for students in the PartTime Remote MSSM program.
Prerequisites: none listed
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