Success in the dynamic and ever-changing sector of product management depends on the ability to grasp a wide range of abilities. Practitioners of p...
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Reaching all these skills for a newbie could be hard and spend several years to master some of them. However, I would like to know what could be the basics and the minimal knowledge for each of the skills to start working as a product manager.
In my case, I see.very difficult to access this kind of position due to this, I mean, to demonstrate your abilities or, at least, some way of self evaluation to understand at which point you are or which skills you have to focus on to learn.
I agree Jaime. Talking about my own experience, I come from a strong project delivery background and lot of areas of my expertise like Stakeholder Management, Agile/Lean, Communication, Technical Knowhow already had an overlap with what PMs need. I did a SWOT analysis about 2 years ago (based on the skills listed in the excellent book by Gayle Laakmann McDowell) and identified the gaps in my own knowledge (e.g. Product Strategy, Pricing/GTM, Analytics were some lacking areas for me) and then made concrete effort to cover them (for e.g. I did a PG Certificate course in PM from a reputed institute and Product School). The PM roles have various flavors (e.g. Growth PM has different role than a conventional PM) so you can chose which one to go for, plan to fill the gaps and then approach the jobs with an updated resume and renewed confidence. HTH!