You have an advantage coming from an engineering background. PM is not rocket science. Talk to customers often, make sure there is a short feedback loop between customers/leads and product and sort things.
To get good at it though you need an understanding of everything that goes into a good product. So you need to have basic marketing, sales, analytics experience in addition to engineering.
Do you have any recommendations for a software engineer to transition to product developer or product development manager ?
You have an advantage coming from an engineering background. PM is not rocket science. Talk to customers often, make sure there is a short feedback loop between customers/leads and product and sort things.
To get good at it though you need an understanding of everything that goes into a good product. So you need to have basic marketing, sales, analytics experience in addition to engineering.
Great! Thank you for your advice. I will have to work on the latter stuff. I appreciate your response.