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How to Successfully Transition from Consulting to PM

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

If you have advised any of these people with tasks like product growth, pricing strategy, or market sizing, be sure to note that on your resume! Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles. Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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How to Successfully Transition from Consulting to PM

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

If you have advised any of these people with tasks like product growth, pricing strategy, or market sizing, be sure to note that on your resume! Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles. Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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These 5 Coding Bootcamps Are Worth Considering

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Yes Walk Away With: A strong portfolio, lab testing and client-facing experience, and career services including weekly 1:1 career coaching sessions, mock interviews, and employer introductions. Focus Areas: Software Engineering, Data science, UX/UI Design and Cybersecurity. Best For: Scholarship seekers. Still not convinced?

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Scrum Development Team Anti-Patterns

The Product Coalition

Finally, the term Development Team seems to limit the role to technical people, for example, software engineers. Ignoring technical debt: The Development Team is not demanding adequate capacity to tackle technical debt and bugs during the Sprint. Read more on technical debt and Scrum.) Team leads?

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13 Best Product Management Books to Read in 2021 – Product Manager Must-Reads

Userpilot

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick is the ultimate guide to talking to customers as a product manager and includes sample scripts and questions you can directly use in your customer interviews.

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On skepticism and storytelling: How PMs can become more data-informed

Mixpanel

Rohit Gossain: I started off my career in 2010 as a technical analyst working with a product manager. At the time, product analytics software didn’t really exist—we were very much relying on Google Analytics. At the time, we were conducting A/B tests, but the metrics were not behavioral, which presented an issue.

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Upsides to unshipping: The art of removing features and products

Mixpanel

Prior to this position, Neil was VP of Engineering, after working as a Software Engineer and leading Infrastructure Engineering. He was the Growth Advisor in Residence at Greylock Partners, Growth Lead at Pinterest, and first marketer at Grubhub. He advised companies like Tinder, Hipcamp, Reddit, Canva, and Pocket.