How to upskill as a PM?
I am currently a PM with experience of 5+ in product management and in the past I also worked as a software developer for 3 years. I am a pass out from top engg and MBA colleges, however I have been thinking a lot about upskilling myself. When I was a software developer, I had tons of resources - courses, leetcode to practice etc. however I feel as PM there is too much generic content out there. Even the top PM leaders on linkedin give subjective, generic gyaan. I am not saying what they post is wrong, since the job as a whole is very subjective. I also keep hearing these leaders talk about strategy which again is very vague. At best, the posts on Medium are very informative about some of the best products out there. However, since I am an engineer I keep thinking my upskilling in terms of quantitative improvement - leetcode problems solved etc. Here in PM, there is no way to even know what I am reading, doing is even upskilling me. Does anyone else feel this way?
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Unpopular opinion: start interviewing and you will understand what you are missing. Then there are literature and video for each skill.
Thanks all for the responses, really appreciate it.
Some of the solutions listed -
- Working with Senior leaders - while this is really helpful, but not scalable since you will be able to benefit via this approach only when you are able to collaborate with them on some of the problem statement plus their time is gold you can’t accept them to brainstorm on trivial stuff
- Building on own - have done a lot of 0-1, and 1-10 products in orgs the real pming comes when users are interacting with you product (at scale will be gold), although will try something
- Interviewing - Again not scalable, plus the interviewers out there these days - young ones are usually set in their minds, the more seasoned ones don’t want to go into too much detail. Anyway, will try this as well
No real way other than doing it yourself and working with Sr. PMs. Bcoz that knowledge is guarded.
Hey,
I come from a commerce background,but recently I have done a course in Product manager from Next Leap.
I Would really appreciate it if you could give me a few advice on how to Kickstart the career in Product Manager.