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4 Product Management Certifications that are Worth Your Time

ProductPlan

Continuing education plays a crucial role in long-term career success in just about any profession. Product management is certainly no exception. Product managers and leaders need to find ways to keep learning and growing in an ever-evolving product environment. We’ve scoured the certification landscape.

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Is Product Management Certification Right For You?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Product Managers are often called “Product CEOs” or “Mini GMs”, but they rarely have direct control over the inputs that lead to successful products. Also unsurprisingly, education hasn’t kept up with growth. There’s no set skillset or formal certification for PMs like there is for Project Management (PMP).

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Pathways to a Product Management Career

Product Management Unpacked

If you’re reading this, you’re exploring how to become a Product Manager and you’ve undoubtedly concluded that you will be in high demand. The role of Product Manager is in the top 10 hardest-to-fill jobs across the entire information technology sector, which makes them among the highest paid, too. You’re right.

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How to Become a Product Lead Without Experience

The Product HQ

If you want to become a product lead but have no experience, it is still not difficult to get there. You have to earn the necessary digital product management and lead skills and demonstrate them to potential employers with confidence. In general, they play a major lead role equivalent to a Director or VP of Product.

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Top 9 Product Management Courses

The Basics of Product Management

Comprehensive list of reviews for top 8 product management courses and certifications. And many want to try the product management field from fields like software engineering, QA testing, etc. Do you know how to effectively manage a product during challenging times? And that skill is communication.

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Product Manager Courses: Establishing the Basics

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A recent article from Product Coalition explains why landing your first job as a product manager will be a challenge. As the author points out, competition is fierce, and most hiring managers want to see several years of experience. One suggestion Product Coalition offers is to take product manager courses.

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Executive Director’s Perspective on how to become a product manager

Product Management Unpacked

In all of these roles I was a product manager or led product management. Today, I’m very proud to be the executive director of Carnegie Mellon University’s new Master’s in Product Management (MSPM) program. A product manager typically acts as the point person throughout a project’s life-cycle.