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What Skills Does a Product Manager Need?

BrainStation Product Management

BrainStation offers Online Live Certificate Courses in data, design, development, marketing, and product management. Speak to a Learning Advisor. Self-styled ‘visionary’ Product Managers are dangerous – which is why I advise against hiring PM candidates who fire off (Steve Jobs) quotes during job interviews.

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What Skills Does a Product Manager Need?

BrainStation Product Management

Self-styled ‘visionary’ Product Managers are dangerous – which is why I advise against hiring PM candidates who fire off (Steve Jobs) quotes during job interviews. Technical Skills for Product Management. A question that comes up often among would-be Product Managers is: “how technical do I have to be?”.

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These 5 Coding Bootcamps Are Worth Considering

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Software development is one of the few highly skilled occupations that doesn’t require any professional certification. Yes Walk Away With: In-depth knowledge of JavaScript as well as agile methodology general development problem-solving. Beginners are advised to take Hack Reactors pre-bootcamp prep courses before applying.

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How to Hire a Great Product Manager

BrainStation Product Management

BrainStation offers Online Live Certificate Courses in data, design, development, marketing, and product management. Speak to a Learning Advisor. Perhaps you need someone with an uncanny design eye, or razor-sharp technical skills, or deep experience in analytics? Do Some Soul-Searching.

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How to Hire a Great Product Manager

BrainStation Product Management

“Product Management is fundamentally a white space role, so the skills you need will depend on what skills you already have and what your company does,” advised Jackie Bavaro, Head of Product Management at Asana. Perhaps you need someone with an uncanny design eye, or razor-sharp technical skills, or deep experience in analytics?

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Product Managing the Cloud with Hemanth Kempanna

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

While there are lots of content out there advising on this subject, I would just like to call out one thing which I believe has helped me time and again: having empathy towards my interviewer. While some encourage you to fake it till you make it, I would advise against it during the interview process. During the interview.

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71 Scrum Product Owner Interview Questions (2)

The Product Coalition

You can sign up here for our weekly ‘Food of Agile Thought newsletter’ and join 29k other subscribers. ?? Join us on February 3, 2021: Hands-on Agile #29: Scrum Guide 2020?—?Reloaded. These should allow an interviewer to deep dive into candidates’ understanding of Scrum and their agile mindset. probably more valuable?—?product