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Ask HN: Transition from web developer to Product Manager
3 points by throwawaytemp88 on Nov 15, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
I have been working as a full stack web developer for around 7 years and am interested in transitioning to a technical product manager. Is there a specific path I need to take or how should I go about looking for opportunities outside my current company. I cannot do it at my current company as I don't think they are open enough for that transition. I'm not interested in getting an MBA right now. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I'm pretty tech savvy and have a lot of knowledge about the current happenings and pretty up to date on startups and other things tech.



I'd recommend reading the PM canon, its useful even if you just want to work better with them. Don't know the canon, find out. What books/podcasts do all the PM's you know own and listen to? You could get the cert (PMBOK). Certs can mean the difference between someone taking a chance on you or not. Ask the PM's/BA's in your company for advice (you can word it as your friend/kid is interested). Another useful thing is to look at job ad's, what are they asking for, do you have those skills? Can you demonstrate them?




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