Helping PMs make the most of their careers is our raison d'être at career.pm (please excuse the French -- just trying to class this post up a bit). However, to be as effective as possible, you need to …
PM Training Isn’t Enough
After years of thinking deeply about professional development for PMs and training hundreds of product managers in a traditional classroom setting, the realization that offering training by itself as …
Breaking In: Justin Woods
"Breaking In" is a series of informal interviews exploring how people transitioned into product management. In this installment, Justin Woods tells us about transitioning to PM from an application …
Breaking In: Rob Fontenot
"Breaking In" is a series of informal interviews exploring how people transitioned into product management. In this installment, Rob Fontenot tells us about transitioning to PM from a sales-related …
Ruthlessly Manage Your Time or Fail
I regularly ask students in my live training what they consider their most important competency as product managers. In my book, there's no question as to the right answer: time management. We hear a …
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Discovering New Products
Product discovery is a hot topic in product management circles these days. In this video, we introduce the topic and present a simplified process or "practice" for doing it. Our approach provides …
Walking is Working
Like most hard-working product management types, it can be difficult for me to balance my workload with my personal needs, especially during business hours. I've lost count of the number of days I've …
Building the Perfect PM
We at career.pm are obsessed with helping product managers develop themselves professionally. This obsession led us to an obvious question: How do you ‘construct’ a great product manager? As we coach …
Agile and Scrum Are Not the Same Thing (Dammit!)
In doing research for a career.pm Learning Path on Agile, I was looking for articles that concisely articulate the difference between Agile and frameworks like Scrum that are based on it. I …
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An update on our Pilot program
It's been a while since you’ve heard from us. Suffice it to say, we’ve been super busy with the career.pm pilot program. In this post, I’d like to give you an update on the pilot, including key …