Skillsets to Shift Your Career to Product Management

Course details

Update (July 2014) See my new book - All Things Unforgiven, A Novel.

I am going to take you on an exciting learning tour of what makes technology business so interesting: product management. This discipline stands squarely at the intersection of decision-making skills, conflict-management skills and corporate strategy. This thinking-person's profession will require all your constructive organizational smart-skills to succeed in it. Being a passionate product manager will truly set you on a path to be a leader that everyone respects.

I created this course because I've seen others struggle to become good in product management, and I believe my experience - with the lessons learned over 19 years of Silicon Valley life in technology profession - can offer useful guidance to others looking to shift into product management.

This course is intended for beginners; no prior product management experience is needed. You don't even have to know technology, for that matter. Just bring your passion.

By the time you finish this course, you should be able to start from scratch and go on to define a product that is competitive, know how to work with sales to win the customer, and manage the product on a day-to-day basis; deliver it in a proper way to the customer, and focus on all the key activities that follow the product launch.

The course is organized primarily into 34 lectures (33 video lectures running over 6 hours.)

I expect to add further material as we go along and I get substantial feedback.

So, please join me as we get started.