Becoming an IT Product Manager

If you are thinking about changing your career path or starting a new one in the field of product management, well, since you are here, you are halfway there. This article covers the intricacies of product management and courses to enroll for if you want to learn more about the field.

A Product Manager in an organization helps his/her employer identify a product — based on market needs — to align the company's business goals (financial, customer retention, competitive, scale-up, etc.) with the identified product. For a Product Manager to achieve this, he/she would need to develop products by identifying potential products; conducting market research; generating product requirements; determining specifications, production timetables, pricing, and time-integrated plans for product introduction; developing marketing strategies, etc.

There is a number of skills expected of a Product Manager. These shall be discussed in detail in the proceeding paragraphs. The skills in question comprise the mix of technical, business, finance, and people’s management skills. Although not too deep in all of these except in the area of product conceptualization, prototyping, communications, research, pricing, acceptability, scaling, etc.

These are requisite skills of a product management professional:

Every Product Manager is expected to initiate or collaborate in the execution of the following tasks:

The following are the possible product development team members and product development sponsor:

In order to facilitate seamless product management, the following software tools would be needed to manage the products:

Further reading would have to be done in order to have a comprehensive understanding of the activities and skills listed above.

According to Monster, the following are not an exhaustive list of the responsibilities required of a Product Manager but what is mostly obtainable in the industry. Although the Product Manager’s responsibilities are dependent on the structure of the organization hiring his/her service.

Below are the MOOC platforms offering IT-focused product management courses/certifications:

Visit the above sites and search for product management courses. Most of them offer free courses without the issuance of a certificate. Some of them offers financial aids to cater to the cost of these courses.

Thanks for reading. Watch out for my next article on scenario-based Product Management.

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