Product Manager Training: best practices, how to & tech tips
Oct 27, 2022
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If you're looking to become a better Product Manager or improve your technical skills, this is the perfect place to get started. The following articles offer tips and technical concept breakdowns that can boost your overall technical confidence and ability to work with engineering teams and guide product roadmaps.
As a PM, do you need to be technical?
Why it's important to become more technical as a PM.
How to: become more technical
Most PMs make this critical mistake when trying to become more technical.
How to: ace PM technical interviews
Boost your chances of success in the PM technical interview by studying these interview questions.
How to: gain more influence with your engineering team
How to work better with engineers as a Product Manager.
Best practices in: Writing User Stories
Why Product Managers are approaching users stories wrong (and what to do instead).
Best practices in: writing Business Requirement Documents
3 Tips for writing business requirements for your engineering team.
Best practices in: data visualization
Best practices in: data logging
An introduction to logging for product managers.
Top list: 7 SaaS tools PMs need to learn
Positive feedback is feedback too!
We often think of feedback as “critical feedback”, but positive feedback is just as important! Team cohesive and effective teamwork ultimately comes from a place of positivity and a sense of forward/upward momentum. It’s difficult to have these when just focusing on critical feedback. You want to know what you’re doing right along with ways you can improve. So as much as possible, ask for positive feedback like “What did you like about [x] that you’d like to see me continue doing?” and “What was your favorite part about [x]?”
If you want to level up your technical skills and your ability to communicate and collaborate with engineers, enroll in the Skiplevel program. The Skiplevel program is a comprehensive, on-demand course + community that helps you become more technical without learning how to code.
Become more technical without learning to code with the Skiplevel program.
The Skiplevel program is specially designed for the non-engineering professional to give you the strong technical foundation you need to feel more confident in your technical abilities in your day-to-day role and during interviews.
Fullstack software engineer and tech mentor to product managers. Follow Irene on Medium!