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1. Move to a company in a BizOps or Product Marketing role that works closely with product and transition internally
2. Get an MBA from a top program that feeds into product roles - Amazon hires a good bit of MBA PMs from top programs
3. Go to a small startup and get experience shipping features with engineers. Then apply externally.
And spending on an MBA is not a good investment given the lack of demand and high price.
Show how you’ve delivered value vs. swooping in as a consultant with grand ideas that can’t be executed.
Let’s create our own product
1) Study Product Management as a discipline. I recommend "Product Management for Dummies" from The 280 Group. Excellent! Also anything you can find from Silicon Valley Product Group, such as the book "Inspired" by Marty Kagan. They may have training you can watch, but much is likely to be paid.
2) Consider Scrum.org courses such as the Professional Scrum Product Owner and take the certification test. That was helpful to me when reinventing myself.
3) With an understanding of the key PM
* functions (establish "what and why")
* Activities (product discovery with customers)
* Ways of thinking (focus on the problem, keep asking deeper "why" questions before solutioning),
* Working constructively with an Engineering team in an agile / sprint or Kanban way, where they are responsible for the "how".
Now you can re-cast your prior experience, accomplishments, and results through the lens of a Product Manager.
In other words, package and promote yourself as having "done aspects of the role" despite not having the formal title.
I did this by looking back at my Sales Engineering time, where I also acted as the unofficial Product Manager, discovered common customer needs, justified development and won resources, then worked with a Dev Team to build the needed products and features.
If you can find opportunities (even your own projects) to practice setting strategy, plan your work, even build a roadmap and see it through, that can help you get a sense of what it takes to deliver something like a product manager.