I’m also a few months into a PM role and trying to figure out the best ways to level up outside of work. Have you found any specific resources or courses that have been helpful so far? Also curious about the portfolio piece, how do PMs even build one?

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Depends on your background. Becoming more technical helps. Take CS50x and learn basics of computer science.

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I recommend one of two paths:
1. Take courses from Pragmatic Institute that will give you a good foundation for how to be a classically trained product manager.
2. Get a copy of Steven Haines's book The Product Manager's Desk Reference Guide.

I am recently retired, but I took the path of a classical product manager and not a technical product manager. I got further being a classical, i.e., strategic product manager because the executive team would rather interact with a 'business leader' than with another pseudo-technologist. Just my two cents based on forty years of tech work.

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