Need career guidance.
I am a BA with 14+ years experience. I started my career as developer. So I have technical background as well. Domain exp in Financial services.
Now I am thinking of upskilling to sustain in IT for next 8-10 years atleast.
I see three paths right now
1. Project Management
2. Product Manager - Need to know how to upskill. I don't have any knowledge about data driven result or analytics. 3. Scrum master - have PSM certificate but not much real time exp. What should I do

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Project and Scrum master you have certification as a validation of your skills. I would say if you are comfortable in project management then go for it as you have technical knowledge and can support and understand team dynamics.
Product management is a attractive role and would be easy for business analyst to move to but you must have an understanding of lot of other functions and understand how you want to build your product roadmap and strategy interact with customer sales marketing etc. As there is no proper learning path or certification it's difficult to move in this role unless you are gettythe opportunity in your current organization. Also you have to compete with folks from diverse backgrounds with MBA (if you are not)
If you are good in technology then you can look for organisation where they have technical product manager role.

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