What certifications or training programs have you gone through that have helped you hone your PM skills? I'm looking more for something that gave you usable skills versus a credential that looks nice on a resume.

I recently started a position where I can get reimbursed for continuing education and am looking for programs that will improve my performance and was wondering what others found useful.

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I find the Reforge course was good but too many frameworks to remember. The problem with frameworks is that we get lazy and fail to think from a first principles perspective. As a product manager, please don't ever spend money on Agile or Scrum courses

1. To earn the respect of your peers and bosses, Prepare for Meta PM interviews....forget the behavioural part. Prepare for product sense and metrics. It will serve you well ..forever..

2. To earn the respect of programmers , learn the basics of software development - front end, back, database , throw in a load balancer....that's all there is to it..kidding but here's more tangible stuff. Learn SQL ( basics will take you far, bonus if you can join tables..even basic joins), API ..only conceptually though( no need to learn the details..bonus if you can use postman or the CLI). More bonus if you can see the requests , responses of APIs in the browser and on the mobile phone (yes, it is possible to see API traffic on mobile devices)

3. Learn how to draw out customer insight : learn how to interview, how to debrief, how to run surveys and of course. Get your hands on every data dashboard out there.

4. Strategy muscle:. Read as much as you can but know that product strategy is not just a list of features or even a roadmap. There's so much online about this. It's a bit of a rabbit hole but a worthwhile exercise.

Always be connecting dots. Wow...look at that , may be I should be in the coaching business ;) . Not exactly what you were looking for but just my take on how to build tangible skills as a PM

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Where do you recommend learning about software development please? Do you have any courses in mind?

Thanks

I took the general assembly course on product management. If you have even an inkling of knowledge, I wouldn’t recommend it at all. A lot of the people in the course were already PMs and really just wanted to know what other companies did as opposed to learning anything PM related

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I’ve done several PM courses and all of them say the same thing that you already know (Google, Harvard M, LinkedIn).

Best bet is to find an amazing PM in your company and spend time with them. Ask them their best practices (which will probably be the outline of all those courses you took), and pay attention to how they lead meetings and how they get things done.

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LinkedIn courses

Honestly, I've done a lot of research courses, sprints, etc...I think it's more about picking and choosing aspects of the role where you'd like to learn more vs trying to go for the whole thing

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