Carnegie Mellon Offers New Master's Degree in Product Management

Re:Carnegie Mellon Offers New Master's Degree in Product Man... by bdickason on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @01:41AM (#14355927)

~12yr PM here - curious how you teach interactions with Eng, Design and other disciplines (at Facebook, we call this 'Leadership and Drive').

This has always been the toughest area for me to teach and I'm wondering if you can give some detail on how you approach this in your component that you mentioned (interactive workshops/personal mentoring).

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Re:Carnegie Mellon Offers New Master's Degree in Product Man... by cwilson on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @02:30AM (#14356115)

This is the part I'm the most confused about with this program. I'd love to be proven wrong, but I don't think this part of PM can be taught. The lessons learned from interacting with designers and engineers is something only experience can grant you, and a lot of that typically comes from being a designer or engineer yourself prior to getting into PM full-time.

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Re:Carnegie Mellon Offers New Master's Degree in Product Man... by dilemma on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @03:23AM (#14356309)

>I'd love to be proven wrong, but I don't think this part of PM can be taught.

Nothing in the entire world can be taught. It must be learnt.

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