Carnegie Mellon Offers New Master's Degree in Product Management

Re:Carnegie Mellon Offers New Master's Degree in Product Man... by Heraclite on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @05:29AM (#14356850)

I'm a mobile senior software engineer at a startup.

How can I jump into product management? I founded a startup previously so I can say I have a strong product vision, and I can just feel intuitively that it's the position i'd be good at.

I'm reluctant to put 65k to make the move though. Anyone else made the move Senior software dev -> PM, if yes, how did you go about it?

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Re:Carnegie Mellon Offers New Master's Degree in Product Man... by stereobit on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @05:34AM (#14356868)

Does your startup have PMs and is looking for more? If so I would just ask if there is an option to switch. This is how I did it years ago. Shadowed one of the PMs for a bit and then slowly took over more responsibility.

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Re:Carnegie Mellon Offers New Master's Degree in Product Man... by ryandrake on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @11:05AM (#14359119)

That's exactly what I did. Watch PMs in action at your current company, take notes, get interested, and wait for a position to open up internally.

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