Product Breaks Live 7 March: Navigating Your Product Management Career
You're invited to our next live-streamed event exploring the product management career landscape!
Thursday 7th March | 17:15-18:00 GMT | Zoom
“Navigating Your Product Management Career - Specialisation vs. Generalisation”: Hosted by Erin Kyle, Lead Product Manager
The role of ‘product manager’ is extremely broad with many different definitions. Product people often find comfort in finding their ‘specialty’. Suddenly the PM becomes the Growth PM, or the AI PM or even the Financial Services PM.
In this free event, we invite our product community to contribute your perspectives on:
The kinds of specialisations that are increasing in the industry
In what situations is specialisation needed to achieve outcomes?
How to strike the right balance to support your career development and what core skills really matter
Read Product Breaks articles by Erin
Charting Your Career as a PM: Specialisation or Generalisation?
Read this article for joy and/or as preparation for our upcoming event! There’s a running joke that if someone asks a Product Manager what they do at a party they are lost for words. As they attempt to explain, they only bring the person that’s making polite conversation into further confusion; ‘Oh so you write code!’, ‘No…’, ‘ahhh you’re the CEO…’ ‘No…’…
Platform Product Breaks
Even in the best companies, where teams focus on user value streams, platform teams (and platform product managers!) are necessary. Platform teams are responsible for self-service APIs, tools, services, knowledge and support which are arranged as a compelling internal product. They are essential for a business unlocking awesome customer outcomes.
Is Start-up Life For You?
I recently finished watching Silicon Valley, a show that follows a bunch of devs in Palo Alto trying to build a company from someone’s house/incubator. In typical TV fashion, it was a fast moving roller coaster. The idea that start-ups are places that move fast and break things make them especially appealing to a lot of product people. Who doesn’t love …