Main Takeaways: -Breaking into PM role and making your non-PM experience work to your advantage -Asking the right questions is the key -The role is what you make of it - a challenge and an opportunity

1. Make Your Experience Your PM Forte
by Microsoft Product Leader
www.productschool.com

2. CERTIFICATES
Your Product Management Certificate Path
Product Leadership
Certificate™
Full Stack Product
Management Certificate™
Product Management
Certificate™
20 HOURS
40 HOURS
40 HOURS

3. Corporate
Training
Level up your team’s Product
Management skills

4. Free Product Management Resources
BOOKS
EVENTS
JOB PORTAL
COMMUNITIES
bit.ly/product_resources
COURSES

5. Make your experience your PM forte
PRODUCT SCHOOL

6. PRANOY CHAUDHURI

7. BACKGROUND
Product
managemen
t
MBA
Electrical
engineering
Consulting
Fraud Data
Science
Financial
services
Investment
banking

8. AGENDA
◼ Breaking into product management
◼ Getting started: I’m here, what now?
◼ Choose your own adventure

9. Breaking into product
management

10. Is product management for me [needs]?
What, Why
How
Ownership
Contributor
Customer value
Cool(ness)

11. Carving your own path – my highlights
Electrical engineering
Algorithms
Programming
Consulting
Managing clients
Business impact
Fraud risk management
Risk modeling
MBA
New Products Lab
Corporate finance
Behavioral economics
Banking
Telecom strategy
Mergers & Acquisitions

12. Carving your own path – the PM Venn
Business Tech
UX

13. Carving your own path - SIGNALS
Electrical engineering
Algorithms
Programming
Consulting
Managing clients
Business impact
Fraud risk management
Risk modeling
MBA
New Products Lab
Corporate finance
Behavioral economics
Banking
Telecom strategy
Mergers & Acquisitions
Business
Technology
User experience
The connections are not OBVIOUS – You are the PM!

14. Getting started: I’m here,
what now?

15. “Do I belong
here?”

16. “I could solve
everything…”
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“I could solve
everything…”
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18. “…Or I could
listen and bring
clarity”
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19. Choose your own adventure

20. The role is what you make it
Be curious
Hackathons, courses
Seek mentorship
Fresh perspective
Take time to reflect
What am I good at?

21. THANK YOU

22. www.productschool.com
Part-time Product Management Training Courses
and
Corporate Training