![]() ![]() I also decided in the beginning of 2016 to get a Scrum certification (CSM) as I didn’t quite understand what it was but it seemed like a good place to start! Looking back I feel like that initial dive into Scrum was probably a little pre-mature though it was certainly incredibly useful to get me into the right environment, get me thinking more about software development and to most importantly, to get me started on my learning path.Īs I ventured through the vast wealth of information on Product Management I started to put together a sort of timeline for completing a few courses and then figured I would be an expert and could get straight into the job market. I casually read articles on Medium, watched YouTube talks from product conferences and started to dabble in using Sketch to design simple products that solved problems in my life. Over the course of about 10 months I spent time in the evenings and weekends covering the topics represented by this diagram as they relate to web and mobile products in an unfocused way. There was a point during this hardware project that I discovered my intense interest for product management outside of what I was working on. Product Manager Venn Diagram © 2011 Martin Eriksson. I enjoy this Venn diagram from Martin Eriksson to describe a PM. The purpose of the tool was to create a 3D model of objects below the sea either for engineering (building something new), reverse engineering (fixing something by means of creating an exact replacement) or diagnostics (in the case of a dent in a pipeline for example).įrom this experience I gained the understanding that Product Management is the intersection of Technology, User Experience and Business and as the PM it was my responsibility to work within each of these areas to deliver a quality product to our customers. As a small amount of background to frame the conversation the tool I worked on as a PM was a Video Laser Scanning system that was deployed by ROV (mentioned above). ![]() So I suppose to correctly label this it’s 0 tech experience to PM. In my previous position I was PM for a hardware product although at the time I didn’t really know it was Product Management and it also wasn’t involving a web or mobile based product. To say I’m going from 0 to PM isn’t entirely true. How I sometimes felt surrounded by Engineers :-) From 0 to PM Enough of the background, let’s get stuck in. My hope is that this will prove useful to others. So what will you get from reading this? My account of the steps I have taken and will take to cover information sufficient to land me a Product Management position (as a Liberal Arts Major in Philosophy and Masters of Subsea Engineering). Initially this process didn’t start out with a hard timeline and the events aren’t exactly linear. Over the past year I made a conscious decision to chase my curiosities and develop a skill set that could land me a career in tech. It took a while to focus on what exactly I was interested in but I eventually discovered Product Management. I knew that some day my future would hold some sort of career in digital products. ![]() ![]() Throughout my time at this startup I became increasingly interested in optimization and design and began to branch out in my spare time into graphic design and specifically interface design. I’ll talk a little more about my role there below (working to introduce a new piece of hardware). This work led me to an interesting startup creating 3D models from photos and video (also known as photogrammetry). Throughout my time I was always interested in how to optimize our processes, make our workflows digital and how to design solutions (physical and digital) to our day to day and not so day to day work. Problems you could only encounter 10–15,000 feet under water. We faced many incredibly interesting challenges and worked with some of the world’s smartest people to develop tools and methodologies to meet a number of very unique problems. ![]()
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