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Mastering the Product Manager Job Search With Colin Murphy

This post is part of the So You Want To Be a Product Manager series. I have a few more interviews lined up for what's turned into an ad hoc series on how to find a product manager job. After that, I'll shift focus back to

Oded Korczyn: On Becoming a Product Manager

This post is part of the So You Want To Be a Product Manager series. Over the past two weeks, I've talked about how you don't need experience to become a product manager and how you can gain experience right now. I regularly hear from folks

Gain Product Management Experience By Starting Right Now

This post is part of the So You Want To Be a Product Manager series. Last week, I wrote about how you don't need specific experience to become a product manager. Too many people get caught up in the chicken and the egg problem of how can I

You Don't Need Experience To Become a Product Manager

This post is part of the So You Want To Be a Product Manager series. What does it take to get into product management? What's the requisite experience? Are certificates worthwhile? Do you need an MBA? As a hiring manager, I've hired half a dozen product

Brainstorming: More Questions Than Answers

There's been a lot of confusion around brainstorming these days. First, there was the New Yorker article by Jonah Lehrer claiming that brainstorming doesn't work. Scott Berkun wrote a rebuttal arguing Lehrer's logic was flawed. Twitter exploded with comments. I'm going to

4 Questions I Always Ask When Interviewing Product Managers

This post is part of the So You Want To Be a Product Manager series. As part of my consulting practice, I often help companies recruit product managers and interaction designers. As a result, I do a lot of interviewing. I've talked with a lot of folks who

Social Contagion: How I Went From No Mobile Gaming to Addicted in 36 Hours

I spent this past weekend with my siblings. Four of the five of us, plus my brother-in-law, spent a good amount of the weekend playing Words with Friends, Draw Something, and Scramble with each other. Now up until this point, I had mostly avoided mobile games. If I've