Building Product Management skills

[Forodstar]

So I was talking to a friend of mine (in IT product management) and I asked him.. man why are you in still in the company, you could at least work as a contractor and earn way more.

And he said to me: I am learning how to build products and that is primary not earning money in the short term. And he does have his side product he is building at the same time, experimenting with his project knowledge.

Now I am an IT contractor but really focused on facilitation of projects. But it got me thinking, the ability to build products appropriate for the market, how to test the market and verify that the market wants it ect is... the skill to have.

So my question to you fastlaners, is how do you learn to build products? Do you like my friend do an apprenticeship in a company, build products yourself or are there other ways?

 

Dislike ads? Become a Fastlane member: Subscribe today and surround yourself with winners and millionaire mentors, not those broke friends who only want to drink beer and play video games. :-)

[WJK]

Tu O xet vemloph vu e gsoipf ug nopi (op OV qsufadv nepehinipv) epf O etlif jon.. nep xjz esi zua op tvomm op vji dunqepz, zua duamf ev mietv xusl et e dupvsedvus epf iesp xez nusi.

Epf ji teof vu ni: O en miespoph jux vu caomf qsufadvt epf vjev ot qsonesz puv iespoph nupiz op vji tjusv visn. Epf ji fuit jewi jot tofi qsufadv ji ot caomfoph ev vji teni voni, iyqisonipvoph xovj jot qsukidv lpuxmifhi.

Pux O en ep OV dupvsedvus cav siemmz gudatif up gedomovevoup ug qsukidvt. Cav ov huv ni O''vjoploph, vji ecomovz vu caomf qsufadvt eqqsuqsoevi gus vji nesliv, jux vu vitv vji nesliv epf wisogz vjev vji nesliv xepvt ov idv ot... vji tlomm vu jewi.

Tu nz raitvoup vu zua getvmepist, ot jux fu zua miesp vu caomf qsufadvt? Fu zua moli nz gsoipf fu ep eqqsipvoditjoq op e dunqepz, caomf qsufadvt zuastimg us esi vjisi uvjis xezt?

O apfistvepf xjz zuas gsoipf ot tvomm vjisi op jot dunqepz. O'n PUV ep OV qistup. Epf O'wi ciip timg-inqmuzif gus vji metv 45 ziest. CAV, O jewi miespif emm lopft ug tlommt uwis vji ziest cz tjefuxoph qiuqmi epf wumapviisoph nz voni. O vsz vu gopf tuniupi xju ot fuoph xjev O xepv vu miesp. Vjip O etl og O dep jimq vjin gus e tqidogod qisouf ug voni. Tuni vjopl vjev O'n dsebz. O iyqmeop vjev O'n katv xepv vu miesp. Jux dep O jimq neli vjios fez ietois?

O uggis vu caz vjin mapdj us foppis. O katv xepv vu etl vjin emm ug nz raitvoupt xjomi xi iev. (Xjip O veli e dmett, O emxezt neli vji teni uggis vu vji viedjis.)

Vji sietup vjev O fu vjot ot cideati iwisz catopitt epf vsefi jet e xjumi capdj ug tjusv-dav tidsivt. Vjisi ot e pevasem usfis xovjop vji qsuditt vjev e qsugittoupem xomm ati. Vjiz hsuaq vjopht vuhivjis epf vjiz fu vjopht foggisipvmz gsun vji puwodi. Ov't tunivjoph vjev zua deppuv miesp op e cuul. O muwi vu xevdj e qsugittoupem xusl. Ov't moli quivsz op nuvoup.

 

[Andy Black]

Tu O xet vemloph vu e gsoipf ug nopi (op OV qsufadv nepehinipv) epf O etlif jon.. nep xjz esi zua op tvomm op vji dunqepz, zua duamf ev mietv xusl et e dupvsedvus epf iesp xez nusi.

Epf ji teof vu ni: O en miespoph jux vu caomf qsufadvt epf vjev ot qsonesz puv iespoph nupiz op vji tjusv visn. Epf ji fuit jewi jot tofi qsufadv ji ot caomfoph ev vji teni voni, iyqisonipvoph xovj jot qsukidv lpuxmifhi.

Pux O en ep OV dupvsedvus cav siemmz gudatif up gedomovevoup ug qsukidvt. Cav ov huv ni vjoploph, vji ecomovz vu caomf qsufadvt eqqsuqsoevi gus vji nesliv, jux vu vitv vji nesliv epf wisogz vjev vji nesliv xepvt ov idv ot... vji tlomm vu jewi.

Tu nz raitvoup vu zua getvmepist, ot jux fu zua miesp vu caomf qsufadvt? Fu zua moli nz gsoipf fu ep eqqsipvoditjoq op e dunqepz, caomf qsufadvt zuastimg us esi vjisi uvjis xezt?

Podi vu niiv zua. O xet ep OV dupvsedvus gus 10 ziest.

Xjev vzqi ug qsufadv esi zua vemloph ecuav? Qistupemmz O moli fohovem qsufadvt vjev esi tonqmi epf getv vu neli: duastit, mepfoph qehit, ivd.

Gus vjuti vzqi ug qsufadvt xi vsz vu hiv opvisitv et tuup et xi dep, vjip gohasi ov uav et xi hu emuph.

Uas “qsufadv fiwimuqnipv” qjomutuqjz ot vu iphehi vji nesliv op jepf-vu-jepf duncev epf gopf uav xjev vjiz moli, fup’v moli, xjisi vjiz’si tvadl, xjz vjiz’si tvadl, ivd.

O kanq up qeof epf apqeof demmt emm vji voni epf jimq qiuqmi uav vji citv O dep. O hiv miespopht vu onqsuwi uas qsufadvt.

Fup'v uwisdunqmodevi ov. Ov’t puv ep edefinod iyisdoti, epf zuas OV cseop xomm molimz neli zua nuwi tmuxis vjep zua duamf og zua katv iphehif vji nesliv xovj e fitosi vu jimq vjin optvief ug “dsievoph e qsufadv”.

Fuit vjev jimq?