Career Development

Career Development

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Time to Grow

Now that you’ve established yourself in your company and know what you're doing, it's time to consider your next steps. There are multiple shapes, forms, and types of PMs, as well as various strategies for growth. Let’s take a deeper dive and try to find the path that fits your personality.

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Recommended resources:

• Essential and detailed reading on how your soft and hard skillsets (shape) define your career path
  What’s Your Shape? — ravi-mehta.com
• Nice explanation on different PM types based on their skills and backgrounds, might help you to find a right spot for you
  Product Competencies — nealcabage.com
• Good take on choosing specialization over being a generalist
  Reforge — reforge.com

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Product Management Grades and Matrix:

• Skills Matrix Edited and Adapted by Tami Reiss
  Skills Matrix (Spreadsheet)
• Another good material on grades and levels
  Product Manager Skills & Levels — medium.com

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Essential tools for Career Development

• Essential resource to understand PM landscape, salaries, job market status, grades in real companies and so on. Insider stuff.
  Levels.fyi — levels.fyi

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Later Stages, when you start thinking about management roles:

• Why more people should consider the Principal or Staff PM path
  You don’t have to be a manager — elenaverna.com
• How to grow from Senior PM to Staff / Leadership levels
  How to grow from Sr PM — linkedin.com

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List of Coaches and Mentors

• Great platform to find pro bono coaches and mentors
  ADPList — adplist.org
• Excellent coach for all levels, particularly beneficial if you're based in Europe
  Coach Profile — linkedin.com
• Highly experienced and impressive professional, currently serving as CPO of CoachHub while also offering coaching services
  Torben Mottes — linkedin.com
• Ally Owens: Microsoft PM and Founder of UpskillPM
  Ally Owens — linkedin.com
• Great coach for product leaders moving towards executive roles
  Executive Coach — linkedin.com

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