If you want to go into the product manager industry

When I eat with friends, we often talk about the product manager's career. And as soon as we talk about the subject, we all listen attentively. Maybe some people do not understand what this career is doing, and then listen to listen to start to feel that the profession is quite fresh, and then slowly feel that they can do it, and finally began to ask if you want to transfer the product manager so what needs to do homework.

The Web designers, engineers, and interaction designers who deal directly with product managers have a longing vision for product managers, once I am a web design, I think I can experience that mood. At that time, the product manager gave me the task is still very young, but can grasp the entire site of the thread trend. And when there is a design task, he will talk to me, want to use my design to express a kind of information, and sometimes even the whole creative power of the campaign into my hands. However, sometimes I have a lot of task at hand, he will be in a panic to tell me that "there is a particularly urgent task, you do this first", at this time, I always want to shoot him for 5 minutes of expression. But since then, this career has become one of my most desirable occupations.

Later, I really did the product, and share with you the experience of career change.

What are the requirements for a product manager?

Let's start with attributes, the general company will not hire the product manager has a hard technical requirements, but if you have the code, data or design basis may give you points. For example, payment products only recruit technical background of product managers, such products are the most important security, on the basis of security to talk about experience.

In the tool, the product manager's necessary software is axure, pointing to this painting prototype. If you think about it, do you say it with gestures, or do you understand it directly to a specific prototype? Then there is the Office series, commonly used in Word, Excel, PPT, Outlook, do not underestimate these software, in some hands can play a very large role. The product Manager uses many is expresses the communication the tool, basically does not have any study difficulty, to you also will not be the Doorsill.

The core of the product manager is the soft ability, gives you limited resources, you can aim at the demand to make the competitive product ability. This ability is described as false, and it does not sound like a tangible thing to see. HR in major companies is also looking for a reliable way to identify, but no one can predict who will make good products, and only through some clues to identify.

If you are an interviewer, how can you tell if the person is going to make a good product? The easiest way is to see if he has made a good product, so it's easy to guess that he could make more good products. But most people are not so lucky, I can only see whether this person has the potential.

Demand thousands, the resources are limited, which one you want to meet---------------------------------------------------------- The feedback of the product is not good how to do-the decision-making power under high pressure. The engineer does not trust you how to do, the designer personality is very strong how to do, the leadership proposes to add new function how to do--communication ability.

Product managers most of the ability to work out from the job, but the feeling of the product can be cultivated, I suggest to see, use, do.

Look at how others use the product. Of course does not mean that people play computer you stand next to, so people will feel very embarrassed. For example, when others show you a new product special emphasis on what function, when the car to see people out of the phone to do what (note 1).

Use refers to using a product. I personally do not recommend a new site immediately ask for a registration code, and then go into a little bit of a cursory comment. (although I often do this –-) most of the new products will die for various reasons in a few years, not as much as the use of our accustomed to often ignore those products, although old, but the precipitation of things must have his existence value. For example, there are a lot of comments, some of the most recent comments in the top, some support the most comments on the above, some can reply to others comments, some evaluation + comments, which is suitable for e-commerce?

The last thing to do is to turn your ideas into products. We often think of an idea that would be too excited to do, and I would be the next Zuckerberg, and then really get things done that didn't work out and start looking for an objective reason. And the most important thing to me is that I can always be introspective, when you can think of one thing without a strong utilitarian color, the matter is half the story.

What is the change in the nature of the job after turning it into a product manager?

You have more decision-making power over the product, but that's enough to make people excited. Think about it, you will directly affect the experience of a product, if millions of people are using this product, in fact, you are affecting the lives of millions of people!

Your work will change from one performer to a manager (note 2). Your to-do list used to have a few specific tasks each day, maybe you can write it down with a sticky note, and you need to encode or design to solve it. And now you have a vague goal, to achieve this goal you have a clear idea, but also to persuade peers and lead your way feasible. It sounds hard, in fact very few people can do well at first, most of us are involved in a team, starting from the design of a function to learn. But I believe that if you love to make products, you will make us proud of the work:

I hope this will help you. Product Manager is a relatively new career, I would like to see people of all backgrounds to become peers, together to make our own and suitable for the national conditions of the Internet products.

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