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#productmanagers Taking a coding class is the least effective way to become more technical.
Here are the 9 core topics in software that you should focus on instead:
#productmanagement
Irene Yu
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Irene Yu
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Tweet: technical knowledge 👩💻 | Become more technical without coding | Subscribe 👉 newsletter.skiplevel.co | Software eng @ ex-Amazon | Product Advisor
- Replying to @MattWallace888Elon Musk hasn't announced who the new CEO is, simply that it's a woman. The amount of misogyny on this post is effing insane.
- #productmanagers Taking a coding class is the least effective way to become more technical. Here are the 9 core topics in software that you should focus on instead: #productmanagement
- #productmanagers, if you want to write a business requirement doc that your dev team will love, start using more diagrams! In fact, diagrams should be the bulk of the doc. Ask yourself first if the req can be visualized as a flow diagram, then add text for clarification.
- SaaS tools every #productmanagers should learn at some point in their career: - Project management tool (Jira) - Documentation tool (Confluence) - Data Viz tool (Kibana) - Flow & Diagramming tool (Miro) - API Platform (Postman) Agree, disagree? What other SaaS tools & why?
- #productmanagers Everyone working in tech should know and understand APIs, but how deep do you need to go, especially if you're not a developer? Here are the core API learnings you should learn as a non-developer: #productmanagement
- I've been thinking.. What if I hosted a FREE webinar on How to Master Technical Literacy for #ProductManagers (and other tech roles)? WHO'S IN? You'll get a better sense of where your current technical skills are and how to become more technical without learning how to code...
- #productmanagers are approaching user stories all wrong. In my experience as a dev working with PMs, PMs tend to overly focus on "what is customer perspective?" when writing #userstories. But what's actually the ultimate goal of user stories?
- #productmanagers If you want to be a technical PM, you need to understand how systems communicate across the technology. And no, I'm not just talking about APIs. I'm talking about communication patterns. There are many of them, but here's one you need to know:
- Tech jargon can feel overwhelming if you're a PM but it doesn't have to be! That's why @carlvellotti and I teamed up to create a tech terms glossary of the most important terms across API, Data, System Design, and Infrastructure. Here are 9 API "Tech Terms You Should know"👇
- #productmanagers Want to build more #empathy with your dev team? Show them your product roadmap and timeline. Empathy goes both ways–PMs should learn about tech and devs should learn about product. 🧵 #productmanagement
- Tech terms to know as a #productmanager: SaaS (Software-as-a-Service): Used by consumers; is the final end product PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service): Used by devs & businesses; provides tools to host, build, and deploy apps IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service): Used by devs &
- Tech terms for #productmanager: Libraries & Frameworks! Both are pre-written packaged pieces of code that devs use to speed up app development. They both solve common programming problems so that devs don't have to re-invent the wheel each time. The difference is 👇
- Tech for #productmanagers: Token/Tokenization is a popular way of securing sensitive data on the internet. Here's what it is and how it works 👇 #productmanagement #learntech
