Literature for a beginner PM, as well as what kind of software for PM to start with?

Question

Project management

How to start a PM career, where to get up-to-date information? After all, it is difficult to start robots without experience and a great responsibility immediately falls. Perhaps there are positions of an assistant to the PM, or where is it better to gain experience?
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I understand you are talking about the manager in the development team.
I will answer briefly and, if necessary, answer subsequent questions)
Yes, it is possible. I myself work in a small development team with a waiting project without specific experience in development, but the fact is that I have a lot of code written during my years of study at the university and I understand the very logic, principles and try to follow the industry news.
To begin with, you really have to study PMBOK, no matter how boring it is. Next, you need to familiarize yourself in detail with all relevant development methodologies. After that, get acquainted with various task managers like trello, taiga, jira and redmine and then sprinkle everything on top with a good pinch of articles from habr and questions on the toaster.
Voila, you can claim the title of trainee project manager. Why trainee? Because the real experience of working with the team, software and the customer will not be replaced by any literature and training.
In any case, I wish you good luck in your new field and do not forget the main rule of the manager "Do no harm!" (:

Answer 2

If you are in Moscow, then the Yandex School of Managers can be a good experience. By the way, it's open now.

Answer 3

well, junior, trainees also exist,
of course PMBOK to rub until you're blue in the face
+ groups in FB

Answer 4

Good article about who the PM is and what he does.

Answer 5

You can always get a job in a small studio for a small salary and learn from a more experienced colleague. But in order for the studio to be interested in taking on a newcomer and spending time on his training, it is worth preparing and presenting yourself correctly. I see several options:
1) make your own micro-project on the web. Gather freelance designers and coders, organize their work (even if they don’t know, on their knees) and release some kind of mini-service or information resource. Or a simple game for social networks. It will be a good school of life.
2) get 30-40 thousand money and buy a PM course from Netology or Skillbox, pass it and go to the employer with a “diploma”. In Skillbox, the course was recorded by a rather charismatic and experienced Vladimir Zavertailov, which gives really useful knowledge. Our company's PMs are now taking this course, it is useful even for experienced guys. Learn more about the course: https://tagline.ru/agile-digital-management-school/

Answer 6

The PMA career begins when TL is tired of coding and he decides to deal only with management . And horizontally, if before that you were the head of a department and are transferring to manage IT staff, then you need to know the programming language and the infrastructure you are moving into, then get the knowledge of a junior in the Herding Cats
technology stack :
A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers