Product manager from scratch, how realistic is it?

Question

Career in IT

How realistic is it to get a product manager position without experience? I am 30 years old, I worked mainly as an account manager, I have experience as a project manager (1.5g, not IT). I was very interested in the direction of the product manager. I plan to unlearn courses for theory. Is it possible to get a junior position after the course? Does it make sense to take internships after training for more successful interviews?

Answer 1

June product manager? there is no such profession.
You either lead the product or you don't. Even an assistant product manager should be on point.
Development is very different from any other tangible product.
And since the task of a product manager is also to understand where we are going, without understanding the development, not even being able to roughly estimate the costs of implementing different features (and the fact that some team leads or architects will tell you is not true. They will drown for technology, and not for business Wishlist), you just ruin the product.
Of course, management strongly depends on the person, and we don’t know what background you have. Find friends who work in this direction, communicate closely, find out the opinion of an IT specialist from the side of not a random person from the Internet, but someone who knows you and worked with you.

Answer 2

IMHO, don't waste your money on courses. A kanban book, a scrum book, an agile book and go for an internship.
Spend 50 bucks on paid Jira, ADO, pivotaltracket and even free trello and understand all their buttons that you can stumble on.
And you will be head and shoulders above everyone else who is breaking into an internship. An internship is not a job. It’s just a free way to enter IT and you have to get around the same freeloaders
half a year ago, about a peekaboo, I saw an advertisement for a course of some popular office for a manager. They muddied a squeeze there, like how would you, as a manager, act in this situation. It's funny, but there was either no correct answer, or it was impossible to answer unambiguously. All questions were shit. Here's how to trust such courses after that.