Session Description
Are you a business analyst who wonders how you can use your business analysis capabilities to be competitive in the job market for the next 3 to 5 years?
As I first noted back in 2017, product owner and product manager roles offer a viable career path for business analysts, especially those who currently work on custom software development projects.
Come to this session to learn about the similarities and differences between business analysis, product owner, and product manager roles. Then discover how you can apply your business analysis experience to becoming a product owner or product manager. Along the way, you’ll hear about the lessons I and others have learned from moving from business analysis through product owner to product management roles.
Learning Objectives
- Compare business analysis, product owner, and product management roles
- Learn how to use your business analysis skills to successfully become a product owner or product manager
- Discover lessons learned from people who have moved from business analysis to product manager
Handout
Further Info About Moving into Product Management
As a result of putting this session together, my “spidey sense” became attuned to other advice for moving into product management.
Here’s a collection of helpful hints I’ve come across in the past few weeks.
On LinkedIn, Victoria Rubanovich provided some suggestions for getting product experience within your own organization.
Victoria also suggested building your own product, which she did to help get her job at Amazon.
Also from LinkedIn, I got this one very important tip from Austin Yang: A shockingly simple thing you can do to stand out against 80% of the candidates when interviewing for a PM role: Try. The. Product.
Related Posts
This session was a fun one to put together and present because it’s a topic I’ve been dabbling with for quite a while. Ok. It’s actually something I’ve lived most of my career.
Here are some related posts on the topic of product people roles.
This post is a somewhat in depth look at different product roles, and the different models for including product people on teams, both internal facing and external facing.
This article, originally published in the Q4 2022 Edition of BA Digest from Blackmetric Business Solutions is the inspiration for the presentation I gave at BBC.