Dear JobsBlog: Do you have any advice for a particular person wanting to branch out from a developer function to a program supervisor?,
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Certainly. I always have advice! :-) First, it’s important to understand what a Program Supervisor is and isn’t. Most other software companies don’t have the PM position, and Microsoft PMs are typically not “product managers” at other companies. They are also usually not project managers, requirements analysts, or marketing professionals. So as a developer, you may already have or be getting the right experiences now. not sure where you work now, but some of the best PMs I’ve ever met got their start at developers at small companies where they did it all: designed features, wrote specs, created prototypes, coded the product, and tested until everything was ready to go. If you are getting this experience now, you’re on a good track. get PM experience by becoming development leads. While PMs at Microsoft are peers of the developers and testers, the experience of leading a team of developers at other companies is often similar to what a PM does at Microsoft (minus the actual people management.) A lot of PMs are also former senior developers or even architects at other companies who were looking at the big picture of product development. you currently work at Microsoft as a developer or work in a part where you aren’t getting the regular PM type experience,
cheap windows 7 key, I suggest seeking out new opportunities when you can. Talk to the people in your company or on your team who do this work and ask how you can get involved to grow your skills. Get a mentor. Create side projects of your own. Volunteer with a non-profit to lead some of their technical projects. sounds like you are on the right track though. A PM really is a developer who enjoys the whole software development lifecycle, loves scoping, planning,
buy microsoft office 2010 Home And Business, managing, etc, and of course, has good people and customer skills. A PM is not just Tom Smykowski from Office Space who takes the requirements from the customers to the engineers – or rather, in Tom’s case, has his secretary do it. :-) luck! Gretchen 3/7 Please see Mel's comment below. I should clarify that PMs, Developers, and Testers are all peers on a team - so when I'm talking about getting new experiences to "qualify" for any PM function,
genuine win 7, I'm not suggesting that a PM is considered a more important or better compensated person on the team. It's just different, and even in lateral moves, you've gotten to get new experiences to be qualified ... Just like a PM would have to gain other experiences to qualify for a SDE or SDET function. Thanks for pointing this out, Mel,
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