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Sacha Dawes

AMA: Flexera Vice President Of Product Management, Sacha Dawes on Product Management Skills

January 21 @ 9:00AM PST
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We will email you Sacha's answers to these questions after the event in case you can't make it.
Where should I look for training on product management?
How would someone get into product management who is early in their career and has some project management skills?
How do product management skills change as you get more senior in the role?
I'm a technical product manager now and I find that the execution piece of my previous roles is not as desired in my current role and I am trying to balance what I deem as PM fundamentals with what my new role expectations should be.
What hard skills are must haves to be a Product leader? What are nice to haves?
How do I keep my AI/ML PM skills up-to-date since I impacted by layoff?
Switching back to product management
For someone who used to work in product management but switched to product marketing for the last 8 years, why is it so difficult to get back into product management at Cisco?
How can I navigate a situation where I am frequently assigned project management tasks rather than product management responsibilities, and where there seems to be a lack of emphasis on product vision and impact-based product building?
How are you / your team using AI in your product development workflow today?
What are the top 3 most technical skills a Product Manager needs to have? How do you hone these skills and talk about them during interviews?
Do you have any recommended online courses for those interested in breaking into product management (e.g. LinkedIn Learning PM learning path, Udemy, etc.)
What are mistakes product managers make when trying to get buy in for their roadmap that end up damaging stakeholder relationships?
What is the qualities of a Product Manager that impresses their Engineering counterparts and thereby allows the PM to build influence with the Eng team?