A Product Manager Community

Hello, I am Oluwasegun Akinshola Lawrence, and I started a community on Twitter for Product Managers to collaborate and create product portfolios.

I had been in search of my first role as a Product Manager (I'm still searching). Though I currently work in a product management role as a Product Marketer for Daily Brief, I found out that new PMs on the block (especially in Nigeria) do not have significant skin in the game. There is limited practical experience in collaborating on projects that can be added to a Product Manager portfolio before securing your first PM role.

Practical experiences that you may not find in those entry-level courses unless, of course, you could afford and enrol in Product School, Department of Product, Udacity or Entry Level — to an extent, which allows you to get your hands dirty all through your certification process. In fairness, the first 3 on my list have had more time and resources to hatch a thorough all-inclusive curriculum, and without a doubt, I will strongly recommend Udacity Nanodegree Program to anyone looking to start out as a PM, I had a thorough learning experience with them.

So I started a community for Product Managers trying to get their foot in the door, like me; folks who are ready not to waste their shot.

More like a room where it should begin to happen, through collaboration, we will form units that will navigate the ideal product development phase to work on and build tech products and document our works as we approach our dream jobs.

At the time of this publication, we have 49 circle members and we will be starting our official first open-source project. Join Us Today

Especially if you have less than 2 years of experience in Product Management and want to collaborate on tech product development projects with mostly no-code tools, click here.

Once you’re in, you will most likely require all of these 5 fundamentals;

• Essential PM skills — as a PM, what can you do?

• Product Ideation — what do you want to build or add to an existing tech solution?
• Accountability — connect with circle members and work on agreed deliverables within a limited scheduled period.
• Documentation — launching the product or not is secondary, the primary goal is documenting the PM role you played during the processes.
• Consistency and Collaboration — repeating steps 2–4 will sharpen your ability. Other circle members are looking to build a portfolio too, let's give back. So after securing your first PM role take some time to continue collaborating and working on side-projects with the rest of us

Perhaps, like Alexander Hamilton, this may be the movement that will change our lives and the lives of others for good.

I also believe that every tech enthusiast, designers, software developer and PM professional with experience in the product development cycle, the launching and of course; the management, are all welcome.