Journey through engineering, marketing and product with Ed Shelley - Product Ramble 02 Product Ramble

I truly enjoyed my conversation with Ed Shelley – Director of Product Management at Chartmogul. He shared his insights from following a very unique path – from engineering, through product management, then to marketing and finally back to product. Enjoy!

Detailed notes and links to resources mentioned: https://productramble.com/ed-shelley-engineering-marketing-product-pr02

Lots of goodness ahead:
* (0:00) Welcome to Product Ramble!
* (1:15) Ed’s road to product management
* (6:27) Learning the craft of product management
* (9:38) Skills needed for a tech to become a product manager
* (11:38) Advice to engineers moving to product
* (15:33) Move from Product Management to Marketing
* (19:09) How being in Marketing differs from Product and learning new skills
* (22:50) How his product experience influenced the way he did marketing
* (26:16) Mistakes product people do working with other teams in a company
* (35:05) Back to Product - is he better PM due to his Marketing experience?
* (41:02) Tools Ed recommends for product managers and startups
* (45:42) Books that Ed recommends
* (49:09) Come say hi to Ed
* (50:21) Tell your friends!

Say Hi to Ed:
* Twitter: @Mr_Ed (https://twitter.com/Mr_Ed)
* Ed’s website: https://edshelley.com
* Ed hosts a podcast SaaS Open Mic (ChartMogul)

Say hi to me!
* Please let me know what I can do better next time! (podcast@productramble.com or your social network of choice)
* Subscribe - don’t miss the next episode coming in January
* Tell one friend - help others learn from and enjoy the podcast

Music credits:
The Pyre Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/