AUDIENCE: What career path that
combines computer science and business
development?
SPEAKER 1: Sure.
And business development.
So I think a common intersection
of those two worlds,
for instance, is what people would
call project management whereby
you have, ideally, some
technical background
to understand what it is the engineers
are doing and enough of a vocabulary
to talk with them about features
and goals and motivation.
But you're also interested
on the business side
and interacting with
customers and clients
and translating their desires into
more specific technical requests
of the team.
That tends to be the place
that a lot of recent graduates,
for instance, start whether they take
a business degree or a computer science
degree.
If they know they don't want
to be programming all day
long but they want to
straddle both worlds,
project management tends to be the place
to start, at least in the tech world.
AUDIENCE: OK.
Is CS50B help me to get my goal in this?
SPEAKER 1: To some extent, yes.
You will have more than
enough technical background
to have those kinds of
conversations with the engineers.
Let me go ahead and paste the
URL of the same business class
that I mentioned earlier.
This URL that I just
pasted into the chat window
is the OpenCourseWare version
of a class similar to what
I teach at Harvard's Business School.
And that class talks more about
security, cloud computing,
how the internet works.
So topics that we don't
cover, per se, in CS50
at least at that conceptual level,
but that's useful for a business
minded person to understand, as well.
So I would say the two classes,
CS50X and CS50B for business
might help you with those interests.
AUDIENCE: OK.
Last question.
Do you recommend any
books or another courses
to cover this project management?
SPEAKER 2: Yeah.
So if you're interested in a PM role,
otherwise known as a product manager
role, one of the most
popular books is this one
that I've just pasted into the chat
here, Cracking the PM Interview.
It's quite popular in terms of just
preparing for that sort of role.
It'll be the types of
questions that you might
be asked in an interview for that
type of role and the types of problems
that you might face if you actually
end up working in that sort of role.
So if you are looking for a book, that
one might be a good one to start with.
