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AUDIENCE: What career path that
combines computer science and business

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development?

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SPEAKER 1: Sure.

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And business development.

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So I think a common intersection
of those two worlds,

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for instance, is what people would
call project management whereby

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you have, ideally, some
technical background

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to understand what it is the engineers
are doing and enough of a vocabulary

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to talk with them about features
and goals and motivation.

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But you're also interested
on the business side

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and interacting with
customers and clients

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and translating their desires into
more specific technical requests

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of the team.

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That tends to be the place
that a lot of recent graduates,

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for instance, start whether they take
a business degree or a computer science

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degree.

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If they know they don't want
to be programming all day

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long but they want to
straddle both worlds,

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project management tends to be the place
to start, at least in the tech world.

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AUDIENCE: OK.

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Is CS50B help me to get my goal in this?

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SPEAKER 1: To some extent, yes.

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You will have more than
enough technical background

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to have those kinds of
conversations with the engineers.

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Let me go ahead and paste the
URL of the same business class

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that I mentioned earlier.

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This URL that I just
pasted into the chat window

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is the OpenCourseWare version
of a class similar to what

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I teach at Harvard's Business School.

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And that class talks more about
security, cloud computing,

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how the internet works.

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So topics that we don't
cover, per se, in CS50

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at least at that conceptual level,
but that's useful for a business

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minded person to understand, as well.

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So I would say the two classes,
CS50X and CS50B for business

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might help you with those interests.

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AUDIENCE: OK.

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Last question.

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Do you recommend any
books or another courses

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to cover this project management?

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SPEAKER 2: Yeah.

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So if you're interested in a PM role,
otherwise known as a product manager

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role, one of the most
popular books is this one

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that I've just pasted into the chat
here, Cracking the PM Interview.

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It's quite popular in terms of just
preparing for that sort of role.

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It'll be the types of
questions that you might

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be asked in an interview for that
type of role and the types of problems

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that you might face if you actually
end up working in that sort of role.

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So if you are looking for a book, that
one might be a good one to start with.

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