Product Manager

Role Summary

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• Product Manager

Defines what to build and why, aligning user needs, business goals, and engineering effort into a product direction.

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• Skill coverage
• 63%
• 5 of 8 skills
• Course coverage
• 38%
• 6 of 16 courses

Skill coverage shows how much of the role's capability map already has a published course. Course coverage shows how much of the mapped course pipeline for this role has shipped.

• Role skills 8
• Published coverage 5
• Relevant courses 6
• Capability map

Requirements

Skills

Importance describes how central each capability is to the role. Course coverage shows where you can build the skill in the current OpenSkills catalog.

• 01
• Product strategy
• 4 capabilities
• Product discovery
• Importance: Essential (5 of 5)

Identifies and validates problems worth solving through user evidence.

• Course coverage
• Platform Product Management
• Product Discovery (planned)
• Roadmapping
• Importance: Essential (5 of 5)

Sequences outcomes and bets into a communicable product roadmap.

• Course coverage
• Technology Roadmapping, Outcome-Based Roadmapping and OKRs (planned)
• Market analysis
• Importance: Very important (4 of 5)

Assesses competitors, positioning, and opportunity size.

• Course coverage
• Product Market Analysis
• Competitive Intelligence and Positioning (planned)
• Product metrics
• Importance: Essential (5 of 5)

Defines and tracks metrics that measure product health and impact.

• Course coverage
• Product Metrics, Product Analytics Instrumentation (planned)
• 02
• Product execution
• 4 capabilities
• Requirements definition
• Importance: Essential (5 of 5)

Translates problems into clear specs, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

• Course coverage
• Requirements Engineering
• Requirements Elicitation Techniques (planned)
• Prioritization
• Importance: Essential (5 of 5)

Makes explicit trade-offs across value, effort, and risk.

• Course coverage
• Product Prioritization, Technical Debt vs. Feature Prioritization (planned)
• Stakeholder management
• Importance: Very important (4 of 5)

Aligns leadership, customers, and teams around decisions.

• Course coverage
• Technical Stakeholder Communication
• Stakeholder Mapping and Influence (planned)
• Agile delivery
• Importance: Very important (4 of 5)

Works with engineering teams through iterative delivery practices.

• Course coverage
• Agile Software DevelopmentFree
• Scrum Fundamentals
• Learning path
• Relevant courses
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• Core foundations

The concepts this role is built on.

• Product Market Analysis
• Requirements Engineering
• Product Discovery, Product Metrics, Product Prioritization, Technology Roadmapping (planned)
• Supporting knowledge

Adjacent knowledge that improves day-to-day judgment.

• Agile Software DevelopmentFree
• Scrum Fundamentals
• Technical Stakeholder Communication

Competitive Intelligence and Positioning, Outcome-Based Roadmapping and OKRs, Product Analytics Instrumentation, Requirements Elicitation Techniques, Stakeholder Mapping and Influence, Technical Debt vs. Feature Prioritization (planned)

Specializations

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• Platform Product Management
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