Product Manager

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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

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

Deeper paths for particular environments or directions.

• Platform Product Management

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