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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