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...