Product discovery
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Identifies and validates problems worth solving through user evidence.
Course coverage
- Platform Product Management
- Product Discovery (planned)
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Product and design
Product Manager
Defines what to build and why, aligning user needs, business goals, and engineering effort into a product direction.
Skill coverage
63%
Course coverage
38%
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
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
Learning path
Relevant courses
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.
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