What Skills Do You Need To Be a Product Manager?
The Skillsets Required for a Product Manager is Very Broad
For most of us, Product Management is a role you transition into after a few years of working experience.
Product managers can come from various backgrounds. Whether if you’re from a technical, design, business, data or project management background — you’ll have something to bring to the table.
This post will help you identify the different missing skills you need to transition into the role and be a great product manager.
Experience Is Important Because Product Management is a Decision Making Role
To be an excellent decision-making product manager, you need to:
- See the world through different perspectives
- Understand the pros and cons of different frameworks
- Utilise various tools to help you tease out ideas and facilitate conversations
The more skill sets you’ll attain, the more senior you’ll become.
Product Management Skills Can Be Categorised In Three Areas: Discovery, Delivery and Day to Day.
From my experience here are all the list of required skills to be a great PM (this will, of course, change over time. But it’s current as of 2020)
There Are Three Ways to Attain These Product Management skills:
Like any skills you learn in life, you need a combination of Experience, Literature, and Training. Here is are some examples of what you can do:
