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Product Management: Product Skills

  • Writer: Arnab Rajkhowa
    Arnab Rajkhowa
  • Aug 31, 2024
  • 1 min read

Product Skills are the foundation for designing high quality products that delight users and solve people’s needs.


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User Insights:

  1. How to understand what people need and problems they want a product to solve?

  2. How to gather information from users and dig deeper to surface key insights

  3. Perform User research


Data Insights:

  1. How to review data, analyze it and use it for better decision making?

  2. How to look at company metrics and explore A/B testing and statistics


Analytical Problem Solving:

  1. Frameworks for better decision making

  2. Systems thinking and techniques to tackle complex problems


Product and Design Skills:

  1. Develop product mindset and ability to drive product decisions

  2. Prototyping and brainstorming

  3. Prioritizing product decisions


Technical Skills:

  1. How to partner with engineers?

  2. How to better estimate development costs?

  3. APIs, Development, Deployment, SQL, Algorithms and more


Writing Product Document:

  1. Best Practices for writing Specs

  2. Using them to improve product


All the above are my notes from the reference book — Cracking the PM Career by Jackie Bavaro (Author), Gayle Laakmann McDowell (Author)

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