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Product Management Skills

Martin Eriksson defines product management as the intersection between business, technology, and user experience. He believes that a good product manager must be experienced in at least one of these areas and passionate about all of them. But what exact skills does a product manager need? From communication and strategic thinking to prioritisation and analytical skills, the list is long. This content looks at product management skills in different ways. Assess your product skills today If you'd like to assess your own product skills, check out our free Product Skills Toolkit. Designed to help you assess your skills and take the next step on your product learning journey, the toolkit includes a PDF download, video tutorials, and an email series.

SUNDAY REWIND: Product management career resilience

SUNDAY REWIND: Product management career resilience

This week’s Sunday Rewind takes us back to 2016 and an early ProductTank talk on how to survive in an enterprise environment from Randy Silver, then a Head of Product at HSBC.

Eira Hayward

The key is communication: Leading a travel product through the pandemic

The key is communication: Leading a travel product through the pandemic

We talk to Peek’s CPO Navya Rehani Gupta about the communication initiatives she instigated to see the travel company successfully through the pandemic.

Eira Hayward

Top product management reads in November

Top product management reads in November

From questions about how technical a product manager should be, or how to manage your career or how to master cross-disciplinary collaboration, here’s a look through our most-read posts in November.

Eira Hayward

How to keep your head about generative AI (when everyone is losing theirs) by Claire Woodcock

How to keep your head about generative AI (when everyone is losing theirs) by Claire Woodcock

Jon Horvath

Interviewing customers has never been more important – here's how you do it

Interviewing customers has never been more important – here's how you do it

Looking for a framework to help you structure your customer interviews? Here's a useful guide from Poornima Mohandas and Rahul Mohandas.

Poornima Mohandas

Steps to develop your product team: Insights from #mtpcon London

Steps to develop your product team: Insights from #mtpcon London

Product leader, author, and consultant Matt LeMay gave an enlightening presentation on developing your product team at the #mtpcon London 2023 Leadership Forum, which precedes the main London conference.

Eira Hayward

SUNDAY REWIND: The new cybernetics: systems thinking for the 21st century by Genevieve Bell

SUNDAY REWIND: The new cybernetics: systems thinking for the 21st century by Genevieve Bell

This week’s Sunday Rewind is a #mtpcon Digital APAC keynote from 2021 in which Genevieve Bell, Director of the 3A Institute (3Ai), gives us a whirlwind tour of cybernetics, demonstrating how its transdisciplinary approach can be used to inform our product processes and systems.

Eira Hayward

Navigating the era of personalization

Navigating the era of personalization

Product manager Sejla Vatres looks at how technology is shaping our life experiences and at how we can mitigate its risks

Šejla Vatreš

How to harness AI to stand out as a product manager

How to harness AI to stand out as a product manager

Steve Lourdessamy, Co-founder of Spheria.ai explores how to use AI to improve and grow as a product manager.

Steve Lourdessamy

Lessons learned when a product launch fails

Lessons learned when a product launch fails

As a product manager how do you respond when your product fails? We find out what some senior product people have learned from their experiences of failure.

Eira Hayward

How to F.A.I.L. better in product by Marc Abraham

How to F.A.I.L. better in product by Marc Abraham

Eira Hayward

SUNDAY REWIND: Decision supervision – Structured thinking for product people by Lucy Spence

SUNDAY REWIND: Decision supervision – Structured thinking for product people by Lucy Spence

This week’s Sunday Rewind is an MTP Engage Manchester talk from Lucy Spence, then an Associate Director at comparethemarket.com, on the techniques she’s found to help her make structured decisions.

Eira Hayward