How to Grow Your Product Management Skills as a Product Owner

The New Approach for a Skill-based Product Owner Maturity Model

David Theil
7 min readJan 11, 2024

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This article series will help you assess and grow your Product Management Skills and better understand your role as a Product Owner.

Read the first article here.

Product Owner Maturity Model in the Context of Problem and Solution Space. See Miro

Managing a product through the product life cycle is hard. It is even more difficult to grow as a product owner in these challenging times. Product ownership is a very complex and multifaceted challenge. And because of the complexity of the topic, there is no single linear approach to mastering product ownership. That’s why we need agile and lean approaches and a wide range of knowledge and skills.
You can study product management for years at university. This shows how profound and demanding the entire discipline is. It also shows how long it takes to build the skills required to be successful in this field.
To succeed, you need the right skills and the right approaches. Only if you are aware of the complexity and know what you are doing will your product be successful throughout the entire product life cycle.

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