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How to Grow Your Product Management Skills as a Product Owner
The New Approach for a Skill-based Product Owner Maturity Model
This article series will help you assess and grow your Product Management Skills and better understand your role as a Product Owner.
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.
So ask yourself: What do you do, to grow and manage your professional skills as a Product Owner?
One thing is clear: It is not enough to leave the development of your professional product management skills to chance. You need to take a structured approach to developing and managing your skills.
This article will help you assess and grow your Product Management Skills and better understand your role as a Product Owner.
Lean Product Management
When you understand that product management is non-linear and complex you learn that an agile and lean approach is the best idea to succeed with your product. You have to iterate, experiment, create hypotheses, and test a lot.
In the following graphic, we see the Lean Product Pyramid popularized by Dan Olsen. We see that Product-Market Fit is reached when the value proposition of your product meets the user needs of your customer segment and has the right…
