Do you Want to Become a Product Owner, Let’s begin with understanding the role of a Product Owner first.
The Product Owner is responsible for defining product features and keeping product requirements ready for the dev team.
They are responsible for product PI planning, Iteration planning along with scrum teams.
The Product Owner is primarily doing only operational activities of Product Management. To move up the Product career, one must acquire strategic thinking skills.
Product Owners mostly work internally with engineers and UX Designers.
PO also does feature prioritization based on the Product strategy defined by Product Leaders.
To be a successful and effective Product Owner, One must undergo formal Product Management Training.
One must read & research Product Management books.
Apply all the learnings from our online product management course at work.
Here are the 10 key skills needed to be an effective Product Manager:
Which of the following are natural and which can be nurtured?
- Problem-Solving Attitude – as humans, we are never comfortable in any problem situation and as a natural tendency we tend to have an approach to solving the problem and coming out of that situation. But to have it as an attitude is another level approach. Firstly, being alert and looking for problems by empathizing with the customer and secondly looking for an innovative solution again with empathy. This has to be nurtured.
- Passion for technology – Tech has changed the landscape of product management. An innovative use of tech can bring delight to customers. Eg. Amazon uses the internet to sell books Or PayTM using a QR code. For this generation of Product Managers, tech and its changes have to be pursued and updated almost daily. Hence nurture it.
- Deep User understanding – Study/ read/ watch about newer research on Consumer Behaviour. Hence nurture.
- An eye for design –Empathizing with the customer and creating a well-designed product. Applying an emotional, logical, and behavioural approach to product design. This is an application area of product design. Learn the concepts and apply them. Hence nurture.
- Business Sense – We come across many businesses – many clicks, many fail. A business sense can be developed with experience. Hence nurture.
- Analytical skills – Of course nurture.
- Leadership qualities – This is a strong personality trait. Kapil Dev was a captain in our 1983 world cup win. He was only 24. Sunil Gavaskar was 34 at that time and was much more experienced as a captain than Kapil. MS Dhoni – a strong leader with demonstration as a predominant trait. Other traits of these two leaders – are vision, pointed focus on winning, high optimism, courage, fearlessness, and never giving up. This is Nature.
- Teamwork – Another personality trait. Again most leaders have this trait. Nature.
- Ability to take feedback – Another personality trait. One has to be open to criticism and failure. If a PM is headstrong and does not take feedback – it might bring his downfall.
- Prioritization capabilities – Decision-making skills come into play here. It is a managerial skill which has to be nurtured with experience.
Our Competitive Advantages are:
- Harvard Business School case-study-based training
- The cost of the Training is only INR 19,999/-
- Duration is only 1 week
- Product Management Trainers have combined professional experience of more than 40 years in Product Strategy, Product Management and Product Marketing
- The Trainers also have 10+ years in Academics and Product Management Training.
- We cover the vast domain of Product Management and include all the topics like Behavior Driven Design and concepts of Choice Architecture, Nudge and Behavioral Economics.
If you want us to train the product management and product development team at your company, please contact us @ rahul.vtc@gmail.com
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