T-shaped skill profiles are insufficient for product managers
Petra Wille · How to be the best coach to product people | Petra Wille (Strong Product People) · Nov 27, 2022 · at 8:13
Product leadership coach Petra Wille discusses the breadth of skills required for effective product management.
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“People tend to talk about T-shaped employee profiles. But T-shaped is so not enough for a product person, right? We want them to understand underlying problems of the business and the users, finding solution for those, getting things out of the door with the team, doing a lot of product discovery, looking at the data, how people are using it, iterating on the products. So there's so many things that we want them to be good at”
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