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What basic skills are needed to be a successful ATC?

What essential skills/tools/knowledge are needed to become a technology product manager?

  • Given there are few formal education programs for Product Management, and that most PMs got into this field "accidentally", and likely learned on the job, the question is what are the base skills, tools, knowledge etc. that are either necessary or VERY useful to have to be a great Product Manager? These could be business, technical, interpersonal, organization or other skills or knowledge. I'm interested in *specific* skills or tools or knowledge that are a must for any product manager of technology products.

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    I am naming the most important of each as business - commercially astute - you should be able to smell the next moneymaking opportunity technical - be able to talk, reason with developers and not be the jerk who is asking for the impossible given current skills and resources Ux - be able to wireframe and be able to provide guidance to the Ux and designers Customer insight - able to empathise with customers and extract needs and wants from them Communication - ability to able to distill and communicate in the most succinct , focussed way.

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To be a successful PM in any industry it is very important to have the Business knowledge which is the only think according to me will change as par the change in the http://industry.Sohttp://industry.so/ to answer your question, all 4 skills are important but skill 1,2 and 4 is same across all industries. Skill 3 is industry specific. So prepare on all 4 skills. 1. Influence skills( Communication/Interpersonal/motivation skills)2.Decision making skills( Analytical/Strategic thinking)3.Business knowledge(Industry-market /competition /product/customer /technology)4.Vision (how the product will survive in the dynamic trends and patterns in the business and change management )

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