A SNAPSHOT, A NEXT STEP
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Reflect on recent work, rate eight skills, and choose what to practice next.
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Think of a recent example for each skill. Choose the level you can demonstrate consistently, then use the guidance to check your rating.
How the 1–5 scale works
- 1. Learning — I understand the basics and need practice.
- 2. With support — I can apply this with help or review.
- 3. Independent — I can handle familiar situations independently.
- 4. Complex situations — I adapt my approach when the situation is ambiguous.
- 5. Guiding others — I consistently apply this and help others improve.
Targets are your goals for the next stage of growth. They are not a benchmark or a requirement for your role.
1. Customer discovery
How well can you turn customer needs into a problem worth solving?
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- 1. Learning: Explain the difference between a customer request and a need.
- 2. With support: Help plan interviews and summarize findings with a colleague.
- 3. Independent: Investigate a customer problem and synthesize useful evidence independently.
- 4. Complex situations: Resolve conflicting signals and choose research that reduces the biggest uncertainty.
- 5. Guiding others: Coach others on research quality and establish an ongoing discovery practice.
2. Product strategy
How well can you connect product choices to a clear direction?
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- 1. Learning: Explain what a product strategy is meant to achieve.
- 2. With support: Help connect an initiative to a customer and business outcome.
- 3. Independent: Set a coherent direction with explicit choices and measures of success.
- 4. Complex situations: Adapt strategy as market signals change and explain the tradeoffs.
- 5. Guiding others: Coach teams on strategy and align several initiatives around a clear direction.
3. Prioritization
How well can you choose what gets capacity and explain what waits?
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- 1. Learning: Describe common ways to compare product opportunities.
- 2. With support: Compare options using evidence and estimates with support.
- 3. Independent: Choose work against outcomes, constraints, and opportunity cost.
- 4. Complex situations: Resolve competing priorities with uncertain evidence and shifting constraints.
- 5. Guiding others: Help others make transparent decisions and improve how teams allocate capacity.
4. Delivery
How well can you work with a team to deliver and learn from an increment?
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- 1. Learning: Understand how an idea moves through development and release.
- 2. With support: Help clarify scope, acceptance criteria, and risks with the team.
- 3. Independent: Collaborate on useful increments and review the outcome after release.
- 4. Complex situations: Adapt scope and sequencing to dependencies and emerging delivery risks.
- 5. Guiding others: Coach teams on delivering value and improving their ways of working.
5. Data & experimentation
How well can you use trustworthy data to test a product decision?
See examples for each level
- 1. Learning: Distinguish activity metrics from customer or business outcomes.
- 2. With support: Read a metric and draft a testable hypothesis with support.
- 3. Independent: Choose a useful metric, check data quality, and interpret a test independently.
- 4. Complex situations: Recognize confounding factors and design a practical test under constraints.
- 5. Guiding others: Coach others on measurement and improve the team's evidence quality.
6. Stakeholder influence
How well can you build alignment without relying on formal authority?
See examples for each level
- 1. Learning: Identify who needs to be involved in a product decision.
- 2. With support: Prepare a clear update and gather feedback with support.
- 3. Independent: Tailor communication, surface disagreements, and build shared understanding.
- 4. Complex situations: Negotiate conflicting objectives and make hard tradeoffs explicit.
- 5. Guiding others: Coach others on influence and build productive relationships across teams.
7. Business acumen
How well can you connect product value to the economics of the business?
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- 1. Learning: Explain how your product creates value and how the business sustains it.
- 2. With support: Estimate benefits and costs with support and explicit assumptions.
- 3. Independent: Use business drivers and customer value to make a product decision.
- 4. Complex situations: Compare investment options, challenge assumptions, and account for risk.
- 5. Guiding others: Coach others on business cases and help teams make sound investment choices.
8. Technical fluency
How well can you discuss technical constraints and options with engineers?
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- 1. Learning: Describe the main systems behind your product in plain language.
- 2. With support: Ask useful questions about feasibility and dependencies with support.
- 3. Independent: Discuss technical options and their product implications with engineers.
- 4. Complex situations: Navigate architecture, reliability, privacy, and debt tradeoffs with the right experts.
- 5. Guiding others: Help others collaborate effectively across product and engineering disciplines.
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| Skill | Current |
|---|---|
| Customer discovery | — |
| Product strategy | — |
| Prioritization | — |
| Delivery | — |
| Data & experimentation | — |
| Stakeholder influence | — |
| Business acumen | — |
| Technical fluency | — |
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