Product Managers and Project Management Skills
Question: Do product managers need project management skills?
Similar questions are often posed relative to product managers needing financial, coding, technical, metrics, data management, time management, leadership, etc..… skills.
Any skill can be helpful, and anyone in a business setting will benefit from having a range of peripheral skills.
But all the aforementioned skills and many beyond are not core to product management, as defined in PMTK.
These skills are considered relevant to product management because of three prevalent yet unsupported approaches to product management - particularly the Generalization approach, which views product management as responsible for nearly anything and everything related to the product (CEO of the Product).
In PMTK, the product manager is a highly strategic role responsible for managing the market problem that the product solves.
The traits required of a PMTK product manager are intelligence and a strong command of the English language.