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Product Management

Decide what to build, and why, then get it shipped.

Product Managers decide what to build and why, aligning users, business and engineering to ship value. It is a high-impact, well-paid path that rewards judgement, communication and evidence over code.

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The complete Product Management field roadmap - everything worth learning, from fundamentals to advanced. Highlighted core topics are the ones we take you through in the UstackSchool programme.

Core - taught in the programmeRecommendedOptional / advanced

1

Foundations

The PM role Product lifecycle Product mindset PM vs PO vs PMM

2

User Research & Discovery

User interviews Surveys Problem framing Jobs-to-be-Done Personas Continuous discovery Ethnography

3

Prioritisation & Roadmapping

RICE MoSCoW Roadmaps OKRs Now / Next / Later Kano

4

Product Delivery

Writing PRDs User stories Acceptance criteria Agile / Scrum Working with engineers Sprint planning

5

Design & UX

Wireframing Prototyping Usability testing Design thinking Figma basics

6

Metrics & Analytics

North Star metric Product metrics (AARRR)Funnels A/B testing Amplitude / Mixpanel Cohort analysis SQL basics

7

Growth

Growth loops Activation & retention Experimentation Product-led growth

8

Strategy

Product strategy Product vision Competitive analysis Market sizing Business models Pricing

9

Go-to-Market

Launch planning Positioning Working with marketing & sales

10

Stakeholder & Leadership

Stakeholder management Communication Influence without authority Storytelling

11

Technical Fluency

APIs Databases basics System design basics AI / ML basics

12

Get job-ready

Product capstone Portfolio & case studies PM interviews: product sense, execution, strategy Analytical / estimation

Tools & technologies

Jira / Linear Figma (reading)Amplitude / Mixpanel Notion / Confluence Miro A/B testing tools SQL (basic)Slack

Free, open learning resources

Every topic and tool above links to our in-depth UstackSchool guide for Product Management. To go wider for free, these open resources also help:

freeCodeCamp →roadmap.sh (open-source) →YouTube full course →More free resources →

Free resources build knowledge. UstackSchool adds the practical experience, evidence and support that get you hired.

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