The biggest lie told to aspiring Product Managers.
"You don't need technical skills to be a great PM."
80% Aspiring PMs believe this myth.
Then they get into real PM roles and struggle for 6-12 months before getting fired or quitting.
A Senior PM at Flipkart told me: "Non-technical PMs spend 70% of their time asking developers to explain things instead of solving user problems."
5 Technical Skills Every PM Must Learn:
5️. AI Agents :You must know how to build AI agents using no-code tools.
4️. API Understanding: Know how your product talks to other systems. Critical for integrations, partnerships, and technical product decisions.
3️. System Design Fundamentals: Understand scalability, databases, and architecture. Helps you make better product decisions that won't break at scale.
2️. Analytics Implementation: Know how tracking works, what events to capture, and how to set up proper measurement frameworks.
1️. Basic Coding Logic: Don't need to code, but understand if-then logic, loops, and data structures. Helps you think like engineers and communicate better.
𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿, 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗺𝗲. 𝗜’𝗱 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗼𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆.
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Thanks Harish Suresh for sharing. I have seen non-tech PM’s acting like glorified executive assistant. Both hiring manager hiring process and the candidate lacking curiousity and quick learning ability makes the life hell for everyone working with the PM.
Moreover Project Manager becoming Product Manager is misfit as these two demand different skills.