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The free & open source guide that is designed to walk you through the main skills required to be a great Product Manager (PM).
By reading through (or skipping around), you'll get a taste of everything that goes into being a PM. Each section is simple enough to understand the purpose of the skill, while also giving you quick links to go and do your own additional research.
By no means is this guide perfect — There is no right or wrong here. As you'll quickly find, there's a many schools of thought around Product Management. Additionally, how the Product Manager role works across various companies and industries changes. It's best to think of this guide as the perfect overview and jumping off point for the various skills required in Product Management.
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Not including the Prelude, the PM's Skill Guide guide is broken down into four major Categories filled with Section and Topics. The Topic pages give you the breakdown of the skill, while the Sections helps to organize everything for recall.