Curriculum · product management
The Practice Map
A zero-to-expert path across 6 career levels and 55 skills. Earn mastery by proving the judgment, not by clearing checkboxes.
What the job actually is, and the shared language to do it.
What a PM is, what a PM is not, and how the work fits together.
How product, engineering, and design build together.
Enough technical and quantitative fluency to be dangerous.
Execute cleanly: specs, stories, and a backlog that ships.
Own outcomes: discover, prioritize, measure, experiment.
Set strategy and move people who don’t report to you.
Multiply teams through judgment, framing, and leverage.
Build the org and the operating model that builds product.
Go deep on a domain once you reach Senior. These run beside the ladder, not on it.
Loops, funnels, and retention as a system.
Products whose customers are other builders.
Evals, prompt & context engineering, agents, AI-fit judgment.
Packaging, pricing, and the business model.
Two-sided liquidity, matching, and trust.
How buyer, user, and motion differ across the divide.
Finding product-market fit from nothing.