Test your technical skills with Skiplevel's 8-question mini-quiz!

Want to feel more confident in your technical skills?

There are many benefits to being a technically literate product manager. After all, you’re a product manager designing and building a software product. Imagine trying to collaborate with rocket scientists to design and build a rocket without understanding even the fundamentals of physics, space, or rockets! You may be able to make it to the finish line but the struggle is real.

While a product manager isn’t expected to know how to code, there are many benefits to being a technically fluent product manager, including:

Communicating effectively with engineers
Understanding technical jargon
Credibility when speaking to engineers, leaders, interviewers, and investors
Ability to think critically about the trade-offs of various technical solutions
Asking well-informed questions during technical discussions

These capabilities are all benefits to being more technical, and they’re based on developing a mastery of the following 4 technical skills:

Having a broad awareness of available technologies

Evaluating technical trade-offs

Having an ability to communicate technically

Understanding of the software development lifecycle

So how technical are you?

Put your technical literacy to the test with Skiplevel's mini-quiz below!

Your results will be sent to your inbox after you complete our mini-quiz and includes explanations for each question.

"Huge thanks to Irene Yu and Skiplevel for this course, it's been by far the most helpful thing I've done in my career to understand software architecture, development lifecycle and get an overview of the key technical elements of our product. We have regular demo sessions of different parts of our product amongst the team and I would never have understood a recent walkthrough of our API in as much detail if I hadn't done this course… I highly recommend to anyone looking to get into product management in tech companies or anyone working closely with engineering teams!"

Amanda Green
Operations @ Unitary.ai

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"That feeling of accomplishment when you complete a course. Last month I finally (!) completed the Skiplevel Program, developed and taught by the fantastic Irene Yu. I appreciated the fact that the course was self-paced because there were times when I was really busy and had to focus on other things. Irene does a great job of breaking down technical concepts and providing real-world examples. The assignments made you think and apply what you learned in the modules. Highly recommend this course if you're looking to fill in the gaps regarding technical concepts in software development."

Karen Swyszcz
Product Manager @ Buddi