The Product Operating Model is often referred to as Professional Product Management.
A profession is a type of work with a shared mission, specialized skills, knowledge, experiences, and values.
Professional Product Management aims to achieve product success by delivering valuable, viable, usable, desirable, and feasible products.
The Professional Product Management Skills Framework has been developed to enable the practice of professional product management.
Product management is often treated as project management, in which managing the team, project, budget, timelines, and delivery of outputs seem to be the core job.
To drive meaningful change, product professionals need to focus on problems and opportunities, not delivery.
Professional product management aims to establish visions, strategies, outcome-oriented roadmaps, value dashboards, and product analytics.
Despite the growth of the product management community, many practitioners and organizations still operate without the professionalism that this field deserves.
Implementing Professional Product Management can enable product managers to focus on outcomes and results rather than actions and outputs.
Embracing Professional Product Management is key to driving meaningful change and elevating the profession of product management.