Find and Fix Skill Gaps to Cut Product Development Risk
README.md
Are you leading teams to build a product? If you’re facing ongoing issues like poor communication or weak product-market fit, these can be due to critical skill gaps.
You can either:
Fumble along, scrambling to put out fires as problems worsen ❌
OR
Derisk work with soft skills and product managing skills now! ✅
The frameworks here decompose these areas, so you can:
- Pinpoint gaps in skills faster and
- Track progress as you work to fix these gaps
This lets you align skill improvements with urgent needs, as well as future goals.
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Soft skills
“Not so soft in reality”, some skills boost your productivity. Others help you communicate ideas better. Some help you lead better product teams.
Product management
“Whether it’s a platform or SaaS, you are working on a product” so work on your product skills to improve product metrics
AI and Machine Learning
Gain a mid-level perspective on the hottest technology driving the next product frontier
Cloud Security
Gain coverage of activities that help you make sure your software is secure in the cloud
Bonus: Productivity patterns
Optimize your work for quality and efficiency by comparing opposing methods
README.md (Continued)
It’s often trivial to engage in learning like taking courses, reading books, and more. However, it can be tough to gauge how that learning is contributing to you developing a capability.
So, I hope the model I develop here will help in ways like:
- Increasing the visibility of what to cover in a capability
- Reinforcing concepts from learning sources
- Supporting ongoing evaluation of your progress
It’s like a “self-coaching” model that helps you know where to focus your limited “growing time”. It would supplement your existing efforts by tailoring your next steps to your context.
All it takes is:
- Visual bearings of the capabilities
- Mapping your path forward
- Reinforce concepts through consistent engagement
- Actively apply concepts to real-world context
- Gauge your progress
On your own, it’d be daunting. This site aims to help.
The benefit that I hope to give you
Before
“I suffered a lot of growing pains and lacked structure when working in new areas of a capability I want to enhance. Chronic attention deficit didn’t help. Not to mention having to experience it all with the thinking and planning tools I had…which were none! Ouch…
After
“Having a system to support my capability development gave me what I need to keep pushing harder at work in a mindful and focused way. I feel like I can reinforce my learning without burning out. Nothing is extra or lacking, no countless hours sitting in conferences.”
Techie meets the real world of work
I’m Ash, an ex-operations director. The concepts on this site are informed by my many years of learning, trial & error, and achieving results.
My career had a simple start in an IT helpdesk environment. But those simple times were short-lived. Over the years, I got into coding up and managing SaaS products with my employer’s blessings while handling its technology portfolio.
In the past 15 years, I have:
- guided engineering teams to develop products with emerging technologies & principles like WebRTC, CI/CD, and Zero Trust security in the 2010s
- driven the transformation of a primary healthcare organization to specialized clinical and digital health services
- developed advocacy to support the uptake of emerging principles in software reliability like observability, chaos engineering, and more
I hope you can develop essential and trending capabilities more systematically through the Skyhatch system 🙏🏼