KYS Report

Know Yourself Test

Neelam Dalwani

Skills - Strengths and Blindspots

This chart breaks down their competency for each of the six individual skills required to excel in Product Management

KYS score • 71

Their Performance

Top PMs

Average

Superpowers

Skills that make them stand out from the crowd.

Technical Understanding

They are good at

  • Communicate technical functionality to non-tech departments
  • Stronger working relationships with engineers
  • Better estimation of capability & time required for shipping a feature

Result Oriented

They are good at

  • Prioritise tasks that add most value for the time invested
  • Make the best use of available resources
  • Taking tasks to completion in the stipulated time

Skillwise breakdown

Based on their performance in the test, here is how they did in each of these skills

Product Sense

11

of 20

This is their blindspot

82% JD's mention this as a required skill for hiring PMs

How will this help?

  • Quickly understand the ‘Why’ driving user’s behaviour
  • Observe unmet user needs & motivations
  • Communicate insights to stakeholders & ideate solutions

Communication

11

of 15

This is their strength

74% JD's mention this as a required skill for hiring PMs

How will this help?

  • Get stakeholder buy-in for plans & projects
  • Align the team on common goals & shared perspectives

Technical Understanding

14

of 15

This is their strength

71% JD's mention this as a required skill for hiring PMs

How will this help?

  • Communicate technical functionality to non-engineering departments
  • Stronger working relationships with engineers
  • Better estimation of capability & time required for shipping a feature

Problem Solving

11

of 15

This is their strength

65% JD's mention this as a required skill for hiring PMs

How will this help?

  • Creatively think of solutions to new, never before solved problems
  • Match the right solution to a problem given the constraints of time and resources
  • Ability to make decisions to continue making progress

Data-Driven & Experimentative

14

of 20

This is their blindspot

47% JD's mention this as a required skill for hiring PMs

How will this help?

  • Data provides answers to who is your customer, why do they use your product & what they think about it
  • Make better tradeoffs between urgent & non-urgent tasks
  • Learn from tests faster with more confidence

Result Oriented

12

of 15

This is their strength

32% JD's mention this as a required skill for hiring PMs

How will this help?

  • Prioritise tasks that add the most value for the time invested
  • Make the best use of available resources
  • Taking tasks to completion within the stipulated time

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