KYS Report

Know Yourself Test

Snehankitha Maddineni

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 • 55

Their Performance

Top PMs

Average

Superpowers

Skills that make them stand out from the crowd.

Communication

They are good at

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

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

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

13

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

11

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

6

of 15

This is their blindspot

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

12

of 20

This is their strength

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

4

of 15

This is their blindspot

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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