A reference, drawn as a map.
ProductEngineer.pro is a general reference for product engineering. Every territory, capability and skill has a short description, a few resources worth the time, and the tools people use for it.
Three levels
01The atlas has 10 territories, plus a group of cross-cutting capabilities. Under them sit72 capabilities and 347 skills. Each skill is one tile on the map and has one home; when it matters elsewhere, other pages link to it instead of repeating it.
The taxonomy is a proposed framework, not an industry certification. Not every skill needs the same depth: a product engineer should do the core work independently, make informed decisions in the wider areas, and go deep selectively.
Codes such as 06.4.5 read territory, capability, skill. They follow the order of the taxonomy and are there to help you find your way. Links use permanent ids, so a renamed skill keeps its old address.
How resources are chosen
02- 01Written or recorded by practitioners or recognised sources, and the primary source over a summary of it.
- 02Free to read or watch. A paid book or course appears only when it is the standard reference, and is marked as paid.
- 03Still accurate, in English, and dated.
- 04No link is written from memory. Each one is opened and checked before it is saved, and a link checker re-runs every week.
- 05Tools: widely used ones, with an open-source or free option where one exists. No affiliate links.
- 06Two good links beat a full quota, so some topics have fewer.
Your progress and privacy
03You can mark each skill as learning or comfortable. That status is stored only in your browser. There is no account and nothing is sent to a server. Export a file from your map to keep a copy.
Page analytics, when enabled, are cookieless and collect no personal data. Videos load from YouTube only when you press play.
A link can light any set of skills and join them with a route, for exampleuser interviews to funnels. It shows which parts of the discipline a piece of work exercised. Later versions will light the map from experiments run on real products.