Career Overlap Transition record
RecordMove

ICT business analyst to ICT product manager

An ICT business analyst already meets 17% of what the ICT product manager role asks for. The move turns on 19 required skills not yet in the profile.

Fig. 1 · Skill transfer ESCO v1.2.1 · directional
From ICT business analyst
17 % overlap
Distant match
To ICT product manager
8 You already bring
19 Still to learn
50 Skills in the target role2
Learning distance A rebuild

84.3/ 100

1 How much of what an ICT product manager is expected to do is already part of an ICT business analyst’s work. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs, because moving into a speciality is not the same problem as moving out of one. 2 Every skill the ICT product manager role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.

Why

Why this move works

An ICT product manager role treats 4 of its required skills as things an ICT business analyst already does. You would walk in with these on day one.

  • ICT market
  • define technical requirements
  • provide cost benefit analysis reports
  • systems development life-cycle

What stands in the way is 19 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 8 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. An ICT product manager role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of an ICT business analyst background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held interact with users to gather requirements communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held ICT market business, administration and law
  • already held innovation processes business, administration and law
  • already held business process modelling business, administration and law
  • already held digital systems information and communication technologies (icts)
  • already held systems development life-cycle information and communication technologies (icts)

All 8 carried skills, including the 4 the ICT product manager role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you may need to learn

The 42 missing skills fall into 7 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered in the order worth working in. Areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the optional ones. Nothing here is a verdict on you: it is a list of what this particular job asks for that your current one does not.

Skill to pick up Tier
01 management skills 7 required
  • still to learn assess ICT knowledge required
  • still to learn define technology strategy required
  • still to learn perform product planning required
  • still to learn create project specifications required
  • still to learn manage budgets required
  • still to learn manage schedule of tasks required
  • still to learn plan product management required
02 information skills 4 required
  • still to learn conduct impact evaluation of ICT processes on business required
  • still to learn monitor technology trends required
  • still to learn perform market research required
  • still to learn perform risk analysis required
03 information and communication technologies (icts) 3 required, 15 supplementary
  • still to learn ICT software specifications required
  • still to learn ICT system user requirements required
  • still to learn ICT hardware specifications required
  • optional, not held Agile development optional
  • optional, not held DevOps optional
  • optional, not held ICT process quality models optional
  • optional, not held Open source model optional
  • optional, not held Outsourcing model optional
  • optional, not held Prototyping development optional
  • optional, not held Rapid application development optional
  • optional, not held Spiral development optional
  • optional, not held Waterfall development optional
  • optional, not held hybrid model optional
  • optional, not held incremental development optional
  • optional, not held iterative development optional
  • optional, not held service-oriented modelling optional
  • optional, not held software design methodologies optional
  • optional, not held trading software optional
04 business, administration and law 3 required, 5 supplementary
  • still to learn cost management required
  • still to learn product comprehension required
  • still to learn advertising techniques required
  • optional, not held ICT project management optional
  • optional, not held ICT quality policy optional
  • optional, not held ICT sales methodologies optional
  • optional, not held ICT security legislation optional
  • optional, not held quality standards optional
05 communication, collaboration and creativity 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • still to learn manage contracts required
  • optional, not held manage localisation optional
06 engineering, manufacturing and construction 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • still to learn ICT infrastructure required
  • optional, not held engineering processes optional

1 further area in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries an ICT product manager role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 8 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held ICT market knowledge
  • already held define technical requirements skill
  • already held provide cost benefit analysis reports skill
  • already held systems development life-cycle knowledge
  • already held business process modelling knowledge
  • already held digital systems knowledge
  • already held innovation processes knowledge
  • already held interact with users to gather requirements skill
The 1 learning area not shown above
Skill to pick up Tier
07 working with computers 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held perform online data analysis optional
23 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to pick up Tier
  • optional, not held Agile development optional
  • optional, not held DevOps optional
  • optional, not held ICT process quality models optional
  • optional, not held ICT project management optional
  • optional, not held ICT quality policy optional
  • optional, not held ICT sales methodologies optional
  • optional, not held ICT security legislation optional
  • optional, not held Open source model optional
  • optional, not held Outsourcing model optional
  • optional, not held Prototyping development optional
  • optional, not held Rapid application development optional
  • optional, not held Spiral development optional
  • optional, not held Waterfall development optional
  • optional, not held engineering processes optional
  • optional, not held hybrid model optional
  • optional, not held incremental development optional
  • optional, not held iterative development optional
  • optional, not held service-oriented modelling optional
  • optional, not held software design methodologies optional
  • optional, not held trading software optional
  • optional, not held manage localisation optional
  • optional, not held perform online data analysis optional
  • optional, not held quality standards optional
29 held skills the ICT product manager role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role analyse business processes skill
  • not needed by the target role analyse business requirements skill
  • not needed by the target role analyse the context of an organisation skill
  • not needed by the target role apply change management skill
  • not needed by the target role business ICT systems knowledge
  • not needed by the target role business intelligence knowledge
  • not needed by the target role business requirements techniques knowledge
  • not needed by the target role business strategy concepts knowledge
  • not needed by the target role cloud technologies knowledge
  • not needed by the target role create business process models skill
  • not needed by the target role decision support systems knowledge
  • not needed by the target role design process skill
  • not needed by the target role execute analytical mathematical calculations skill
  • not needed by the target role identify customer requirements skill
  • not needed by the target role identify legal requirements skill
  • not needed by the target role implement strategic planning skill
  • not needed by the target role information architecture knowledge
  • not needed by the target role information categorisation knowledge
  • not needed by the target role information extraction knowledge
  • not needed by the target role internal risk management policy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role legal requirements of ICT products knowledge
  • not needed by the target role manage ICT project skill
  • not needed by the target role organisational resilience knowledge
  • not needed by the target role product usage risks analysis knowledge
  • not needed by the target role propose ICT solutions to business problems skill
  • not needed by the target role provide user documentation skill
  • not needed by the target role translate requirements into visual design skill
  • not needed by the target role unstructured data knowledge
  • not needed by the target role visual presentation techniques knowledge
28 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to pick up Tier
  • still to learn ICT infrastructure required
  • still to learn ICT software specifications required
  • still to learn ICT system user requirements required
  • still to learn cost management required
  • still to learn product comprehension required
  • still to learn ICT hardware specifications required
  • still to learn advertising techniques required
  • optional, not held Agile development optional
  • optional, not held DevOps optional
  • optional, not held ICT process quality models optional
  • optional, not held ICT project management optional
  • optional, not held ICT quality policy optional
  • optional, not held ICT sales methodologies optional
  • optional, not held ICT security legislation optional
  • optional, not held Open source model optional
  • optional, not held Outsourcing model optional
  • optional, not held Prototyping development optional
  • optional, not held Rapid application development optional
  • optional, not held Spiral development optional
  • optional, not held Waterfall development optional
  • optional, not held engineering processes optional
  • optional, not held hybrid model optional
  • optional, not held incremental development optional
  • optional, not held iterative development optional
  • optional, not held service-oriented modelling optional
  • optional, not held software design methodologies optional
  • optional, not held trading software optional
  • optional, not held quality standards optional
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FAQ

Common questions about this move

Can an ICT business analyst become an ICT product manager?

Yes, and it is a career change move. An ICT business analyst already covers 17% of what an ICT product manager is expected to do: 8 skills carry over, 4 of which the ICT product manager role treats as required.

What skills does an ICT business analyst need to become an ICT product manager?

19 required skills are missing, plus 23 optional ones. They fall into 7 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by management skills. The single most important is ICT infrastructure.

How hard is the move from ICT business analyst to ICT product manager?

Its learning distance is 84.3 out of 100, which is the career change band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.

Note

How this record was compiled

Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.