career-growth_skill

Overview

This skill plans PM career growth using frameworks distilled from 40+ career episodes and Ami Vora's advancement strategies. It helps PMs map current level to target roles, identify concrete gaps, and build a 90-day promotion plan. Use it to prepare for promotions, navigate transitions, or choose between IC and management paths.

How this skill works

The skill inspects your current role across core dimensions: scope, complexity, independence, and leadership. It runs a promotion gap analysis that compares current vs target levels and produces prioritized actions: high-visibility projects, skill development, leadership opportunities, and evidence to present to managers. It outputs a promotion plan template with a 90-day action checklist and success metrics to track progress.

When to use it

• Planning a promotion or preparing a self-review
• Identifying skill gaps between current and target PM levels
• Deciding between individual contributor and management tracks
• Designing a 90-day plan to expand scope or impact
• Aligning career goals with your manager and stakeholders

Best practices

• Map target level expectations explicitly: scope, impact, skills, leadership
• Prioritize high-visibility work that demonstrates next-level responsibilities
• Create measurable success metrics and evidence for manager conversations
• Pair skill development with real projects to show applied competence
• Document wins regularly and collect feedback from peers and stakeholders

Example use cases

• Build a promotion plan: Associate PM → Senior PM with a 90-day action list
• Run a gap analysis to identify missing skills for a Staff/Principal role
• Choose between staying IC or moving into management by comparing leadership expectations
• Prepare a promotion case with impact metrics and documented evidence
• Design a development plan that combines courses, mentorship, and project work