Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

How do you create confidence in your product strategy with those that approve investment i.e. c-suite or board members? Unfortunately, without anything better, many product leaders rely on the product roadmap to demonstrate their strategy. This is often referred to as empowered product development teams.

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

At the heart of an organization that creates product magic is a product leader who is an expert at leadership and coalition building. These leaders understand that bringing effective products, solutions, and services to market requires consensus building and engaging cross-functional teams in the journey.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. It means that you’ll have to deal with people issues on a regular basis, help and support the individuals who are on your team, constructively address problems and offer advice.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

Collaboratively set goals , for example, user and business goals on the product strategy and product goals on the product roadmap. This starts by inviting them to a kick-of workshop for a brand-new product or a major product update and asking them to contribute to the product discovery and strategy validation work.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

You have to earn the necessary digital product management and lead skills and demonstrate them to potential employers with confidence. A product lead or the lead product manager is often an experienced senior professional who drives the product strategy, leading and supervising a product team.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

And until now, I never thought to share the view a product leader has on roadmaps — at least publicly. I want to help you if you are new to product leadership -or- if you work for a product leader who doesn’t always communicate expectations, leaving you wondering what went wrong. Why share now?

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ProductPlan

JULY 13, 2020

As organizations grow and expand, keeping stakeholders and employees on the same page to drive alignment with your product strategy can be a big challenge. That’s because growth often brings culture shifts, new offices in different locations, and new hires with the different product vision. 5 Strategies for Driving Alignment.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

That’s how budgets were constructed up until this year. We shifted from functional and feature budgeting to portfolio and product budgeting. Our commitment was firm, leadership backed the change, and it was underway. Once optimized, it’s critical to tie the outcome back to the company’s strategy and objectives.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Additionally, involve the development team in the product backlog work and teach people how to formulate and refine user stories. But in the long run, it will reward you with a more autonomous and motivated team, and more time to take care of product strategy and discovery. This may increase your workload initially.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Here are the steps you can take to land a job as a startup product manager without any prior experience. Familiarize yourself with business principles, market strategies, and product creation. Learn product management frameworks, procedures, and methodologies. Find out how to make better decisions using product metrics.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Up until now, Product Leaders have had to rely on the approaches and frameworks designed specifically for Product Managers or use generic leadership practices which don’t necessarily cover the unique leadership challenges Product Leaders experience. This is a mistake, particularly if you are new to leadership.

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Tyner Blain

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

.’ This is the reason the problem statement template distinctly calls out “Affects…” as a field, versus relying on product people to mention who is affected when describing the problem itself. Imagine road construction on your commute to work in the morning. This is a big deal.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

In practical terms, involve stakeholders and dev teams in decisions that affect the product strategy and the product roadmap —be it that you create the plans or that you make bigger changes to them. To make things worse, it’s not clear who has the final say on product strategy changes. Use a Dedicated Facilitator.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Those same top-performing product organizations are also the ones that have successfully replaced reactive decision-making with a coherent strategy for achieving their product vision. Be incredibly rigorous in how you approach building products. Product vision and strategy lies at the heart of every great team !

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Provide constructive feedback and share your concerns. This will not only lead to better technical decisions and a better product. It also eases your workload: understanding the bigger picture allows the team to help create user stories and to support you in managing the product backlog. Be honest and open. Learn More.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Up until now, Product Leaders have had to rely on the approaches and frameworks designed specifically for Product Managers or use generic leadership practices which don’t necessarily cover the unique leadership challenges Product Leaders experience. This is a mistake, particularly if you are new to leadership.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

Here are four sets of challenges that are different from managing individual products: [1] Designing, Building, and Nurturing a Product Team. [2] 2] Driving Strategy, Tooling and Outcomes. [3] 1] Designing, Building, and Nurturing a Product Team. See Melissa Perri’s product kata ). Hiring strategy.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Her exposure to the product team —and the departure of a previous product manager—sparked Lisa’s interest and led to her stepping into the product manager role right around the time that Teresa began working with the product team as a discovery coach. It can also get leadership buy-in to where a team is heading overall.”–

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Product managers play an important role in steering leadership to evolve the product strategy and corresponding tactics. These strategies are designed to garner upside benefits. Product managers must deal with dozens of well-intentioned product requests from fellow team members.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 6, 2023

Pete, the marketer, agreed to rework the marketing strategy to support the next major release. Cindy who helps you manage the product started to come late to meetings. Cindy who helps you manage the product started to come late to meetings. This allows you to get better at offering constructive feedback in the future.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

Isn’t it better to spend time and money on getting the product into production? Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat." - Sun Tzu. To avoid failure, you need to be asking these significant questions: Exactly what product will sell?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 28, 2019

Today’s article is all about product management turnover, what causes it, and how to prevent it. When a product manager exits, it can derail major aspects of your product strategy due to their integral role and unique perspective on things. Are you providing constructive feedback and praise? The manager.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

A product manager is the CRO (chief repeating officer) One of the main responsibilities as a product manager is the never-ending and difficult task of building a shared understanding of the product strategy through listening, influencing, and repetition. Those strategies should cover different areas of the product.

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Bain Public

APRIL 15, 2018

And as a product leader gets more senior, the need to clearly define the product strategy intensifies. In Alpha’s Product Management Insights study of more than 150 digital product managers, 32% percent said that their biggest wish in the coming year was a clearer product roadmap / strategy.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Many times along the way you will learn that the value you thought they needed isn’t what they really need and that even if it is your product doesn’t truly deliver it the right way. Other than crystalizing your assumptions and strategy, this stage is about results. And the best evidence is happy, paying customers.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 26, 2017

A lot of product management is meeting customers and prospects where they are : finding language and benefits and arguments that resonate with an audience. The same applies here: we might try finance analogies to explain product strategy concepts. So we engage constructively by reaching people where they are.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

I’ll walk you through a few strategies I’ve found work well for turning a greenfield project into a successful product. The term greenfield gets its name from the construction industry. Nobody knows your product is on the way. Education is a critical component of thought leadership. What Is a Greenfield Project?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

In practical terms, involve stakeholders and dev teams in decisions that affect the product strategy and the product roadmap —be it that you create the plans or that you make bigger changes to them. To make things worse, it’s not clear who has the final say on product strategy changes. Use a Dedicated Facilitator.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2018

The graph below shows the most common teams that are granted access to the roadmap: Generally, your Product and Dev teams will use it the most, to keep everyone aligned and aware of what is coming next. Settle on a product strategy and figure out your goal. Construct your roadmap.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2022

RAD brings together our Product Research and Product Analytics (aka Data Science) teams into a single org with the mission of driving effective, evidence-based decisions. . “We Leadership. Leadership . Five essential skill sets of Research and Data Science managers: Leadership. Business strategy.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Many CEOs tell me that they (personally) are the best-informed people within their companies about what customers need , and they (personally) are best positioned to drive decisions on product priorities. How would you evaluate such a salesperson?]. [3] 3] “As a former user/subject expert, I know what customers want.”.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

A release is a chunk of work that introduces something new to the product that will be of interest for your users. When you’re constructing your roadmap, you should already be thinking about how you want to bundle tasks into releases and how those releases are communicated to your users. That requires a bit of forward planning.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

Different ways of thinking in the workplace Working with somebody that sees things in a very different way than you do must be taken as a constructive challenge, not as an issue. This gives to the Product Manager the ability to understand both designers’ and team’s expectations and coordinate activities towards a common goal.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 31, 2021

Part 2 of Becoming a Product Leader Product Leaders drive impact for the business by taking on complex initiatives and defining strategy across multiple teams. This is Part 2 of the “ Becoming a Product Leader ” series. Within Autodesk Construction Solutions (ACS), PMs are responsible for their individual product areas.

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Here we look at the skills every successful product manager needs in order to conquer the changing landscape. A product is no different from a well-constructed story. As Andrew Chen, Head of Rider Growth at Uber points out, products need “ consistency and cohesion.” Editorial mindset.

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svpg

JULY 15, 2016

I’ve explained that the context typically needs to be the product vision, and a specific set of outcome-based objectives for each team (OKR’s are an effective way to do that). Product Vision. The product vision describes the future we are trying to create, typically somewhere between 2 and 5 years out.

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