First Round Review

MARCH 8, 2022

Ravi Mehta, former CPO at Tinder & Product Exec at TripAdvisor, shares his framework for crafting a crisp product strategy for startups — a 5-step system called the "Product Strategy Stack." He also makes the case for setting "non-goals" and using an alternative to OKRs.

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Gainsight

MARCH 20, 2023

By Tim Van Lew, Director of Customer Success Strategy, Gainsight Yes, it’s uncommon to see a year-in-review article in spring. They may experience limitations on the effectiveness of integrations with critical systems like CRM. Maligned systems and processes with Sales can mean lost opportunities for expansion revenue.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 16, 2022

What if you knew that not all goal-setting frameworks are beneficial to your team? There are a plethora of goal-setting frameworks out there. But choosing a framework is easier said than done. Let’s dive into this article to find the perfect goal-setting framework to grow your product. Tiered goals framework.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

Sustainability Spans The Entire Lifecycle Whether you are already a champion of green computing or are just beginning to grasp its significance due to the evolving client and regulatory landscapes, understanding and actively reducing the carbon footprint of our software creations is not just important — it’s imperative.

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Sachin Rekhi

APRIL 12, 2020

Beyond product/market fit, it turns out business strategy really does matter. A sound strategy can make the difference between our initial product/market fit being ephemeral versus the beginning of a meaningful and lasting business. He then further refined his concepts as a business strategy professor at Stanford University.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

This is due to the very process by which the roadmap is developed. Others leverage a prioritization framework like RICE to prioritize their initiatives. Or take OKRs, a common goal setting framework used by many product teams. We also introduce a stakeholder framework that helps you get the buy-in you need to drive impact.

Technical Review 166

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Split

MARCH 20, 2024

Why Release Management Matters A robust release management strategy is critical for optimizing a software delivery workflow. With established release review procedures, code progresses to staging and production only after passing predefined quality checks and acceptance tests.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). I admit that in the past, I have been soured on “strategy” as a discipline.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 28, 2020

They have a number of strategic benefits… They deliver high quality and service due to the importance of the relationship to both organisations. Partnership Framework How to create effective partnerships The following is a list of principles to supplement standard procurement practices (RFPs, due dil, legals, supplier evaluations etc.).

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

How is SaaS Product Management the Central Nervous System to Product-Led Growth? The product life cycle requires research, strategy, internal company alignment, product development, and consistent product refinement. SaaS product management requires extensive strategy in order to execute on hypotheses or defined product initiatives.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 12, 2021

These are program sense, cross-functional partnerships, behavioral, and system design questions. Of the four, many find the system design questions to be both the most challenging and the most significant for your chances of an offer. So what is system design after all? What is System Design? Let's get to it!

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 11, 2019

With your support, we dove into the most result-driven strategies, popular frameworks, and groundbreaking leaders who changed the product management landscape. And now product managers are communicating the strategy using data-driven roadmaps. Employing Blended Frameworks. Companies define the metrics that matter.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Growth loops are a compounding growth strategy where the user fuels future growth by reinvesting their outputs into new inputs for the next growth cycle. The Pirate Metrics Framework organizes the traditional funnel into five stages in the customer journey: Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, and Revenue ( AARRR ).

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Software Development Life Cycle provides a practical framework you can apply to your product and improve your processes. Version Control and Collaboration Use version control systems to track changes and collaborate effectively. System Testing Test end-to-end scenarios to ensure the software functions as a whole.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2022

Let’s discuss frameworks and successful strategists in order to optimize our capabilities to get sh!t Execution is strategy’s less sexy, but equally important conjoined twin; it is the yin to strategy’s yang; neither can survive without the other. This is a problem because strategies are worthless without action.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 18, 2018

If you haven’t found the right objective goal-setting framework for setting roadmap priorities, consider Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). The OKR framework was popularized by Google, which attributes much of its success to this goal-setting model. What is the OKR framework? Objective: Increase Quorum user base.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Why this Industry The finance industry presents a compelling opportunity for designing applications due to the significant and widespread challenges outlined in the problem statement. Swift data analysis ensures timely adjustments to my portfolio, adapting wealth strategies dynamically, and optimizing tax planning.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

Figure 1: FRAMEWORK OF METHODS TO CAPTURE AND DEFINE PRODUCT FEATURES. Prototypes can be more compelling during internal progress reviews, user feedback sessions, or meetings to gain executive support for new initiatives because they are much closer to the finished product than written descriptions. Choosing the Right Method.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Once we have this alignment, the partners must carve out a strategy to reach the goals. That brings us to some fundamental questions – How do we outline a strategy? Do product companies conduct due diligence to understand their channel partners before seeking alignment? Current Strategy vs Future Direction.

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BrainMates

MAY 28, 2019

SnapComms adopted Brainmates’ Product Management framework to facilitate a market-driven way of thinking company-wide, and to equip their Product Team with a repeatable process to take the most valuable ideas to market fast. The 10 steps we followed to embed the Product Management framework. Where do you start? What matters most?

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Agile Velocity

MAY 3, 2024

Business agility encompasses aspects such as product innovation, customer-centricity, cross-functional collaboration, and adaptive strategy execution. Siloed transformation efforts at the team level can result in suboptimal outcomes and fail to address systemic issues that hinder agility at the organizational level.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 23, 2019

Each of these three elements serves an important purpose, but by looking at strategy from only a product-centric view, you are unlikely to be able to make an impact on the larger business. In this blended product and business model framework: What is desirability? The product is simply a resource in service of the business model.

Technical Review 161

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Split

JULY 27, 2023

This allows you to fine-tune your feature toggle strategy, enabling you to react quickly to customer feedback or changing market dynamics without having to wait for an external solution. Another advantage is cost savings. Finally, homegrown feature toggle solutions allow for greater flexibility in terms of scalability and reliability.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The range of work we do as product managers is so broad that we inevitably end up finding inspiration from all sorts of sources, whether it’s books on business strategy or essays on design. We have a number of repetitive System 1 tasks that we need to do every week, such as triaging email, updating reports, and facilitating team meetings.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Often, this is due to resource constraints rather than a lack of understanding of a PM role. As you climb the ladder, primarily the focus changes from solution and execution to strategy. There are many frameworks available on building products and the approach varies individual to individual. Product Strategy.

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Userpilot

MARCH 2, 2022

OKRs, commonly known as Objectives and Key Results, is a framework used to set, implement, and monitor progress towards goals. To grade OKRs, use a scoring system on a scale of 0.0 To implement your OKR strategy, you should follow 5 steps: set vision, choose OKRs, review OKRs progress, create feedback loops, and make reports.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 28, 2023

What product managers need to know about the Decision Sprint framework for faster problem-solving Today we are talking about faster problem-solving to speed innovation by using a three-part framework including Exploration, Alignment, and Decision-Making. We assign people to answer and review questions. Our guest is Atif Rafiq.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

TL;DR Targeted email marketing is a strategy focusing on sending personalized emails to segments of your audience based on their unique characteristics and behaviors. Integrate data with the email marketing tool : Ensure your platform integrates well with other systems for up-to-date user data. Geographic segmentation with Userpilot.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 6, 2020

What’s our strategy? The situation is challenging for sure, but we’ve put a strategy in place that will help us not just cope, but flourish (as we know every challenge is also an opportunity in disguise). We ask you to keep calm and to follow the plans you are given diligently. What strategy should you use then?

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

TL;DR Product strategy tools assist product teams in defining, creating, and executing product strategies aligned with business objectives and user needs. Product strategy tools Product strategy tools are software solutions designed to assist product teams in defining, creating, and executing their product strategy.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 9, 2024

Instead, I believe that AI will have the most profound impact on the high-level (and historically most valued) skills of product management: developing a strategy, crafting a vision, identifying new opportunities, and setting goals. That sounds a lot like a tool that would be incredibly good at identifying a clever strategy.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

One of the challenges we've long acknowledged in the tech industry is how difficult the transition can be from a software engineer to an engineering manager due to the vast distinction in the skill set to be great at the new role. Shift your individual focus from design and execution to vision and strategy. a product leader.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Often, other functions such as Marketing and Sales also use experimentation to identify target segments, optimize campaign performance and trial pricing strategies. Many companies, in fact, set up cross functional experimentation teams and use the test and learn mentality as their business transformation strategy.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2021

At its most basic level, a customer-led product strategy means that your customers are the top priority at all times. Any time you launch a new idea, a new product, or a new system, ask yourself the following questions: #1 Who will this serve? #2 Sounds pretty obvious, right? Putting Customers First. Making a Plan. Making it Personal.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

It’s even harder if you don’t know all of the armies on the field, their strategies and weapons, or even who’s a friend and who’s a foe. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. Frameworks like Ruby on Rails, Node, Angular, Ember, React etc.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2021

Decide on the SaaS model, product strategy, and the pricing strategy Formulate your strategy before undertaking software development. Non-functional requirements (NFRs): These describe how well the system should perform and not what it does. This pattern helps to create scalable and extensible software systems.

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CardBoard

OCTOBER 6, 2023

It’s a practical, hands-on framework that’s designed to make your role as a product owner more manageable and more effective. It’s a moment of high collaboration, strategy, and quick decision-making. Agile is like the operating system on your smartphone. That’s where Scrum comes in.

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