Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

Expanding on a recent post ( Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies ), I’ve been seeing lots of maker teams (product, engineering, design) struggling to form product strategies without a company strategy to hang them on.    We can’t build a sensible product strategy in a vacuum. 

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 29, 2020

A product marketer acquaintance of mine – Mukul – recently asked for some advice on his product positioning. The very first thing I did was ask him about his process – what work had gone into his positioning decisions.

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ProductBoard

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A product strategy is a carefully considered plan to best position how a product or service is developed and marketed. Aligning all three allows the product team and other stakeholders to make more customer-focused decisions.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. Here is how it works.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. Here is how it works.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The Eight Core Elements of a Winning Product Strategy “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”?—?Michael After what seemed like months of work, our product was emerging from stealth mode. No choices = no product strategy. The series of choices following a framework = the product strategy.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Why a Product Strategy Process Matters. An effective product strategy process should ensure that a valid product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are always available—that a shared and valid approach to achieving product success is available at anytime, as the picture below illustrates.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Hold Regular Product Strategy Reviews. A product strategy , like any other plan, is subject to change. How changeable your strategy is, depends on your product’s life cycle stage. As long as your product hasn’t reached product-market fit, the strategy is usually volatile.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 7, 2019

Positioning, while classically considered part of the marketing world, is absolutely essential for every product manager to understand. Positioning refers to the place that a brand occupies in the minds of customers and its perceived differentiation from its competitors.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 27, 2021

How to differentiate and build a competitive advantage that you can sustain and defend over time Photo by Pavel Danilyuk from Pexels Creating your product strategy is hard work. Focus and Positioning: A different type of prioritization Selecting is not about prioritization frameworks or ROI calculations.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Jack Welch Product strategists = coaches You, as the product strategist, are the coach. The product strategy acts as the playbook for the team, taking them to victory. Products without a product strategist are like athletes without a coach, wandering campus unable to find the gym, let alone execute a successful practice.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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Department of Product

JULY 29, 2022

Product Positioning for Product Managers Why an understanding of how your product is positioned is critical A key responsibility for Product Managers is to define how their products are positioned in the market. This is the result of unique product positioning.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

A strong product strategy is often neglected because of the absence of any strategic thinking in product teams. What can product managers do to make sure they give their product strategy the attention it warrants? But today many, if not most, product teams fail this very first test. Sound familiar?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Shipping product to 500 million users without knowing what strategy was? Sam Odio found himself in this position early in his career while working at Facebook Photos. How to create a good strategy. When you look at different frameworks for defining a product strategy there are so many possible definitions.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products. If you want to be excellent, if you really want to pursue the craft, and if you want to master product management, how would it look like?

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

5 Steps to Product Strategy. As product management evolves into a critical strategic function in organisations, its effectiveness in driving both customer and business value will increasingly depend on – and be influenced by – people outside the product team. This is where a well-defined product strategy comes in handy.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

What you can do to create a differentiated product Continue reading on Product Coalition »

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BrainMates

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Product positioning is an important part of a product marketing strategy. It helps buyers and users understand where a product ‘fits’ in terms of what it offers and how it compares with competing products so that they can select the product that will best serve their needs. Updated December, 2019.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The roadmap guides and informs everyone involved with the product from ideation to market. Using Your Product Strategy and Product Vision to Plan Your Roadmap. Product strategies must be rooted in the overall vision of the company and product. This ensures organizational alignment and support.

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Innovatemap

JUNE 27, 2023

But before any product can go to market, you must define your positioning. Our product managers helped teachers define their: Positioning — who’s this product for and why does it matter? Our daily mission at Innovatemap is to help leaders achieve their product visions. “If

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280 Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The Role of a Product Manager Product Managers serve as linchpins within any organization, responsible for steering products from conceptualization to market success. The job market presents a wealth of opportunities, as a cursory search on LinkedIn yields over 200,000 open positions.

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280 Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The Role of a Product Manager Product Managers serve as linchpins within any organization, responsible for steering products from conceptualization to market success. The job market presents a wealth of opportunities, as a cursory search on LinkedIn yields over 200,000 open positions.

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Pragmatic Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Patrick Cuttica , the public-held company's director of product marketing, discussed scaling and positioning a product market team , especially in a growing organization, during an AMA that originally appeared on Sharebird —the place to see how people at top companies do product marketing.

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Pragmatic Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Patrick Cuttica , the privately-held company's director of product marketing, discussed scaling and positioning a product market team , especially in a growing organization, during an AMA that originally appeared on Sharebird —the place to see how people at top companies do product marketing.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 7, 2020

People who do this well are not only great at strategy and would make sharp executives, but also tend to ace Product Strategy interviews like the one in Google’s Product Management Interviews (for Facebook’s Product Sense interviews, read How to 10x Your Product Intuition ). How can Tesla sell more cars?

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280 Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The Role of a Product Manager Product Managers serve as linchpins within any organization, responsible for steering products from conceptualization to market success. The job market presents a wealth of opportunities, as a cursory search on LinkedIn yields over 200,000 open positions.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. 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).

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Amplitude

MARCH 9, 2021

Building and executing a product strategy is difficult, to say the least. Forty-five percent of all products fail to launch on time, while 20% of that number fail to meet internal targets. The key to overcoming those statistics is the expectations that your team places upon your product strategy itself.

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Amplitude

JULY 29, 2020

When it comes to product strategy, there is so much conflicting advice that getting started can be confusing. Some companies’ strategies are so generic that they could mean anything, or nothing at all—as perfectly illustrated in this product strategy madlibs , which fills in the blanks with buzzwords and jargon and calls it a strategy.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

How to Achieve Success in Your Product Strategy In today’s rapidly evolving market, having a clear product vision and a well-defined strategy is essential for the success of any tech product. A compelling product vision is a guiding light, providing direction and purpose to the development process.

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BrainMates

MARCH 11, 2020

Your Product strategy is the most important long-term document you ever create for a Product. It helps you imagine the future of your Product. But before you can craft your Product strategy you need to know — what’s going on? What are the emerging technologies that will help improve your Product?

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

An inspiring vision creates a meaningful purpose for everyone involved in making the product a success including the stakeholders and development team members. It helps people understand how their work relates to a bigger whole and how their efforts create a positive change.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

But it has the following three drawbacks: A feature-based roadmap can give rise to and strengthen a feature-factory mindset where adding features is more important than creating value and making a positive impact on people’s lives and the business. Decline stakeholder requests if they aren’t aligned with the product strategy.

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280 Group

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In this post, we’ll share the latest Product Manager salary information from Salary.com and how Product Managers can set themselves up for success in 2022 and beyond. . What Is a Product Manager? . Simply put, Product Managers are responsible for overseeing product development from conception to completion.

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Dear Strategy

OCTOBER 1, 2021

On this episode of Dear Strategy, we talk about the difference between a product strategy and a go-to-market plan, and why it’s important to have both of these key planning tools working together in harmony. If you’re interested in strategy training or coaching for your business, please visit us at Strategy Generation Company.

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