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Product Strategy as a System

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] A Product Strategy System The product strategy system in Figure 1 consists of four main parts: people, processes, principles, and tools. Having said this, the system in Figure 1 captures the specific product strategy approach Ive created. [1]

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A Decade of Product Management

Melissa Perri

I've been reflecting on the last decade in Product Management. Not every company has seen all these changes, but by and large I think it's been a positive push forward and I'm proud of where we've come from and where we have gotten to. -- 2014: "I do not need Product Managers, I can run my company myself,I have the strategy."

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An Introduction to Product Discovery

Product Talk

I continue to be surprised by how many product managers aren’t familiar with dual-track development. I don’t care if you know the buzzwords or if you can define the difference between product discovery and product delivery. The Lean Startup came out in 2011. As does user research and customer development.

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What we learned moving sales and product upmarket together

Intercom, Inc.

As Intercom’s customer base moved upmarket, it became increasingly obvious to us in Sales that what worked well in our product for early-stage startups didn’t for larger companies. To fix it, we had to change how we worked with our product team. Trial and error: adding sales input to the product roadmap.

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Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Leading to Failure

The Product Coalition

TL; DR: Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. However, Scrum is equally well suited to build the wrong product efficiently as its Achilles heel has always been the product discovery part. Participation is free.)

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From marketplace to SaaS business: How Udemy acquired 80% of the Fortune 100

Intercom, Inc.

It might be the same core product, but it’s a completely different strategy. In 2019 research firm IDC found them to deliver 869% ROI (??) along with time savings and higher productivity. When Yvonne joined in 2016, the business unit consisted of just 10 people across product, engineering, sales, and marketing.

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TEI 220: What makes a good product manager & who shouldn’t be one – with Marc Abraham

Product Innovation Educators

It’s all about creativity, curiosity, and customer focus for product managers. Several Everyday Innovators have asked, “What are the qualities of a good product manager?” One listener put this in a different light and asked who should not be a product manager. 2:35] How did you get into product management?