Johanna Rothman

JULY 22, 2021

Worse, many of these managers also want business agility. Business agility requires change. I see strategy necessary at these management levels: Organizational strategy, to define the value the organization offers to the employees, customers, and other stakeholders. I'm going to call them all products.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Shakespeare, for example, 400 years earlier, finalized his plays only after watching them being performed and hearing the audience’s reactions; he committed to nothing within the confines of his studio. The Minimum Viable Product (MVP) idea is central to the lean / agile methodology Get feedback as soon as possible.

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Mixpanel

MAY 20, 2020

That’s why I developed a new model for product-led engagement based on building adaptive product teams that, by definition, adjust their actions and behaviors to the organizational context. Below, I’m sharing some guiding principles to help teams move away from a one-size-fits-all approach to product strategy.

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Modus Create

JUNE 30, 2021

Transformational CMOs Will Own Product Innovation. We had stated that in 2021, transformational CMOs would own product innovation and leverage omnichannel product strategies to not only understand how they fit in the marketplace but transform customer interactions for the better.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Conway’s Law is a great example of how organisational structure will affect the products we create: “Any organisation that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organisation’s communication structure.” These should be the basis of your product development technical practice.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. Inspired by Marty Cagan contains a little about everything in product management and is based on how the most successful tech companies in the world build products.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

The bounce rate is the percentage of users who visit a page on your product (for example, your home page) and then leave it before taking any primary action, such as registration or starting a free demo. Rafayel Mkrtchyan is a product management consultant who helps companies improve their product discovery and delivery processes.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

Mini-research means following agile and pragmatic research principles when time is limited and resources are scarce. Instead of analysing all user feedback, focus on identifying areas where competitors’ users are unhappy and your product has theoretical potential to outshine after improvements. In this example, competitive advantage.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

While I was deeply involved in the details of the product and as a perfectionist by nature wanted to control every little detail, I had to focus on more than just the product development to succeed. One of the first things I did, for example, was to work with the salespeople on how to sell the product.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

For example, take three deep breaths before answering a question from a difficult team member, or be firm but kind with the challenging stakeholder and communicate without any aversion or ill-will. Do regular research, attend trade shows and conferences, and consult journals, magazines, and user forums, for example.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 23, 2023

When one might be better-suited than another, and how to use them together for maximum long-term success Confused about Strategy, OKRs, & KPIs? As part of a large-scale Agile Transformation supported by one of the major global consultancies, I was coaching one particular program leader in OKRs.

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

Getting external support, such as product management consulting, can help establish the product leadership team responsible for nurturing and guiding the product team. What Is Product Management Consulting? Consulting doesn’t mean instructing a CEO and the product leadership team how to run the company.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 30, 2020

Topic: Covid19’s Impact On Your Product Strategy. But now many of us in product or development organizations are shifting attention to how this crisis changes priorities and product plans. Rich will talk through some examples of shifting needs and short-term crisis adjustments. Hosted by: Synerzip.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The developers on your product team, especially those steeped in agile software development approaches, may ask you how business outcomes relate to business value. This model from Marcus Hamrin , a Senior Product Manager at Spotify, can help you think a little deeper about the different types of value and hence business outcomes.

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Modus Create

MAY 12, 2022

In recent years, our consultants have helped several healthcare organizations shift their focus to preventive care and patient outcomes. So, the team kickstarted the project to develop a mobile application from scratch — from product strategy and CX to end-to-end development and release, all in six weeks. Why the Ishihara Test?

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ProductPlan

JULY 16, 2021

Product Manager’s Control of Employee Expectations. As a product manager, implementing an effective product strategy should remain a priority. For example, let’s say you have a disgruntled customer bugging you to add a new feature. The request falls within the domain of an associate product manager.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 4, 2020

Here are some examples to illustrate the process. Adobe’s example of using NPS with a qualitative question. Rafayel Mkrtchyan is a product management consultant who helps companies improve their product discovery and delivery processes. Contact him via contact@productguy.io.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

Making a choice does not always have to be hard How Product Managers and Leaders Can Reduce Complexity The principles of j?d? represent speed and agility. Frederick Taylor is by no means the best source of wisdom for modern product or innovation managers. Use design thinking in your data-driven strategy setting meetings.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 3, 2019

I started this series discussing the issue of the various product-based roles in an agile organization. I suggested a product value team because one person becomes a bottleneck. One person is unlikely to shepherd the strategy and the tactics for a product. Can Your Customer Be Your Product Owner?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 24, 2021

An example can be: “Eat healthier” After having a better understanding of our stakeholders and our customer problem to be solved we focus on understand better the current state: 1. It is a very helpful tool for Product Managers to segment markets when defining the product strategy and go-to-market strategy.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 19, 2018

Helping you make that move from product manager to product master is explored in this episode by considering: Various perspectives on product management, Responsibilities of the role, and. How Agile practices are impacting the role. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:34]

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

  (For fun, let’s call those things strategies.) ” And this is usually wrapped around an organizational ownership fistfight about who “owns” company-level strategy.     A good corporate strategy, wherever it comes from, is necessary for a good product strategy.

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Modus Create

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Transformational CMOs will own product innovation and leverage omnichannel product strategies to better understand how they fit in their marketplaces—and how they can transform those marketplaces for the better. Meanwhile, more consultants will collaborate with their clients on large-scale open source development projects.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

The importance of building products that customers valued and the limited amount of finances forced startups to take a different approach when building their products. New movements such as agile engineering and lean product management became the core philosophy of lots of successful startups around that time.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Before SoundCloud, Nicholas led product innovation at Lab1886/DaimlerX – the newly created Daimler Innovation Lab – as Chief Product Officer, drawing on his experience in product strategy, innovation management, big data, analytics and location intelligence to renew and expand Daimler’s product portfolio.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

In these cases, my observation is that the true failing was in the definition and communication of the strategy rather than than a cultural inability to execute. Through these failures, I’ve come up with a framework for defining, layering, and communicating an effective product strategy that can close the gap between strategy and execution.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Whereas in smaller teams, product managers don’t have much help. They’re in charge of driving the entire product management process themselves. Nevertheless, some core roles and responsibilities of a product manager are: Develop product strategy and vision. Gather and prioritize product requests.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 8, 2019

In an ideal agile world, the team would work directly with a customer. When you have a small product that serves maybe three types of customer (new, expert, admin for example), and that customer is down the figurative hall, you might not need any product people. That's the product value team.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Starting as a Product Designer, she then became Manager, Director and finally VP. Therefore, she provides a great example of a stable product management career path: staying within the company, and evolving both vertically and horizontally. Josh Fetcher is an author and business consultant. Check out her Medium profile !

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 12, 2019

Especially when we use agile approaches, we want to be close to our customer. Most of their customer information comes via a product owner, who learns from a product manager. Even if you have an agile product value team, the primary contact tends to be the product manager with the customer, not the team.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

so my investor said that I need a product manager to do our product roadmap?”. When I worked as a product management consultant clients would often talk about “needing a product roadmap ASAP”. If you’re only going to read one thing: Product Roadmaps Relaunched. Further Reading.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

You should therefore help the team acquire the relevant market and domain knowledge—for instance, by involving the team in research and validation work, inviting them to join you when you visit customers— and ensure that they are aware of the product strategy and product roadmap as well as the business goals and KPIs.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In Michael Porter’s books, or anywhere else, I haven’t been able to find many examples of what a strategy should look like. Here’s a proposal: open any book on strategy and go to the Index. Lookup “Strategy, an example of”. A product strategy can be covered in 4 parts (1) Buyer + $ value pool.

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BrainMates

APRIL 2, 2019

The core of our Product Manager roles is how value is exchanged. The over-focus on Agile rituals such as Standups, Sprint Planning and Retros has meant that we have forgotten the commercial aspects of our role. Some examples of leading indicators: Number of customer inquiries. Some examples of lagging indicators: Active users.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 13, 2022

” These examples explain the problem we're solving for the customers. Do you want your customers to offer feedback on the product or the strategy? Do you think your product strategy will change?). I'd rewrite “secure login” as “Secure customer data in search by creating a timeboxed login.”

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Atlassian, meanwhile, is very effective for agile software development teams. As a product leader, you should base knowledge-sharing on powerful stories with data that is shared in a concise and clear way. . These narratives will then shape the go-to-market strategy that your product marketing team creates.

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