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The Product Strategy Cycle

Roman Pichler

Traditionally, strategy and execution are often viewed as separate, sequential pieces of work that are carried out by different people. For example, a product manager might determine the product strategy and one or more development teams might be tasked with executing it. I call these outcomes product goals.

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Product management theater | Marty Cagan (Silicon Valley Product Group)

Lenny Rachitsky

He’s the author of two of the most foundational books for product teams and product leaders ( Inspired and Empowered ), he’s the founder of Silicon Valley Product Group (one of the longest-running product advisory groups), and he’s almost certainly worked with more product leaders and teams than any human alive.

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10 Tips for Creating an Agile Product Roadmap

Roman Pichler

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based. Learn More.

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Take Action: How to Align Product Strategy with Product Management

The Product Coalition

How I came to realize product strategy doesn’t exist in isolation “Two roads diverged in a wood and I?—?I So what exactly is product strategy? Why is it important if I have a solid product management team?” How I defined product strategy would define my professional career. your launch event.

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Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy

Intercom, Inc.

And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products. And you need to understand how the groups differ. The interesting thing is that when it comes to engineering, for example, we have Agile methodology.

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Product Teams in Scrum

Roman Pichler

Scrum is a popular agile framework. This team consists of a product owner , a Scrum Master , and several developers, which are also known as development team. Forming such a team connects the person in charge of the product—the product owner—with the people who design, architect, program, test, and document the solution—the developers.

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3 Empowerment Levels in Product Management

Roman Pichler

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]