Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Tweet This And while you technically don’t need permission to get started, at some point, you will need buy-in and support from your leadership. I have a mission of creating an organization that can execute on Hemnet’s vision and mission by creating value for all our customers in a way that supports business growth,” says Francesca.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

You employ the following artefacts: product vision and product strategy , business model and business case (if applicable), and KPIs. For example, I write in my book Strategize : “As the person in charge of the product, you should own the product strategy (…), and you should be empowered to have the final say on strategic decisions.” [5]

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

MAY 7, 2024

These titles may sound similar, but they encompass different levels of organizational expertise and leadership. Mentorship and Leadership: Guiding and developing the next generation of product leaders, providing mentorship, sharing insights, and fostering professional growth among junior product managers. Which one is right for you?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Soft skills, like communication or leadership , are more general and can be used in different contexts. Extensive market research is essential to assess the competitive landscape, identify opportunities, and shape the product vision. Book the demo! PMs need it to develop a compelling product vision and product strategy.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JULY 2, 2020

While interviewing a design candidate, I frequently ask about their preferred books on the subject of UI/UX or product design. It is not that those books are bad. Those books were an important step forward. And yes, these books were updated and re-edited, but their core remains pretty much the same). Why is that?

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

A four-layer framework to create a winning product strategy Today we are talking about creating product strategy. Bob is the author of the book Creative Strategy Generation. 11:03] How is senior leadership involved in product strategy? 14:24] Share your Strategy Generation framework for developing product strategy.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In part two of this summary, I am moving to talk about strategy and leadership insights. Today I will focus more on leadership and strategy. One thing Marty said in the workshop, however, made me quote this framework much more and use it when I help my customers understand where they should focus their energy.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 21, 2018

Lateral leadership describes the art of efficiently influencing others around you without formal authority. It is essential for succeeding in the implicit leadership position that product managers find themselves in. They also didn’t appreciate the importance that lateral leadership already had in their daily business life.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

UX vision is a clear and inspiring statement that guides the long-term design strategy and keeps teams and stakeholders on the same page. Next, conduct customer and market research to identify opportunities for UX improvement , and use research findings and business goals to formulate the UX vision statement. Book the demo!

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 12, 2023

A successful roadmap should include information on UX vision , strategy, goals, themes, milestones, and a timeline. Having identified the problems, use a framework like RICE or ICE to prioritize those that will make the biggest impact on user experience when solved. Book the demo! improving retention). What is a UX roadmap?

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 13, 2024

This article explores the fundamentals of portfolio management, its goals, and frameworks for structuring portfolios, and provides insights on aligning product innovation projects with organizational strategy. Innovation Landscape Model The innovation landscape model is another framework for structuring portfolios.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. They lack vision and lead nowhere. Strategic value is about aligning features with the company’s vision and long-term goals. Ready to dive in to learn more? What are the most acute ones?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

A project manager is focused on the completion of a specific project, whereas product managers focus primarily on the long-term vision and evolving a product to deliver value over time. Product teams need to have a combination of hard and soft skills to succeed: technical knowledge , communication, leadership, strategic thinking, and empathy.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Here’s what we learned about product leadership. Your first task as a leader is to set the vision of the team and make sure that the team is set up to deliver it. Another key function of product leadership is to drive collaboration with other parts of the business. Book suggestion: Product Leadership.

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Userpilot

JULY 23, 2023

Product Manager : Defines the product vision, roadmap , and features, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure the product meets customer needs and market demands. Use the SMART goal-setting framework to set and track targets from ideation to product launch. Create product vision and strategy.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

Examples of different prioritization frameworks. A product prioritization framework helps you maximize customer value and deliver the best ROI by encouraging methodical examination of data before making decisions. To see how Userpilot can help you make informed prioritization decisions, book the demo! Product vision.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 10, 2022

She cofounded the Radical Product Thinking movement of leaders creating vision-driven change, along with authoring the book Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter. My path to product leadership has been through entrepreneurship and product diseases. Building products is how you create change.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Through a combination of leadership buy-in, reading, and coaching, they committed to mapping opportunities and testing assumptions before jumping to solutions and found new ways to truly put their users first. This was the situation Sören Weber and the Search & Flow team at trivago found themselves in.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 13, 2021

For instance, the Design Career Index shows that 71% of design orgs don’t have a career progression framework. Invision’s Design Team Maturity Report and the book Org Design for Design Orgs also grounded us with visions of what healthy, high-performing teams can do. Problem: Many competencies we care about aren’t documented.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Strategy, vision, and influence for product managers. The four key competencies of product management are execution, product strategy, leadership, and leveraging customer insight. That comes with a framework of decision-making. 11:31] How do you communicate vision to those you work with? Strategy is a messy term.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

We analyzed dozens of job descriptions from leading companies (Airbnb, Amazon, Booking, eBay, Expedia, Instagram, Intercom, LinkedIn, Netflix, PayPal, Spotify, among others) and we were able to differentiate hundreds of distinct skills and responsibilities. Responsibilities and skills word clouds. Team execution and development.

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

As business advisors and executive coaches, we've worked with dozens of CEOs to help them build and grow their product leadership team as they scale their company. Getting external support, such as product management consulting, can help establish the product leadership team responsible for nurturing and guiding the product team.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Tanya shares her ideas for nurturing a strong product strategy from this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum. First up, the framework fanatics. The Framework Fanatics. The product discipline is overrun with processes and frameworks. Frameworks, rituals, and process are a guide – not the solution.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Is it possible to create a framework for non-data decision making to increase psychological safety? The CEO needs to focus on the vision, then agree with the product leadership what the key areas of focus will be in order to deliver that vision – or at least move the needle significantly towards it.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

As a staff engineer, a lot of your energy goes into cross-team collaboration for the vision and strategy. When I got into PHP, the framework that serious people used was called Zen framework. Nobody uses the Zen framework anymore, at least not for any new projects, but it’s great to see where PHP is right now.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. The series of choices following a framework = the product strategy. As I considered the merits of each possible option to build a user base, I weighed them against the product strategy framework, the pros/cons, coherence, and value. The north star was clear?—?enabling

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JULY 2, 2020

While interviewing a design candidate, I frequently ask about their preferred books on the subject of UI/UX or product design. It is not that those books are bad. Those books were an important step forward. And yes, these books were updated and re-edited, but their core remains pretty much the same). Why is that?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

I distilled the advice a few months ago in my book The Essentialist Product Manager and have recently been giving talks and workshops on the topic. The concepts were popularized in the book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown. According to his book, an “essentialist” lives by design, not by default.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Impact mapping is a collaborative strategic planning technique used by product managers, product owners , and senior technical leadership, who work mostly in Agile software delivery. Book the demo ! It became popular thanks to the 2012 Gojko Adzic book. The map will help you set the high-level vision. Ready to dive in?

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

In 2018, Perri published a popular book entitled “ Escaping the Build Trap : How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value ”. The book described the common tendency for organizations to focus on features instead of delivering true value for the users, and discussed: How not to turn into a feature factory.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 22, 2019

Creating a product vision of the future that’s awesome for everyone. At the time, he had recently co-authored the book, Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty. At the time, he had recently co-authored the book, Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

Every time I navigate the ocean of Product Management frameworks, we are not tackling one essential part of our role: People and Ourselves. There is a framework for almost every stage of our Product development lifecycle, but one of the only transversal things is that we need people to make things happen.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 20, 2019

I found Melissa Perri ’s new book, Escaping the Build Trap to be an excellent resource for understanding this connection. The company needs to have a clear vision and mission and a way to communicate these regularly to each employee. Vision and mission presentation at XING’s yearly kick-off event. Let’s start with the business.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

And she also happens to be writing a book (like me). I’m talking to Petra today because she has a book that’s coming out—hopefully by the end of the year—designed for new product leaders. And since it was such a small company, we were quick to experiment and I could try a lot of frameworks and methodologies and tools.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The Objectives and Key Results (OKR) framework helps organizations select goals (Objectives), milestones measuring progress (Key Results), and specific tasks (Initiatives). Product managers are responsible for the overall product vision and its alignment with the business objectives. How to set goals- frameworks for product managers.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

Let’s face it, most organizations have poor habits around roadmap completion — this is why getting leadership (or stakeholders) to develop consistent, stable and familiar routines reinforced through repetition and communication is valuable. Let’s dive deeper!

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

Dan Olsen Welcome to the Cynefin Framework We choose to use the Cynefin Framework to decide which path to take. The PM career path at XO and the ‘levels framework’ from the book ‘Org Design for Design Orgs’ (by far the best book I’ve read on UX management) were amazing and helpful resources.

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