The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In this series, I look at what I wish I had known when I started as Head of Product… Summary Understanding strategy allows you to effectively delegate, motivate and align so you can move from a nice boss to an effective leader. There’s no separate ‘product strategy’ from company strategy?—?strategy

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Emerge Insights

JANUARY 4, 2023

Are you looking for the best books to read to become a successful digital product leader? Whether you’re a newbie in the field or a seasoned veteran, these top five books will help you master the art of digital product leadership.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership. Aspects which are more on the human skills end of the spectrum and vastly different from being a Product Manager. Shift #1: A leader of leaders The two top things I’ve head people reply to the question “how do I move into Product Leadership?”

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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. The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. No choices = no product strategy. Choice made.

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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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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 1 — Seed) A good product strategy is something every company needs. Here is how a product strategy can help you create business results, even when the market is not in your favor. Product strategy is such a vague term for most people.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

To survive and succeed, your product leadership must be sharper than ever. You need to have a product strategy. As I said in the past, a product strategy has to make sense to you before you invest anyone else’s work in it. The World Health Organization just removed the travel warning for the area.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

For the first two quarters, the area is strategy; for the last two, it is leadership. The first goal is about creating a new strategy, the second one talks about the product life cycle model, the third one covers decision-making, and the last one addresses active listening. Figure 2: A Product Mmgt Skills Model.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. So read on for a quick summary of each book, who the author is, and key points, so you can pick a book for your next beach day.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Leadership without authority is product management 101. But as a product executive, you must take it to the next level?—?and Last week’s learning session in the CPO Bootcamp was dedicated to product strategy. One of the things I said there is that strategy starts with the goals.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 7, 2020

My Journey Transitioning from Engineering to Product Management. Then, I started gravitating towards product strategy questions, like, “Why am I building products?, I worked with the product leadership to plan out a product strategy. 4 Key Differences in Skills Engineer to Product Manager.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

Additionally, an inspiring vision helps you apply a visionary leadership style and become a visionary leader—someone who guides others through a big, motivating goal. Instead of referring to the product, state the positive change you want to bring about, such as “healthy eating.”. The vision pulls you.”. A shared vision unites people.

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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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Userpilot

APRIL 25, 2022

What is product leadership and how is it different from product management ? In the article, we’ll be discussing what the product leadership role entails and how it is different from the product management role. Product leaders are responsible for building the right teams and organizational cultures.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Note that the term product team is used in different ways by different people—much like other product management expressions. Some fellow authors include the stakeholders, for instance, Steve Haines in his book The Product Manager’s Desk Reference , whereas others don’t, for example, Marty Cagan in his book Inspired.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Grow Your Leadership Skills. Carrying out the relevant product discovery work and taking into account product ethics.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2021

Product strategy is one of the most important tasks of the product leader, and definitely one of the hardest things to do. This should be your first step into product strategy. Since product strategy is so hard, many companies simply skip it. in detail?—?which Make sure your paper works.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

Challenging situations are great opportunities to grow as a human being and by doing so, you increase your leadership power. You may want to combine reviewing the market development together with the product performance in form of regular strategy and roadmap review meetings (as I discuss in more detail in my book Strategize ).

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. As a product person, and the VP of Product at Yesware , I’ve never come to fully embrace the discussion of what each team would deliver, in what sequence and within a long timeframe. Everything flows from this vision.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

PM280 Group’s webinar emphasizes the importance of a strong team culture in enhancing product management leadership and team success. Chameleon’s webinar with Janna Bastow highlights the deep significance of customer centricity in product leadership for organizational success. Book the demo today!

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The Product Cafe

APRIL 6, 2023

Read more This Week's Must-Read Book 📖 "The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers" by Ben Horowitz. ☎️Communicate effectively: Communication is essential in product leadership. 😎Be a leader, not a boss: A great product leader is a leader, not a boss.

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Bain Public

JUNE 16, 2021

Paul’s unique experience brings together the necessity of great engineering and the beauty of product strategy. With this, he has identified an actionable process that enables him to offer concrete messages about product management and operations. About NEXT AI.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 16, 2022

Imagine that John is a sales rep and a key stakeholder who hardly ever attends the product strategy workshops you’ve invited him to. Instead, he requests product roadmap changes by talking directly to you. First, empathy is the foundation for effective leadership. Cultivate Curiosity and Open-mindedness.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

Indeed the role of a product leader is different to that of a product manager. A product leader not only has to manage products but also to guide and direct the overall product strategy and team, and ensure that products are delivered to market. Resource management. Stakeholder engagement.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Why do product managers need them? 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. Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes. Build a product that users love by delivering value and a good product experience.

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Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2022

Product-led cultures elevate products to the highest levels of the company’s mission. But unfortunately, in many companies, the product leadership team can perpetuate a negative culture — setting up product managers to fail. In essence, the product leadership team are those with influence on the product roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 5, 2018

It has been a while since the term Product Leadership has gained widespread adoption in blogs, articles and even books. It represents the intersection between Product Management and Leadership; which, in my point of view, have a lot to do with each other. PS: Doesn’t it sound a lot like leadership? #3

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Bain Public

MAY 22, 2020

Paul’s unique experience brings together the necessity of great engineering and the beauty of product strategy. With this, he has identified an actionable process that enables him to offer concrete messages about product management and operations.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Goals in Product Management. As I explain in my book How to Lead in Product Management , setting the right goals is crucial to align stakeholders and development teams and to achieve product success. Does this mean that there is a natural fit between goals in product management and OKRs?

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Bain Public’s SOAP™ methodology and tool offers a full picture of your product strategy, tactics, metrics and roadmap all in one place. SOAP™ is a methodology that Bain Public created for product planning and roadmap prioritization based on principles of Product Strategy, Lean Startup, User-centered design, Data Science and more.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 15, 2022

In his keynote at #mtpengage Hamburg 2022, Martin Eriksson – Product Partner at EQT Ventures, Co-Founder of Mind the Product, and Co-Author of the best-selling book Product Leadership, or in short “the big friendly giant of product management” – illustrates how to overcome decision overload [.]

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Business of Software Conference

AUGUST 23, 2022

Leadership #Growth # Hiring #Product #Strategy. Leadership #Marketing #Product. Leadership #Product #Strategy. Growth #Leadership #Product #Strategy. Growth #Leadership #Product #Strategy. Book tickets. Product on sale. $

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The Product Coalition

MAY 19, 2022

Once the product-based revenue potential is rolled up across the portfolio, an enterprise number emerges to share with leadership. Of course, that product-driven revenue potential will be negotiated with leadership. In following this approach, you are taking an important and impactful step toward product-centricity.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

And those that have not been able to adjust face being wiped out completely, no matter how amazing their Product(s) may have looked last year. Find more detail on the conversations you need to have and questions you need to ask, as well as links to a ton of useful resources, in Randy’s book, What Do We Do Now? So what do we do?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

To build such a stakeholder community, try the following techniques, which I discuss in more detail in my book How to Lead in Product Management : Bring people together and have joint workshops instead of holding separate conversations with the individual stakeholders, see also the section below.

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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. Strategy and Focus It almost doesn’t matter what drove a company to work with me originally, at some point we get to strategy.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Grow Your Leadership Skills. Carrying out the relevant product discovery work and taking into account product ethics.

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