The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Guest Post by: Lee Atkins (Mentee, Session 7, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Jordan Bergtraum]. Truly understanding your customers and finding ways to improve your product is an overwhelmingly daunting task. One method that Product Managers are turning too is the Customer Advisory Board. You’ll learn tons.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

To successfully manage your product and maximise value delivery, you should use additional artefacts including the following five: An inspiring vision that describes the ultimate reason for offering the product; A validated product strategy that captures your approach to realise the vision and make the product successful.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

If you thought there were a million ways to define product management, product strategy might have it beat by a longshot. Just think about how many ways product strategy is defined within your own organization. It’s the number one thing that makes product strategy both challenging and frustrating at the same time.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Additionally, increase your ability to constructively deal with disagreements and learn to resolve conflicts so that nobody is left feeling frustrated or hurt. Guiding the development team and stakeholders towards product success requires leadership at three levels: vision, strategy, and tactics, as illustrated in following picture.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Additionally, increase your ability to constructively deal with disagreements and learn to resolve conflicts so that nobody is left feeling frustrated or hurt. Guiding the development team and stakeholders towards product success requires leadership at three levels: vision, strategy, and tactics, as illustrated in following picture.

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UX Planet

JUNE 14, 2024

Over 8,000 people were interested, so I figured this would be a perfect opportunity to explore my product strategy skills. Aligning with Netflix’s goals: I refined the product vision to ensure it supports Netflix’s core objectives. This can inform future content acquisition and production/product strategies.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Her exposure to the product team —and the departure of a previous product manager—sparked Lisa’s interest and led to her stepping into the product manager role right around the time that Teresa began working with the product team as a discovery coach.

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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. It means that you’ll have to deal with people issues on a regular basis, help and support the individuals who are on your team, constructively address problems and offer advice.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 17, 2016

The best practices for constructing product roadmaps. Practices and Ideas for Product Managers and Innovators. A product roadmap is used by most companies to communicate what they’ll be building over the near term and possibly over the longer term. What are the best practices for constructing and using roadmaps?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 31, 2021

Examples of scope for a team level Product Manager vs. a Product Leader: Look at what other product leaders are responsible for compared to team level PMs at your company. Within Autodesk Construction Solutions (ACS), PMs are responsible for their individual product areas. But that’s the work of a Product Leader?—?lots

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Provide constructive feedback and share your concerns. This will not only lead to better technical decisions and a better product. It also eases your workload: understanding the bigger picture allows the team to help create user stories and to support you in managing the product backlog. Be honest and open.

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Folding Burritos

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Tying everything to a strong value proposition and vision is effectively the kind of thing that produces a cohesive product. The reason is that we often fail to be constructive and pedagogic; if we don’t try to change their mindset, we’re sentencing ourselves to be thought of as “those pesky Naysayers.”.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2022

Our insights are used to shape strategy and help the company focus on what matters most – building products that deliver value and positive impact to our customers and our business. . We developed a clear team mission, vision, and purpose, and created the right org structure and ways of working. Business strategy.

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Bain Public

APRIL 15, 2018

But this is an article about your CEO’s duty to set a vision, to define why your company exists. For some product managers, the thought of talking openly about the void left by a missing vision statement is paralyzing. And as a product leader gets more senior, the need to clearly define the product strategy intensifies.

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Tyner Blain

JULY 3, 2020

A well-constructed epic achieves two objectives. This coherence check is the first important alignment activity required to assure the organization is effectively executing on the vision of the organization. Through the problem statement we can collaborate to achieve a shared understanding of how the teams will realize the vision.

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Ronke PM

MAY 8, 2024

At their heart, culture-driven product leaders have a shared promise: their organization's core values, mission, and vision. Furthermore, they have a clear product vision that culminates in building products that improve their customers' lives, and sometimes, those products may impact humanity as a whole.

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

How do you create confidence in your product strategy with those that approve investment i.e. c-suite or board members? Unfortunately, without anything better, many product leaders rely on the product roadmap to demonstrate their strategy. This is often referred to as empowered product development teams.

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

How do you create confidence in your product strategy with those that approve investment i.e. c-suite or board members? Unfortunately, without anything better, many product leaders rely on the product roadmap to demonstrate their strategy. This is often referred to as empowered product development teams.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2024

TL;DR Product management principles serve as the guiding core of your product. They ensure that your product abides by its basic values. But, they are different from the product vision. Use the JTBD framework and develop a product-thinking mindset for it. Your product can't have everything.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Engineers are highly analytical, but many also understand sound business and product strategy. On top of that they’re also highly sceptical – the best ones question everything (in a collaborative, constructive fashion). Transparency builds trust and trust leads to great effort.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

While browsing one of the online communities I am part of, someone commented that outcome-based roadmaps were just ‘regular roadmaps’ anyway, and that: “… Any product manager that knows what they’re doing doesn’t need outcome-based roadmaps. Measurable outcomes in product roadmaps help you understand progress and continuously learn.

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ProductPlan

JULY 13, 2020

As organizations grow and expand, keeping stakeholders and employees on the same page to drive alignment with your product strategy can be a big challenge. That’s because growth often brings culture shifts, new offices in different locations, and new hires with the different product vision. Build a Foundation of Trust.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Product Leaders need to understand their role, learn not to overcommit and not to de-prioritise leadership, especially when pressed for time. A well thought out and shared vision and strategy provides the baseline for all further activities. Product Leaders should focus on: Curating the right team.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

Product strategy, discovery, and delivery: These are the three general dimensions for which product managers are responsible to optimize in a customer-centric organization. Product strategy exists outside the well defined guideposts of dual-track agile (a product discovery and delivery methodology).

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

Ensuring everyone aligns with the values and what they mean is integral because our organization's core values are the connective tissue that brings everyone together; they are the foundation for the concerted love of our products, solutions, and services. Remembering we might be biased because we're too close to our product is crucial.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

How do you balance constructive feedback on how a company can do better versus seeming like you are overly critical? I always ask how would you improve the product? It's really important to offer criticism that is constructive. Now, he's actually a Google Ventures partner, and his blog posts on product management are astounding.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2019

The vision? And then start small and take the big idea, take that bigger vision, this longer term plan or dream and then start small, break it down into the smallest, smallest pieces. And this idea of “not now” is really powerful, because saying no is really critical to any kind of product strategy and product execution.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Today’s most valuable companies, like Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, are product-led and customer-driven. They owe their success to a unified product vision that is informed by feedback from customers, prospects, and colleagues. Be incredibly rigorous in how you approach building products.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 23, 2020

We kicked off the project by running multiple UX workshops in order to gain a deeper understanding of our client’s problem and close the knowledge gap regarding its market, customers, and broader product strategy. We collaborated in real-time on Miro to create personas and job stories. Conclusions and learnings.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy. Far too many businesses rely on early-on hunches to inform their product strategies. “It is about the people, and vision and purpose and work, in that order. And I thought it was all about the work. And yes, the work was one piece of it.

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Here we look at the skills every successful product manager needs in order to conquer the changing landscape. A product is no different from a well-constructed story. As Andrew Chen, Head of Rider Growth at Uber points out, products need “ consistency and cohesion.” Editorial mindset.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The best product managers think strategically and make difficult trade-offs quickly. They use unconventional ways to spread the vision and have the ability to keep cool under pressure with tight deadlines. They verify if the feature will be a monetizable market opportunity: Does it fit the vision? Does it grow the business?

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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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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Product Leaders need to understand their role, learn not to overcommit and not to de-prioritise leadership, especially when pressed for time. A well thought out and shared vision and strategy provides the baseline for all further activities. Product Leaders should focus on: Curating the right team.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

Different ways of thinking in the workplace Working with somebody that sees things in a very different way than you do must be taken as a constructive challenge, not as an issue. I have some thoughts about this and I will share with you in the following article. This last sentence is a good example for short-term outputs x long-term outcomes.

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Dear Strategy

MAY 26, 2020

In this case, the main products would be considered “core,” while the newer and growing product categories might be considered “non-core.”. Now, for all of these scenarios, the key elements to include in your strategy are the exact same things that I continually refer to in this blog. Problem solved.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Product managers play an important role in steering leadership to evolve the product strategy and corresponding tactics. Here are 5 steps we suggest to override your company’s risk averse orientation: Make your CEO provide a clear vision. Talk constructively about where to go next.

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