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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

Journey Into the World of Strategy. The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. After all, many product managers tend to treat a strategy as something that’s scared and driven top-down from the executive management level.

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How to Offer Constructive Feedback: A Framework for Product People

Roman Pichler

Pete, the marketer, agreed to rework the marketing strategy to support the next major release. It can be tempting to ignore people issues and focus on product-related tasks like reviewing the product strategy , updating the product roadmap , and refining the product backlog. But the team still over-commits and under-delivers.

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Maximising Stakeholder Buy-in to Product Strategy and Product Roadmap

Roman Pichler

The individuals whose buy-in to strategy and roadmap decisions is crucial are the players: They are interested in your product, as they, for example, will have to market and sell it. Decisions related to a new or significantly changed strategy have a very high impact. I refer to this group as key stakeholders.

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Why your growth depends on taking risks with your hiring strategy

Intercom, Inc.

There’s a key turning point for your hiring strategy in a rapidly scaling team or organization. Hiring strategy for early stage startups. Scaling up your hiring strategy. Appreciates fair, constructive feedback. Nice to haves: Comfortable giving constructive feedback to peers.

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The Art and Science of Explaining Your Product Strategy

Speaker: Jason Tanner, CEO of Applied Frameworks

Ideation, discovery, research, and analysis all inform the development of a product strategy that evolves iteratively as the product team learns more about customers, their problems, and potential solutions. However, effective communication of product strategy often presents challenges for product leaders.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Constructing a Persona Workshop

Mind the Product

In our context, it helps you predict the market reaction to your product and go-to-market strategy. Review Your Marketing Strategy. But, after doing that, a well-defined and accepted product persona will benefit your your team, your product and marketing strategy for a long time.

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Tips for Becoming a Head of Product

Roman Pichler

Instead of creating, for example, product strategies and roadmaps and tracking KPIs , you should help the people on your team acquire the right knowledge and develop the right skills so that they can carry out the relevant work on their own. Creating and validating a product strategy including market and user research.