PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 1, 2020

A product manager that I hire needs to always keep in the mind the product vision and key success factors, and emphasize them through all of the discussions with company teams that seek to limit their own team's effort, expenditure, or risk, and will blindly limit the product's potential. Product vision statement 5. Product Vision 4.

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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. Without it you can't be vision-driven. You assumed there was a vision. He seems busy.

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

At the beginning of the year, when our product teams defined our vision and strategy, I put together a working group that consisted of our 3iab or squad (product manager, the design lead, and the tech lead) and cross-functional product team leaders. We walked them through our vision, product roadmap, customer value, business value, and KPIs.

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280 Group

JANUARY 24, 2021

The vision, strategy, and goals of the organization, which your product contributes to. Funding for product initiatives. External Ecosystem for product delivery. Channel partners. Analysts and Influencers. Associations and strategic alliances. Company Goals/Strategy. There are many desk-makers out there—so, what made their desk special?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2023

Shared Vision: Establish a shared vision and purpose for the team. Regular Feedback: Provide regular feedback and constructive criticism to help team members grow and improve. Here are some suggestions to achieve that: Clear Communication: Encourage open and transparent communication among team members.

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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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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

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. Feedback: You are able to offer constructive feedback so that the other person can receive it and benefit from it.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 28, 2022

The PM therefore needs to lead with vision, influence, empathy, EQ and collaboration. I’ve written about how to critique design constructively here ?—?PMs all the people that actually have the skills to build something (design, engineering, data science) don’t report to the product manager.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 9, 2019

And do you agree on what a product vision , strategy , roadmap , and backlog are, for example, and how these plans should be captured? How skilled are they in constructively resolving conflicts and collaborative decision-making ? Do common product discovery and strategy practices exist? What are performance evaluations based on?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 9, 2019

And do you agree on what a product vision , strategy , roadmap , and backlog are, for example, and how these plans should be captured? How skilled are they in constructively resolving conflicts and collaborative decision-making ? Do common product discovery and strategy practices exist? What are performance evaluations based on?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. Clarity around the product vision, market opportunity, value to the user, how to win in the market, metrics, objectives, assumptions, dependencies, constraints, and how the product delivers results for the organization. Will it create value in an existing construct?—?e.g.,

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2021

We started from two half-baked basic Computer Vision algorithms to objects. Evaluating yourself across the following constructs hence becomes important: - Inclination towards Tech vs Business vs User Experience. All Product Roles Are Not Alike Photo by Lennart Nacke on Unsplash My first gig as a Product Manager was in a Startup.

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Product Management University

APRIL 12, 2021

Their feedback is welcome and will be far more constructive at this point because you’ve completely changed the complexion of the conversation from products to customer value. This list should be pretty straight forward now that everyone is on board with a vision and supporting priorities that revolve around customer business outcomes.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Consequently, a Scrum product owner should own a product in its entirety—from the product vision to the product details. This includes showing the dev team how agile processes can be applied and suggesting specific techniques, facilitating meetings, and teaching people how to constructively deal with conflicts.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

That’s why you have to start with vision and strategy, they give you purpose and direction. Your Product Vision. First, you need a product vision. This may be the company’s overarching vision. The more we organise around an inspiring product vision, the harder we and our teams will work. Emotional. It’s purpose.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 31, 2024

Beyond project leadership, you must champion the design’s significance, shape a clear vision aligned with business goals, and uplift the team morale. A well-constructed Career Progression Framework (CPF) comes in handy for managers. Starting as a design manager can be exciting and a bit tough, especially for beginners.

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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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Mind the Product

JANUARY 6, 2020

There are three key concepts that serve as the foundation of everything we do as product managers: Vision: The end goal we aim to achieve. Strategy: Doing the right things to realize our vision. It’s important to remember that AI is a tactic that can be used to solve specific problems rather than a strategy or vision.

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Modus Create

MARCH 2, 2020

Whenever we talk about our vision for Modus to the wider team, we get many questions. Our vision was to create an environment where our employees will be challenged, one that encourages continuous learning, and one where all may benefit from our employee’s experiences. That disparity is not in alignment with our vision of Modus.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But with multiple products and new urgent bugs and features to manage daily, it can be hard to focus on an organization’s bigger vision. And organizations have visions and goals for products as well. Yet because product roadmaps are living, breathing documents that can and should evolve, it can be frustrating to construct them.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2021

We’ve leaned on all three to begin creating our vision of hybrid work for Intercom. In old-world offices, space typologies – that is, types of workspaces available – were very limited” – Niamh Flannery, Senior Design & Construction Project Manager. We asked our employees how they want to work .

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Mind the Product

MARCH 22, 2019

Adamson was a Victorian engineer and the driving force behind the construction of the Manchester Ship Canal, which connects Manchester to the coast at Liverpool. Adamson pulled together the powerful and influential people in the city, from politics to engineering, sold them his vision for the canal and got the project moving.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 8, 2021

Aside from generating revenue, it’s also important to check if the solution aligns with the business’s direction, vision, and values. These processes with IMPACT can help you articulate what’s meaningful to business: Vision & Mission—Although it’s often handed down from senior management, it still influences your work.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2020

Shared vision & working practices At the organisation level your vision should be value-driven, emotionally engaging, & underpinned by metrics. Delegate & challenge constructively. They increase the quality of that impact by challenging people constructively?—?this It will often be the reason people join.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Shift your individual focus from design and execution to vision and strategy. The way I think about product management is it boils down to driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of a product area. Doing this right means a lot more than simply supporting your team. Create a strong system of accountability.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

These professionals typically aren’t able to provide much value when it comes to problem solving or strategy itself, because: a) product owners have already “figured out” the solution and b) designers are meant to execute on someone else’s vision.

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Antwak Blog

APRIL 8, 2021

In the daily grind, with project groups engrossed in their specific tasks, the product owner endures the worst part of outlining the product vision. While great product owners have a natural talent & capacity to direct product vision. The person in question actually has responsibility for product vision.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Scratch/custom building: The longer of the two routes is to take a scratch-build approach to app construction. App builders are simpler than the custom route but they’re still not entirely straightforward, so prepare for some head scratching—especially if you have a grand or complex vision.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 24, 2020

This conjures up visions of the owner jotting down notes or quick chicken scratches at times that would otherwise be inopportune – waiting in line, riding on the train, walking up stairs. But don’t think of it as a beginning-to-end construction process. Step 2: Generate. Time to start the process of making the wireframe.

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

Product strategy is a high-level plan that outlines how the product will support the vision and achieve business goals. Without product strategy, we have no alignment on what approaches product development will take to iterate closer to the vision and deliver commercial goals.

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

Product strategy is a high-level plan that outlines how the product will support the vision and achieve business goals. Without product strategy, we have no alignment on what approaches product development will take to iterate closer to the vision and deliver commercial goals.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The only constructive byproduct is a learning experience worth communicating to save other products from succumbing to the same mistakes. Vision: The art of Seeing What is Invisible to Others. I hope that the following observations can help your product management environment to evolve into something stronger and better.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

An outcome-based roadmap just sounds like a c-suite failing to construct a functional product organisation.”. This is about communicating a measurable change to your organization, and how you're achieving success towards your shared vision. You can also try to screw a square peg into a round hole, but it’s not going to be pretty.

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The Secret PM Handbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

A properly constructed value proposition is extremely compelling to prospects. The y-axis represents "ability to deliver," while the x-axis represents "completeness of vision." The upper right "magic quadrant" is vendors who have a compelling vision and can deliver on it. .” I’m sure you’ve heard this term.

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UserVoice

MARCH 21, 2017

Having a plan and a vision, communicating it well and sticking to it. Of course, not everyone is thinking quite that far ahead or has much of an audience for their audacious vision. Their vision paints a picture of what the world can look like when their products have hit the market.

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