Product Bookshelf

APRIL 15, 2024

Martin Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumels Product strategy is a set of choices informed by product vision and company objectives. A good strategy consists of a diagnosis, guiding policy, and coherent actions. Why is product strategy so hard? “What is product strategy?

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

Feature parity across desktop and mobile is rarely what customers need or want. If an organization wants to shift to product teams—teams empowered to drive outcomes —they need to structure their teams such that each team includes the necessary skills and abilities required to build and deliver customer value. and CBC Gem.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 7, 2020

My Journey Transitioning from Engineering to Product Management. I worked 9+ years in software development, leading sizeable cross-functional engineering teams across time zones. Then, I started gravitating towards product strategy questions, like, “Why am I building products?, Who am I building for?,

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. Here is how it works.

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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. I first heard of Bob when he was the president of Sequent Learning, the product management training company.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

If you want to become a product lead but have no experience, it is still not difficult to get there. You have to earn the necessary digital product management and lead skills and demonstrate them to potential employers with confidence. In general, they play a major lead role equivalent to a Director or VP of Product.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Leadership without authority is product management 101. But as a product executive, you must take it to the next level — and this time use it with the entire management team. Image by Denis Doukhan from Pixabay In the CPO Bootcamp we talk a lot about product strategy. But that’s not the real reason.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. Here is how it works.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Customer experience isn’t just for products. As an employee, you provide customer experience to your manager, your colleagues, and your own employees. One time, a friend of mine invited me to a party that was about to happen the next day. Today’s article is about this special type of customer experience?—?the

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

To survive and succeed, your product leadership must be sharper than ever. Despite its population of 6 million people at the time, it felt like a ghost town. We went for a walk — it was my first time in China — and the streets were almost empty. Time will tell. You need to have a product strategy.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 1, 2022

How product managers can empower teams to create a winning product strategy. We hear a lot about strategy and that product managers need to create a product strategy. In practice, what does that mean and how does a product strategy help you be more successful? 2:31] What is strategy?

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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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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

Like a modern product roadmap, a learning roadmap states the specific outcomes or benefits you’d like to achieve to become a more competent product person, and it captures them in form of learning goals. These help you direct your learning efforts, track progress, and measure how much you have learnt.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

It’s 2023, and customers have options. This makes it more important than ever to create products people actually want to use. What strategies can you implement to drive acquisition and retention faster? The expert speakers at Product Drive 2023 will answer these and many more questions. But how do you do that?

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

The product manager role meets at the intersection of three disciplines: Business Technology User experience (UX) With those skills, you contribute to everything from product vision to product development. The banking industry is looking at an unprecedented time of innovation.

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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. But others find it hard to no longer be actively involved in making product decisions, regularly talking to users, engaging the stakeholders, and working with development teams.

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BrainMates

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Disrupting the Product - Strategy Questions Answered By DIANE SEXTON Even though periods of decline are a normal part of the economic cycle, there is no denying the enormous pressure these periods place on our organisations. Are your target customers still the same? It’s important to remember that things change over time.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

An inspiring vision creates a meaningful purpose for everyone involved in making the product a success including the stakeholders and development team members. It helps people understand how their work relates to a bigger whole and how their efforts create a positive change. Then look for a product vision that everyone can support.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 11, 2022

Yet we continue to think our customers won’t mind changing to use our products. In the B2B hemisphere, change goes hand and hand with new products. They hand the contract off to the customer success team before the ink dries. Shouldn’t implementation be part of our product experience? Customer interviews.

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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. As companies scale, they often cannot satisfy customer needs equally well.

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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. However, we were at a crossroads when it came to the user base.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2022

and actively engaging their customers to find that fit. Pretty soon, it becomes apparent that the founders cannot keep up with the customer engagement activities they once did. This is most likely the point where others will come on board to handle several functions, customer engagement being among them. It’s a fair question.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

People from several different backgrounds decide to become platform product managers and follow a rich and rewarding career that is varied, fulfilling, and well-paid. To thrive in the role, budding platform PMs need to learn technical and softer skill sets, such as effective customer research and road-mapping a product’s route to market.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2022

How can you tell if it’s time to push harder, or should you let things move at their own pace? It adds color to my kitchen, it made me clear the table from other stuff so that it stands out, and every time I look at it I’m filled with joy. It was a lengthy process, with quite a few trials and errors, until we found the right strategy.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 20, 2019

In addition to my formal coaching of product leaders (Directors, VPs and CPOs who directly manage teams of product managers), I talk with lots of senior individual contributors about the risks and challenges of moving “up the ladder” into product leadership roles. So I have a strong sense of what product managers want.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Userpilot's webinar “5 Ways How to Use Microsurveys in Your SaaS" covers efficient feedback collection with microsurveys , seamless integration into user journeys , and data interpretation for insights. It helps you optimize your product strategy with the webinar's insights, and make data-driven decisions.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

Consequently, you don’t know for sure how fast you are running and if you are on track to achieve your target finish time. You’ll end up guessing how well the product is doing and if it is creating the desired value. Consequently, these teams relied on: Anecdotal feedback : “Customers love our product, they told me so.”

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ProductPlan

MARCH 23, 2023

If so, chances are you were working without the benefit of a concrete product strategy. Product strategy helps with feeling overwhelmed because it Helps your product team see how your product contributes to your company’s goals. Guides your product decisions. Their product strategy is reactive.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Jack Welch Product strategists = coaches You, as the product strategist, are the coach. The product strategy acts as the playbook for the team, taking them to victory. Products without a product strategist are like athletes without a coach, wandering campus unable to find the gym, let alone execute a successful practice.

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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. When VCs and customers aren’t throwing money at whatever you tell them, it becomes a critical tool. heard my explanation and immediately said — ‘oh, you are doing product strategy’.

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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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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

I've been reflecting on the last decade in Product Management. These are a few of my observations and personal experiences. 2019: "How do I hire a Chief Product Officer? . -- 2013: "My ppl are not allowed to talk to customers. 2019: "Duh, of course I want my people talking to customers. It is too risky.

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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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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.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

This article explores both hard and soft skills that product managers need in their everyday work, so if you’re curious to learn more, dive right in. TL;DR Hard skills, like technical knowledge, are job-specific and enable product managers to perform their core responsibilities.

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People-First Product Leadership

JUNE 11, 2023

Arsenal was a local club and top of the league at that time. You’ll see why I’m bringing up this point up shortly… At the start of his time at AFC Richmond, Ted Lasso placed a sign reading BELIEVE above the door in the locker room. Think about the last time you shared a bit about yourself.

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