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Six Qualities of a Great Product Vision

Roman Pichler

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. The vision pulls you.”.

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Double Vision: Choosing the Right Approach to Capture the Product Vision

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Option 1: The Vision Captures Strategic Decisions Your first option is to view the product vision as a statement that captures strategic decisions like the product’s users and customers, its value proposition, and its standout features.

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3 Empowerment Levels in Product Management

Roman Pichler

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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Spotlight Vision and the Diminishing Returns of Obsessive Customer Focus

The Product Coalition

In hopes of finding the next big idea, many turn to their most loyal users for feedback and inspiration. In some cases, growth problems are caused by a limiting spotlight vision, where product organisations continue to focus on the needs of a small segment of users even when it reaches a point where it no longer yields meaningful returns.

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How Product Managers Can Define a Product Vision to Guide Their Team

Speaker: Christian Bonilla, VP of Product Management at UserTesting

Every product team wants to build things users love. It’s why breakthrough products rarely happen by accident. Rather, they start with a strong product vision. Getting that vision right is one of the most important responsibilities of the product team. The goal may sound simple, but it’s hard to do.

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Common Product Vision Board Mistakes

Roman Pichler

This article assumes that you are familiar with the product vision board or the key elements of a product strategy : market, value proposition, standout features, and business goals. Vision Captures Product Idea or Business Objective. Additionally, such a vision is hardly inspiring.

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6 Ways to Improve Your Product Experience

Alchemer Mobile

What is product experience? Product experience refers to the customer journey that takes place within the product itself, from a person’s first login to their last time using the application. Here are six steps to take in order to improve your product experience.

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Product Management: Guide to Thriving as a Product Manager

Being a Product Manager can be incredibly rewarding. In the best of scenarios, they craft their product’s vision, influence the process of bringing their product to life, and gain first-hand knowledge of how their product is directly impacting people.

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How Can We Stop Under Utilizing a Key User Experience Champion?

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker

Customer representation has always been a key reason for success in product development. It’s a truth universally acknowledged by the best product managers. Despite this, those building the product itself are often detached from their customers, leading to a gap between vision and execution on the most practical metrics.

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Measure the Immeasurable: Beyond Vanity Metrics

Speaker: Sari Harrison, Product Management Instructor, Product School

As a product manager, it's your job to realize your product’s vision by executing your chosen strategy. Doing this can cause you to lose focus on the real value you are trying to achieve, in favor of moving the vanity metrics such as launches and time spent. It’s also your job to deliver value to the business.