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Product Managers Misunderstood: We Don’t ‘Rule’ Silicon Valley—We Navigate Its Complexities

The Product Guy

The criticisms raised in the article—many of which stem from anecdotal frustrations and surface-level observations—overshadow the reality of a role that has become indispensable in delivering value to customers and businesses alike. It’s a job that requires influence without authority, empathy without favoritism, and vision without control.

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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. The overall example I use to illustrate the mistakes is a healthy eating app that helps its users improve their eating habits and live more healthily.

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How WellNest Rebooted Product Strategy (eBook Preview)

Productside

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training How WellNest Rebooted Product Strategy (eBook Preview) When product teams get stuck in backlog chaos, stakeholder noise, and reactive shipping, its not a process problem. Once again, the company has posted a weak quarter, with lackluster results from its flagship product, BuildNest.

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Building a Great Product Management Organization

Melissa Perri

I then do various interviews with executives all the way to Product Management team members and surrounding functions. Other Times, it's due to a lack of skill set in product leaders. But that’s okay, because once we know where the weak spots are, we can fix them. I gather data through surveys about observations.

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Storyboarding for Influence: How Product Managers Can Drive Alignment Without Authority

Productside

When done well, storyboarding helps PMs communicate clearly, align teams faster, and influence decisionswithout needing formal authority. Not because the ideas are bad, but because the delivery misses the mark. PMs are often tasked with aligning stakeholders, guiding engineering teams, and championing the customer.

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How to Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy

The Product Guy

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). Two major obstacles stood in my way. Where do we play? And where do we not play?

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Everything You Need to Know about Product Portfolio Strategy

Roman Pichler

Their visions, target groups, needs, standout features , and business goals must comply with the overall portfolio strategy. [1] These might be end-user-facing or internal ones like a software platform, for instance; they might directly generate revenue or support commercial offerings. A product portfolio is a group of products.