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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). No formal stakeholder review as this is meant to be the first version that will undergo many iterations and refinements.

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The Worst Nightmare of Any Product Manager

The Product Guy

We would regularly meet to discuss the features required, what the customers expected. As we were getting closer to the end of the year, my senior vice president called me in, to review our progress against our goals. I’m not a technical Product Manager. I had a strong roadmap, clear goals and a vision for the product.

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Sprint Planning Tips for Product Owners

Roman Pichler

For advise on when to carry out product backlog grooming, please see my article “ When should Product Backlog Grooming Take Place? ”. An example of the former would be “Find out if users are willing to share personal data as part of the initial registration process” to address a user-interaction risk. Focus on the Sprint Goal.

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Product Discovery Tips

Roman Pichler

I find it helpful to form a product discovery team that consists of: Development team members: user experience (UX) designer, developer, tester; Key stakeholders , for example, people from marketing, sales, and support; A ScrumMaster or agile coach. Talk to the Users. Do Just-Enough Product Discovery Work.

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“Build What Matters” Framework for Startups

The Product Coalition

In due course, the startups need to invest a good amount of time in organizing the strategy and roadmap to track the product performance to get an early product-market fit and scalability. Defining strategy takes time and should be reviewed multiple times. Goal: On average new customer base should be increased by x% QoQ.

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The Making of Product Managers: Negar’s Story

The Product Coalition

Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. In this role, she led a small marketing team and worked with them to develop customer personas to further improve the effectiveness of the organization’s marketing campaigns.

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A summary of “Building Products for the Enterprise”

The Product Coalition

Ben and Blair state, “the main goal is to know enough to empathize with your users/customers and to help create solutions to their problems”. Industry knowledge means having a deep understanding of your customers and your market’s unsolved problems. Product Management is about solving customer problems.”