Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

I believe that the first definition is more helpful, especially in an agile context. Use a product vision ; a product strategy with user needs and business goals; and a product roadmap with product goals (aka. Tips for Forming Effective Product Teams in Scrum. Without sufficient trust, people will struggle to work together well.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

At Headspace back in 2016, we had established our product roadmap and success metrics and our mission and vision, but teams were still confused about why we were working on the projects we chose. Let’s establish some basic definitions before diving into the details of Strategy Blocks: 1. What exactly is product strategy?

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

At the end of this review, I do a Product Leadership workshop with C-Suite and Product leaders, where I show them what good looks like, and they have a chance to reflect on where they are. Siloed Teams : Teams work in isolation rather than collaboratively, resulting in inefficiencies and a lack of unified vision or approach.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 8, 2022

Many of them are in leadership roles, such as Product VPs, CPOs, and Heads of Innovation. Leadership characteristics will serve you incredibly well. Ask yourself, do I have those leadership skills? I would say I’m more of a product person, but there’s definitely overlap between product and innovation.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 9, 2022

We’re delighted to share that Intercom has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 2022 , landing at #35 on the definitive ranking of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world. The Cloud 100 evaluation process involves ranking companies across four factors: market leadership, estimated valuation, operating metrics, and people & culture.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Processes include forums to sync with different members of your team and other teams, forums to get leadership alignment, ensuring high quality of deliverables, and OKR planning. Typically, there are two big phases in bringing a product from vision to launch: planning and execution. How do you set the vision, strategy, and roadmap?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2021

Product strategy is one of the most important tasks of the product leader, and definitely one of the hardest things to do. In the effort to bring the company’s vision into reality, the details matter, often more than the innovation and completeness of the vision itself. This should be your first step into product strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 20, 2019

The other path, the one I’ll focus on in this post, continues along the journey of individual contributor : to mastery of the craft of design, to leadership without the need to manage, to above all else shipping great work. Another dimension on which behaviors can be assessed is whether you are demonstrating leadership in your role.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Vision: Vision Narrative. Most product managers realize that defining a compelling vision for their product is a core responsibility of their role. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Share Leadership and Credit. Share leadership and allow others to present results and demo to executives (Image: Shutterstock). Another way I’ve found to be useful to share leadership and credit is with OKRs. With this system, more people get to take on leadership roles and everyone gets recognition for their work.

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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

Product Managers (PM) need to effectively communicate product vision, strategic roadmaps and concepts to a variety of different stakeholders through the different stages of the product life cycle. Guest Post by: Inis Hormann (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Paul Hurwitz].

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

I definitely want to get into those conversations and that debate. You have this grand vision. That was definitely also holding my team back. What’s the vision? I think teams often struggle to connect the dots between vision, strategy, and execution or opportunity space , right? We have plenty of ideas.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Without thoughtful leadership around them, it may not be in product manager’s gift to achieve a “good” roadmap. This is because product leadership is genuinely hard and quite distinct from the job of product manager – something that is often misunderstood. Purpose, Vision, Mission and Strategy. What is your role?

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The Product Guy

MAY 21, 2018

The big vision was clearly overwhelming – we wanted to change how customers interact on the site; we wanted to build the brand new structure to support a new type of customers, to build the internal admin functions to facilitate internal efficiency; and we wanted to holistically rethink everything to link all the above components.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 1, 2019

When it does, you often end up in a constant game of “catch-up” or becoming perpetually beholden to a category definition defined by another company and rigged in their favor. Pendo’s recent State of Product Leadership survey found that 77% of product teams are evaluated based on the number of features they ship.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Her passion is derived from igniting vision, commitment, innovation, and trust in leadership, development, and marketing teams. ?WATCH And so I think that’s definitely a trend that I don’t see going away. About Jessi: Jessi is a director, technical product manager, SAP Concur. WATCH THE FULL INTERVIEW HERE.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 9, 2020

When we think of corporate leadership, we instantly picture CEOs and executive teams, but the role played by boards is often glossed over and underappreciated. Leadership during the COVID crisis. Use this time to figure out how you can best live out your mission, your vision. It’s definitely a big topic at Dropbox.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

Listen to understand the basic definition of marketing, marketing roles that may have resources useful to product managers, and how product managers can make better use of marketing resources. The Creative Cloud was a definite risk. My primary job is setting the product strategy and vision. 7:06] How do you describe marketing?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Product leadership is about finding the right business opportunities to accomplish with the right product. I was surprised to see that even though that’s a crucial question that I contemplate a lot with, I couldn’t give a definitive answer right away. This is especially true for a startup that by definition has limited resources.

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Product Management University

JUNE 21, 2021

Your Definition of “the Market” is One-Dimensional. Don’t confuse leadership and influence with a dictatorship. Strong leadership and influence from product management starts with superior market knowledge. Get people energized with a practical vision that can be executed across the portfolio.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Sanj started working at Salesforce back in 2005, when the company had around 1,000 employees and a few hundred million in revenue, and he was a part of its growth for 14 years, holding several leadership positions in multiple markets in EMEA. It’s very transparent, very collaborative, and filled with really smart, amazing people.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 11, 2023

It is difficult to answer this question definitively, as there is no one-size-fits-all answer. Strategic vision Great product managers have a clear vision for the future of their products. They can also translate this vision into a roadmap their teams can execute. Not using chatGPT yet? Read this article).

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 28, 2019

A great partnership between product and sales needs to be based on shared definitions of success and an agreed upon process to collaborate. Usable – you can’t build features with no cohesive vision that need layers of solution consultants to walk every new customer through them. You need to differentiate.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Product manager of Airbnb, and leadership wants you to ponder on the idea to allow guests to book cars through the Airbnb Platform. How would you ensure building this new idea would be surely aligned with the Airbnb scalability vision? It can be an Airbnb add-on to stay Homes and experiences (curated travel experience).

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 15, 2015

One of the most rewarding experiences I’ve had at LinkedIn is the opportunity to see Jeff Weiner’s leadership in action. His disciplined approach to leadership has transformed the concept in my mind from an amorphous set of soft skills to a key competitive differentiator in scaling organizations. The importance of repetition.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

If you don’t approach multi-team leadership as its own beast, everyone is going to suffer. You may facilitate unanimity through a well-grounded, practical, unambiguous vision statement. Careful about the vision, though. In groups created around a specific mission, vision tends to be tighter and easier to follow.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

For innovation hubs to be successful, the leadership must clearly articulate the vision and create space within that vision for innovation to happen. Those two things collide with each other at so many levels, and we’ve definitely experienced that as we stepped into this space. Riding different motions at Gartner.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

Introducing Product Management means to install a discipline and to make the company product led and vision oriented. With the actual definition of management as processing facts in differentiation to leadership, the emotional side and the caring for products and the team seams to fall short.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

While this definition is incredibly precise, it is also an invitation to practice and come to our senses , again and again. As a first-time founder, I have been reflecting a lot on leadership, mindfulness, and how much of a difference it makes in how I work and interact with my team. What intention do you bring to your role?

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People-First Product Leadership

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This can lead to multiple life changes as we seek new definitions of success, career shifts, and creative pursuits. Share People-First Leadership How Leaders Should be Thinking About TQ As Scott Belsky describes it, we’re now in a time of “ scaling without growing.” Lancaster and I are here to help you build your TQ.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2019

It is important to set your definition of success at the very beginning so everyone is working towards the same goal. Setting a definition of ready can help the story writing process by ensuring you have everything you need for a story when a developer grabs it to dive in. Provide Vision and Clarity. Define Success.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 8, 2019

The other path, the one I’ll focus on in this post, continues along the journey of individual contributor : to mastery of the craft of design, to leadership without the need to manage, to above all else shipping great work. Another dimension on which behaviors can be assessed is whether you are demonstrating leadership in your role.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2022

Personally, I feel grateful for working in such an innovative ecosystem, but it definitely means that the challenges we are generally facing are different than the ones larger companies are facing. primarily focused on product teams, helping them be great at the discovery work that is at the heart of what they do Leadership coaching?—?focused

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

On the other side, we have a party that advocates for a long-term, holistic, and systemic approachprioritizing user research, consistency, interconnectedness, and a broader product vision. David Logan, author of Tribal Leadership , shares in his TEDx (4) talk that all people form tribes that evolve through five stages.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2023

Let’s begin with a definition — Transcendent leadership extends beyond conventional notions of success and influence. It is rooted in the understanding that authentic leadership emerges when we transcend our ambitions and dedicate ourselves to uplifting others and positively impacting the world.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2019

I used Roman Pichler’s Vision Board to map target users of the culture and their needs, as well as the business goals and the component parts of delivering culture change. I also defined a vision: Agile product management culture is the norm and is adding measurable value to Parkinson’s UK. I highly recommend this program.)

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svpg

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Leadership. That’s pretty much the definition of a mercenary. It begins with those same three areas: First, we need to educate the leadership team. So why don't more companies get this? There are typically three main reasons I see: 1. They just want a team that will follow their directions. And it leads to epic waste.

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