The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

There’s no separate ‘product strategy’ from company strategy?—?strategy strategy needs to be cross-departmental. Using the ‘Kernel’ from Richard Rumelt’s ‘Good Strategy/Bad Strategy’, specifically insights and developing a guiding policy allows you to enable your team and avoid micro-managing.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

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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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. 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).

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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. We knew our market inside and out. Back to the dilemma?—?As

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

At Intercom, we believe the best products are built with the market in mind. That’s why some of Intercom’s first marketing hires were product marketers and why we’ve had a “seat at the table” from the early days of the company. . More and more, I see startups hiring PMMs as their first marketer ”.

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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. Here is how a product strategy can help you create business results, even when the market is not in your favor. Product strategy is such a vague term for most people.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

To survive and succeed, your product leadership must be sharper than ever. I temporarily relocated there with 2 more developers from my company. You need to have a product strategy. As I said in the past, a product strategy has to make sense to you before you invest anyone else’s work in it.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 23, 2023

One of the first things you should do in your new role is to take stock of the current state of the product and its market, which means getting to know your team, customers, and competitors and analyzing any available data on product performance and market trends.

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BrainMates

MARCH 11, 2020

Your Product strategy is the most important long-term document you ever create for a Product. It helps you imagine the future of your Product. But before you can craft your Product strategy you need to know — what’s going on? Some things you should know are: What problem is your Product solving?

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 7, 2024

Brought to you by: • WorkOS —The modern API for auth & user identity • Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments • OneSchema —Import CSV data 10x faster — Ray (Jiayi) Cao is the global head of product strategy and operations for monetization product at TikTok.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Instead, you rely on the contributions and the support of the key stakeholders , the development team members, and possibly other product people who help you manage a large product. For example, the marketer has to create the marketing strategy, and the development teams have to design and build the product.

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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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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Convincing stakeholders the above supports company goals (product strategy). After more than two dozen conversations with product management VPs and SVPs, I’m happy to report the market-facing, customer-value-driven product management I’ve long known is alive and well. Finding user problems. Here’s the bottom line.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership. Aspects which are more on the human skills end of the spectrum and vastly different from being a Product Manager. Shift #1: A leader of leaders The two top things I’ve head people reply to the question “how do I move into Product Leadership?”

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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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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How do product management and marketing teams work together to build successful products? TL;DR Product managers define the overall product direction and oversee the entire product lifecycle. Product marketing sits between product development and the market.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 5, 2022

Depending on the size and org structure of your company, the role might also be referred to as Chief Product Officer, VP Product, or Director of Product Management. [1]. The responsibilities I share below are based on my work with product leaders and product practitioners. Develop the individuals on the team.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Leadership without authority is product management 101. You must master it to succeed, in most cases with developers. But as a product executive, you must take it to the next level?—?and Last week’s learning session in the CPO Bootcamp was dedicated to product strategy. end-to-end, not just your part of it.

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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. This will allow them to take full ownership of and responsibility for their products, and it will increase their motivation, productivity, and job satisfaction.

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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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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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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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BrainMates

MARCH 11, 2020

Your Product strategy is the most important long-term document you ever create for a Product. It helps you imagine the future of your Product. But before you can craft your Product strategy you need to know — what’s going on? Some things you should know are: What problem is your Product solving?

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Product management doesn’t run Engineering; Engineering runs Engineering. And at least in public, Engineering and Product leadership need to be shoulder-to-shoulder , actively supporting each other at every turn. But there are some engineering team configurations that I see as problematic.  So

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

This team consists of a product owner , a Scrum Master , and several developers, which are also known as development team. Forming such a team connects the person in charge of the product—the product owner—with the people who design, architect, program, test, and document the solution—the developers.

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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

JULY 31, 2023

What does a product marketing manager (PMM) do? This is the question on the lips of many marketing professionals browsing through opportunities at tech companies. Chances are you already know their broad responsibility is to develop and implement a marketing strategy roadmap for a specific product.

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Product Warrior

DECEMBER 7, 2022

This is the introduction to my 10-part series to help you execute and continuously improve your product strategy. After explaining to board members we could not acquire the Internet, I quickly learned to execute product strategy fast. Using the Product VCP I align stakeholders, underpin decisions and empower teams.

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Ronke PM

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Use your leadership voice to bring out change. Be passionate and always curious about your product. You must have exceptional communication skills to bring your product strategy and vision to fruition. Here are my 15 rules of great product leadership: 1. Use your leadership voice to bring out change.

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 30, 2017

These words couldn’t be more relevant to product management. But how do you develop the confidence required to lead a team of stakeholders to a positive outcome? Such a trait is crucial to Product Management roles if you want sales, marketing and engineering to trust and follow your direction.

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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. This should be your first step into product strategy. Since product strategy is so hard, many companies simply skip it. Even higher-level goals can be refined and detailed.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

It’s all too tempting to fall back onto less skilful habits and become impatient, tense and stressed, say something we regret afterwards, or pass on the pressure to the development team. Challenging situations are great opportunities to grow as a human being and by doing so, you increase your leadership power. Trust me.”.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

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. More Information : Market Segmentation Tips and Strategize , pp. Many Needs but No Compelling Reason for Using the Product.

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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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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. Provide guidance on the product, including its market, value proposition, business goals, and key features. Development teams should manage their own work (using a sprint backlog or Kanban board).

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

We’ve collected some of the best product management webinars for 2024, so you don’t miss out. TL;DR A product webinar is a virtual seminar showcasing and discussing a product's features and benefits as a marketing and sales tool. You can use your findings and improve your in-app marketing with Userpilot.

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