Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

A four-layer framework to create a winning product strategy Today we are talking about creating product strategy. Bob is the author of the book Creative Strategy Generation. I first heard of Bob when he was the president of Sequent Learning, the product management training company. Our guest is Bob Caporale.

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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. No choices = no product strategy.

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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 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. As a product strategist, you are the coach for your athletes?—?err err I mean product team, as they execute.

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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

JUNE 28, 2022

Let’s talk about how to define a product vision, and why the lack of a product vision is so detrimental to your team. As I’ll explain below, the “why” and “where” form your product vision, and your product team (especially your engineers), not only want this from you, but need it in order to do their best work.

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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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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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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

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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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

For the first two quarters, the area is strategy; for the last two, it is leadership. The first goal is about creating a new strategy, the second one talks about the product life cycle model, the third one covers decision-making, and the last one addresses active listening. Figure 2: A Product Mmgt Skills Model.

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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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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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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Goals in Product Management. As I explain in my book How to Lead in Product Management , setting the right goals is crucial to align stakeholders and development teams and to achieve product success. Does this mean that there is a natural fit between goals in product management and OKRs?

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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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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. Team execution and development.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

We also look at: The differences between a technical and regular product manager Their responsibilities The qualities and skills that you need to make it as a technical PM How Userpilot can help technical product managers achieve their goals Let’s get right into it!

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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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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes. They lack vision and lead nowhere. Strategic value is about aligning features with the company’s vision and long-term goals.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 3, 2018

Business Strategy vs. Product Strategy. A business strategy describes how a company wants to achieve its overall aspiration and create value for its users, employees, and shareholders. What is the company’s vision? Note that there is no perfect business strategy—just like there is no perfect product strategy.

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

At the heart of an organization that creates product magic is a product leader who is an expert at leadership and coalition building. These leaders understand that bringing effective products, solutions, and services to market requires consensus building and engaging cross-functional teams in the journey.

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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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Amplitude

JULY 29, 2020

When it comes to product strategy, there is so much conflicting advice that getting started can be confusing. Some companies’ strategies are so generic that they could mean anything, or nothing at all—as perfectly illustrated in this product strategy madlibs , which fills in the blanks with buzzwords and jargon and calls it a strategy.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

So in 2020, I took a survey of all the available product management courses out there. There were plenty of courses introducing product management to those new to the role. There was even an emerging set of courses focused on product leadership. Take product roadmaps for example. Fall Programs Begin October 4th.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

TL;DR Hard skills, like technical knowledge, are job-specific and enable product managers to perform their core responsibilities. Soft skills, like communication or leadership , are more general and can be used in different contexts. Agile is the most common development methodology, so PMs need to be well-versed in its principles.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

TL;DR Product management describes the continual process of overseeing the development of a product across its entire lifecycle. The main difference between product management and project management is the focus. Product management is absolutely critical to securing a product’s success.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

The value the product should create is not clearly understood : A validated product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are missing. If this data is actioned, bad product decisions will be made. Do this at least once per quarter, as a rule of thumb, ideally as part of the product strategy reviews.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Provide guidance on the product, including its market, value proposition, business goals, and key features. But let the ScrumMaster or coach tackle people, process, and organisational issues; let the development team figure out what needs to be done to implement the user stories and other product backlog items.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

To help you develop your agile product roadmap, I have created a goal-oriented roadmap template called the GO Product Roadmap. You can download the template for free from romanpichler.com/tools, and you can find more information on how to use it in my post The GO Product Roadmap. 2 Do the Necessary Prep Work.

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. As a product person, and the VP of Product at Yesware , I’ve never come to fully embrace the discussion of what each team would deliver, in what sequence and within a long timeframe. Start with company vision and direction.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 5, 2018

It has been a while since the term Product Leadership has gained widespread adoption in blogs, articles and even books. It represents the intersection between Product Management and Leadership; which, in my point of view, have a lot to do with each other.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 21, 2024

At ProductPlan, we’re committed to empowering product leaders and teams with everything they need to navigate the complexities of the product development lifecycle and ensure they make the right decisions and deliver on strategic initiatives. The integration of AI into product management platforms is becoming essential.

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Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2022

Product-led cultures elevate products to the highest levels of the company’s mission. But unfortunately, in many companies, the product leadership team can perpetuate a negative culture — setting up product managers to fail. In essence, the product leadership team are those with influence on the product roadmap.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

When plotting out our product’s trajectory, there’s a constant tension between two competing mindsets. Where charismatic leaders rally the troops around an ambitious vision with a massive potential payoff. Meanwhile, the slow, steady drumbeat of cautious experimentation and incremental enhancements always makes the product better.

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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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BrainMates

JULY 21, 2020

Stepping up into a leadership role is especially daunting. Product leadership is made even more challenging, as there are very few models (if any) that cover the complexities and requirements of this -broad role which varies significantly between organisations. A new Product Management leadership model.

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