Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

They started with a clear product strategy, aligning on the top customer problems they wanted to focus on in the first six months. For example, they held pair programming sessions and domain experts would lead “lunch and learns” to explain the business, customer context, and product strategy.

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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. in detail?—?which

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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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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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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 17, 2020

Choosing the right product strategy framework is very important for every product manager. Remember, choosing the right product strategy will go a long way in making sure that the entire product life cycle proceeds flawlessly. Product Strategy Frameworks. Each strategy has its pros and cons.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

They started to see the value. -- 2011: "Product reports to the VP of Engineering." 2019: "Product reports to the CPO." We started seeing the need for product leadership, even at the largest of companies. -- 2011: "What is a user story?" Product Strategy = Company Strategy in this case.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

How did Amazon’s product strategy fare during the pandemic? Short answer: Amazon’s product strategy example lead the way). Amazon’s product strategy example has rewritten the book on convenience, easy access, and speed, and in doing so, embedded itself in the daily lives and routines of consumers.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Bain Public’s SOAP™ methodology and tool offers a full picture of your product strategy, tactics, metrics and roadmap all in one place. SOAP™ is a methodology that Bain Public created for product planning and roadmap prioritization based on principles of Product Strategy, Lean Startup, User-centered design, Data Science and more.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

With such hyper-growth, there’s been an ever-growing need to scale the way we do product. In this article, I’m going through the approach that I recently introduced at Miro and is currently at the heart of how we center ourselves around the product strategy. Each part is associated with the stages that the document goes through.

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Bain Public

APRIL 17, 2020

Career Development Program Details: Whether you are a Founder or part of the Product, Engineering or leadership team, you need actionable strategies and impactful techniques that drive results today. I'm not very good at Product Management. We work with you as partners by sharing product leadership best practices.

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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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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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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Why do product managers need them? 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. Build a product that users love by delivering value and a good product experience.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Why standardization is critical for leadership teams and stakeholders. Stacey explained they needed a visual roadmap that their leadership team and stakeholders could easily digest. Moreover, with multiple products and product teams who had different ways of roadmapping, the leadership team struggled to get updates.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

Yes, they are ugly, but powerful in processing numbers and producing insights that support product decisions. The best product managers will use Google Sheets at least at some point in their planning stage. That not only saves a lot of time, it levels up your product strategy entirely. Check out their features.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In part two of this summary, I am moving to talk about strategy and leadership insights. Today I will focus more on leadership and strategy. Strategy and Focus It almost doesn’t matter what drove a company to work with me originally, at some point we get to strategy.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

How Growth Teams and Product Teams Should Work Together. Product teams and growth teams should be working together to focus the overall team strategy. In a young growth team, it’s not always clear that a product strategy, target metrics or resources need to be more focused.

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UX Planet

APRIL 30, 2024

Just as you invest time in learning about leadership and other business areas, take the initiative to grasp design principles. Consider enlisting the help of your design advisor to assist with hiring strategy and process. Not having design leadership If you are a small team of let’s say, 20 people it’s not a problem.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 31, 2021

Leading Complex Initiatives As a Product Leader, you will be expected to lead and drive initiatives that span across an organization. Your leadership team, stakeholders, and individuals doing the work all need to trust that your influence will result in better outcomes. It may not go anywhere outside of a document or presentation.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

.” - Paul Young Why did every product we launched seem to feel different? We had a product lifecycle, although… it wasn’t documented in a playbook. I thought we were in good shape, given that this was the next release of an existing software product. Product Strategy. That said, in my mind?—?we

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The Product Coalition

JULY 5, 2023

When you are early on, your goal is to learn not to document. Honestly, only once you have a product in the market that is a general release with paying users is a roadmap worth considering. You need to communicate your product story beyond the product team. What’s the big picture behind the product?

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

Let’s face it, most organizations have poor habits around roadmap completion — this is why getting leadership (or stakeholders) to develop consistent, stable and familiar routines reinforced through repetition and communication is valuable. Let’s dive deeper!

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

And until now, I never thought to share the view a product leader has on roadmaps — at least publicly. I want to help you if you are new to product leadership -or- if you work for a product leader who doesn’t always communicate expectations, leaving you wondering what went wrong. Why share now?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

A great roadmap helps PM’s achieve the following: 1, It ensures the product team understand what they are working towards, by aligning the product to the company’s short term and long term goals. Image credit: ProductPlan Roadmapping sits in the Product Strategy phase of a Product Management It’s very different to a Product Backlog.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

I then break down the resources into the way I think about what a product manager does, which is drive the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Each section covers the best practices for each of these four dimensions of product management. Design is the third critical dimension of product management.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

As product managers, you’re often probably delayed by the time-consuming document assembly necessary for ‘spaced repetition’ of the roadmap strategy. As you well know, repeating your product strategy often leads to better recall later on and prevents any misalignment in the future. A Roadmap Overview.

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People-First Product Leadership

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In Part 2 , we’ll cover the Organization’s Strategy and Goals. Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals Share People-First Product Leadership Quick refresher I’m a strong believer in the importance of a well defined strategy. Establish a clear strategy.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

You should therefore help the team acquire the relevant market and domain knowledge—for instance, by involving the team in research and validation work, inviting them to join you when you visit customers— and ensure that they are aware of the product strategy and product roadmap as well as the business goals and KPIs.

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The Service Blueprint is a key component of Bain Public's product management process. We use it to help understand the context products operate within. The best way to create a great overarching product strategy is to grow and evolve this document.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

David Marquet’s book ‘ Leadership is Language ‘ is a great source of ideas for helping promote the right mindsets. Source: ProductBoard Marty Cagan’s book Empowered is a great source for ideas on how to organise product development to get better results through building trustworthy product teams and then trusting them.

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Now, what if teams were honored just as much — or even more — when they successfully deprecated features and products? Arguably, killing portions of a product is one of the most challenging aspects of leadership. ” Neil Rahilly – VP of Product and Design at Mixpanel. The feature then needs to be maintained.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

It encompasses the quality and consistency of research and design processes, resources, tools, and operations, as well as the organization’s propensity to support and strengthen UX now and in the future, through its leadership, workforce, and culture. Have you prioritized the design problems to be solved in your product roadmap?

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I find that a product walkthrough is often needed when you are trying to make the case to leadership to green-light a new venture based on the strength of your vision for it. When you initially document these, they should be pretty light-weight. They are simply to illustrate the main concepts. Execution: Team OKRs.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

As part of his role at Timechain, Mario works with leadership to research and analyze the market, and define the product mission, strate gies, tactics which lead to the product roadmap updates and product growth opportunities. Talent Acquisition at Bain Public.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Incomplete by Design…finishing documents is making it harder for your team. Read more » The post Incomplete by design – Matt LeMay at MTP Engage Hamburg 2022 appeared first on Mind the Product. Watch the video below in full or read on for a recap of some of the key takeaways. [.]

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Each career track is available to product managers and are dependent on aspirations, experience, and a deep understanding of the primary responsibilities. What Does A Group Product Manager Do? Having alignment across all product teams is vital to their success. Who Earns More: Group Product Manager or Principal Product Manager?

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 30, 2017

With her background in product management and marketing, the lessons, stories and tips she has to convey will be very relevant to you. Here is a recap of some of her most useful lessons: PM Lesson #1: Successful communication is the bedrock of Product Management. Informed: Wake Up Wisdom for Women” in 2011.

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