The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

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). I admit that in the past, I have been soured on “strategy” as a discipline.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The roadmap guides and informs everyone involved with the product from ideation to market. Using Your Product Strategy and Product Vision to Plan Your Roadmap. Product strategies must be rooted in the overall vision of the company and product. The product roadmap then reflects that strategy.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2021

Defining your product strategy is the most important aspect of deciding to build something new. It helps your entire team rally around a vision and a set of outcomes, making sure everyone is aligned in reaching those product growth goals. What is a product strategy? How do you set a product vision?

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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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ProductPlan

MAY 25, 2021

Product Strategy is Important. One of the most important roles of a product manager (PM) is setting the product strategy. The strategy, by way of a roadmap, is the document that drives team alignment. That is when the strategy is truly alive when you can see it in action. Neither do its users.

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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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TechEmpower - Product Management

MARCH 4, 2024

TechEmpower has been instrumental in developing chatbots like these, utilizing generative AI to sift through internal documents and user manuals, enabling them to provide precise answers to customer service questions. It also facilitates rapid prototyping, allowing for quicker iterations and thus shorter development cycles.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 10, 2019

But when it comes to product development and the roadmaps that guide that process, you’re often hard pressed to see the desired outcomes represented. But shouldn’t the guiding document for the product strategy be more than just a set of ingredients? “Features become a sales strategy.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

In a recent product management insights report , as many as 57% of PMs said they don’t spend enough or any time road mapping. They also said they wished they had a clearer product roadmap strategy. In addition, product managers said that direct customer feedback and insights were the best sources of their new ideas.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If you say yes to every request, you are in danger of creating a Frankenstein product—a product that is a collection of unrelated features, offers a weak value proposition, and gives rise to a poor user experience. Decline stakeholder requests if they aren’t aligned with the product strategy.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

Himanshu Swaroop’s Advice: Get Everyone on the Same Page with Clear Strategy and Tactics Meet Himanshu Swaroop, Transformation Consultant. They started with a clear product strategy, aligning on the top customer problems they wanted to focus on in the first six months. They enhanced their collaboration through a design sprint.

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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 Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Photo by Alexas_Fotos on Unsplash When I was VP of Product at Twiggle, building the product from zero to one (and then one to ten and so on), I hired a technical writer freelance. Our product was an API, and we needed comprehensive technical documentation. Back to Twiggle. Guess what?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2024

It was time to reset and reinvest in our strategy and roadmap. Your product is heading in a direction divergent from the direction documented in the roadmap. Best Practices and Strategies for Roadmap Hygiene Just as you can brush your teeth and have poor dental hygiene, you can update your roadmap and still experience drift.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 14, 2021

You’re expected to develop a wide understanding of overall strategy and use it to decide what’s most urgent and important. Business and product strategy. At Intercom, we identify teams working within the same area of focus or strategy as a “group”. For me, those are the business and product strategy needs.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

Not every company has seen all these changes, but by and large I think it's been a positive push forward and I'm proud of where we've come from and where we have gotten to. -- 2014: "I do not need Product Managers, I can run my company myself,I have the strategy." 2019: "How do I hire a Chief Product Officer?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

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. The strategy was complete, the build was in process, and we were ready to activate. Product Strategy. That said, in my mind?—?we

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

That also means, as a product leader, remembering those meetings when you were the product manager presenting. As a product manager, remember the product leader doesn’t schedule a roadmap review meeting to rubber stamp your plan. When reviewing a roadmap with the product team, there are six points I always look for.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 18, 2019

As product managers, we need to be skilled in a variety of areas from defining features and requirements to understanding customers, analyzing usage metrics, prioritizing features, managing releases, and the list goes on. In my experience as a product manager, strategy has been one of the toughest skills to develop.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

So, you as a student have the opportunity to intern with different firms for different roles customer success marketing data analytics data science business strategy product management product design And the list goes on. Case studies focus on thought processes, ideation, documentation & problem-solving.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 1, 2023

What Is Product Strategy Exactly? And Why It Matters Product strategy is a creative act, to “do something new,” approaching an opportunity from a different angle. — Self So what exactly is product strategy? Why is it important if I have a solid product management team?” I snapped out of la la land.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. Many companies lack differentiation strategies and drive product development by copying competitors. Build a product that users love by delivering value and a good product experience.

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Actuation Consulting

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Over the past few weeks we’ve considered a number of key product management tools. Today we will look at two of the most important: the Product Vision and Product Strategy documents. Defining a Product Vision Document. The Product Vision document looks into the future.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 24, 2020

In March I set out to help product leaders answer this question. Through interviews, case studies, and community dialogue I continue to identify emerging product management best practices, product strategy pivots, and delivery practice trends that will impact our profession for years to come.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 12, 2023

With Product Discovery, you can capture ideas, organize them in a central repository, and validate the right opportunities that will drive your strategy. For Enterprise customers looking for more detailed information on how to get started, check out our support documentation. But ideas alone don’t make a product strategy.

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

Fear not though, as our product management software guide will give you insights into some of the best-in-class applications that will boost your team performance and help you build successful products! Roadmapping software visualizes and plans product development over time, facilitating coordination and alignment across teams.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Five years ago I wrote about how product strategy means saying no – you must ruthlessly protect your product from feature creep. . Saying no, however, is just one part of a successful product strategy. The meeting point of company and product strategy. Des: Welcome to Intercom on Product.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Prior to Tango, Ken spent most of his career in the Bay Area at Uber, where he held roles in Launch Operations, Data Science, and Product Strategy. . Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [3:12] One of the barriers to high performance is creating documentation. Product Hunt is not one-size-fits-all.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 23, 2022

We'll help you to document your initial product strategy in a short PMF narrative document that lays out each of your key assumptions across 6 critical dimensions.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2017

We’ve all heard about “strategic” product roadmaps. A roadmap is a plan for your strategy that maps out the direction of your product. Ideally, it’s a high-level visual summary that helps product managers get everyone on the same page. And it has to tie back to the strategy of the company. By Jim Semick.

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Actuation Consulting

JUNE 24, 2019

No matter how awesome your product, without a well-conceived launch strategy, it will likely sputter off the launch pad. What Is a Launch Strategy? Your product launch strategy delineates the approach you plan to take in getting your product to market. The Completed Launch Strategy.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

Perform a SWOT analysis, identify the strengths and weaknesses of your top competing products, etc. Use ChatGPT as a brainstorming partner for product ideas , feature ideas, product names, etc. Task ChatGPT with identifying and formulating the best pricing strategy for your industry.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Establishing a Strong Brand Identity for Your Product Management Team: Why It’s Necessary! 3 Reasons You Don’t Need a Sales Discovery Document for Every Product. Creating a Product Strategy: Is It Worth the Effort? Product Demo Workshop November 12, 2020. In the Trenches FAQs.

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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. Operationalizing Product Themes.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2019

I view a roadmap as a high-level plan that states specific benefits a product should provide over a certain timeframe, which may range from six to 12 months. I find it helpful to use the product roadmap so that it connects the overall product strategy with the product backlog, as shown in the picture below.

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ProductPlan

MAY 11, 2020

Proof Over Opinion: 8 Strategies for Selling a Roadmap to a Skeptic. Here you are up to your eyeballs, creating a killer product strategy and roadmap. If you find yourself in a showdown with a skeptic about your roadmap or product strategy, you’ve got to get strategic about winning them over to your point of view.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Therefore, focus on your actual job—making or keeping the product successful. Do not take on additional responsibilities like improving the development process, leading the dev team, making UX design decisions, or creating a marketing strategy. Consequently, make enough time for strategic work. Share the Work. Prioritise.

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