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How to Get Clarity When Your Company's Strategy is… “Fuzzy”

Melissa Perri

If you’ve ever sat through a company strategy meeting and left with your head spinning, you’re experiencing a common problem. Okay… but that’s a target, not a strategy. That’s not a strategy – that’s a feature masquerading as direction. But here’s the good news: you can get clarity even when your company’s strategy seems fuzzy.

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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

Requirements Engineering Following roadmap creation, requirements engineering emerges as a crucial activity where product strategy meets technical execution. Product Roadmapping Once product positioning is established, product managers move into the more action-oriented activity of roadmapping.

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522: Stop the stupid using proactive problem solving – with Doug Hall

Product Innovation Educators

Doug joined us in episode 518 and is back to share battle-tested strategies that will help you fix problems faster and smarter. The team conducted 72 tests in seven days, meticulously documenting each attempt. What specific changes to your documentation and review processes would make learning from failures more systematic?

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517: How to conduct an AI Design Sprint – with Mike Hyzy

Product Innovation Educators

The AI tool supports this process by: Providing prompting questions to spark discussion Suggesting potential angles teams might have missed Organizing ideas into structured formats Documenting key insights for later reference During the workshop, my team worked on the question, How do I use the space I have in my yard to create a garden?

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How to Sell Your Roadmap to Your Leadership Team

Speaker: Brett Truka, CEO, Devetry

A product roadmap needs to both capture your product’s strategy and outline your execution plan. Because these documents are such an essential component of your job as product manager, you also need to strategize your roadmap presentation. In other words, you need to speak your executive suite’s language.

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Strategy Blocks: An operator’s guide to product strategy

Lenny Rachitsky

Below, you’ll find what I believe is the most actionable, specific, and straightforward framework for crafting a strategy, for both your product and your company. As Chandra shares below, his framework sits on top of the best strategy wisdom out there (e.g. What exactly is product strategy?

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521: Leadership Crossroads–What Every Product Manager Must Know Before Their Next Move – with Kimberly Bloomston, CPO

Product Innovation Educators

The path from IC to Chief Product Officer isn’t just about gaining more responsibility it’s about transforming how you think about product development, team leadership, and business strategy. This alignment of incentives with business results changed how she approached product decisions and strategy development.

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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical integration, misaligned expectations, and lack of preparedness.

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It's Alive! Bringing Your Product Roadmap Back From the Dead

Speaker: Lisa Mo Wagner, Product Management Coach, Writer, Speaker and WomenTech Ambassador

This strategy is ineffective for developing a valuable product because it does not consider the volume of customer feedback. A product roadmap is a living document, a snapshot in time that is subject to frequent change. Companies frequently make this mistake by creating a product roadmap 1-3 years in advance.