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How to Be a Truly Great Head of Product: Strategy

The Product Coalition

Strategy and enabling your team to solve problems makes the difference between a boss and an impactful leader. There’s no separate ‘product strategy’ from company strategy?—?strategy strategy needs to be cross-departmental. He asked quite innocently in front of my new team, “what’s the product strategy?”

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How to Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy

The Product Guy

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 eight core elements of a winning product strategy

The Product Coalition

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. Choice made.

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Embracing Design Early On: How Collaboration with UR/UX Supercharges Product Success

The Product Coalition

The team stressed. The market was ripe for us to introduce a new product. Then in strolls the design team, telling us to step back. Another blocker in my path preventing me from moving the product team into action. He acknowledged that his team often slowed the momentum. We needed to deliver, not discuss.

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Future-proofing your product strategy with adaptive teams

Mixpanel

Having worked with many product leaders over the past 20 years, I’ve repeatedly heard that balancing the needs of users, engineering teams and the business—all while building a successful product function that drives innovation—is tough. Lifting & shifting: the common pitfall of product teams.

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Building a culture of product experimentation at NerdWallet

Mixpanel

As VP of Product at NerdWallet , I guide product decisions that drive maximum value for our brand and consumers—helping them break down complicated financial topics (e.g. This understanding of why we do what we do is core to our product strategy, and informs every decision we make. what the heck is a Roth IRA?),

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Understanding Product Management

The Product Guy

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. .