Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

She shared insights from her experience leading product teams at various organizational scales and helping companies transform their product vision into measurable business growth. She now runs her own consultancy, helping CEOs scale their companies by transforming product vision into measurable business growth.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2024

However, product managers often face even greater challenges when navigating high-stakes situations with senior leadership or dealing with conflicting priorities across departments. Engineering may want to focus on technical debt, while marketing wants to accelerate a product launch.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

A healthy relationship between product management and engineering is critical to building successful products. In a perfect product development world, communications are seamless, specifications are clear, and product and engineering teams work together without friction. Share Leadership and Credit.

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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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Productside

MARCH 6, 2025

From surfacing hidden landmines during due diligence to bringing entire product orgs under one cohesive vision, Brians got the battle scarsand the winsto prove it. Hot Tip: At one acquired company, Brian discovered they used a rare programming language (Clojure) that none of his existing engineers knew.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Rather than rulers, product managers are navigators—balancing the competing demands of customers, engineers, designers, sales teams, and executives to ensure the right product gets built for the right reasons. It’s a job that requires influence without authority, empathy without favoritism, and vision without control.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Our guest, Anya Cheng, founded Taelor, combining her leadership experience at B2Cs and her knowledge of tech product management, to make it easy for men to wear stylish clothes for any occasion. Anya also is mentor at 500 Startups and a teacher of product management for Northwestern University.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

I find it extremely helpful that the entirety of the team’s time is clearly defined, even when that line of work is not managed by the PM (such as technical debt, which should be managed by the engineering organization). Is this thing you’re asking with our mission, vision, value proposition? More than what’s already in the pipeline?

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

Tailor Your Communication: Adapt your messaging for different audiences, whether its engineering teams or senior leadership. Inspire Confidence with a Clear Vision A compelling product vision unites teams and stakeholders, positioning you as a leader with purpose and direction.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 30, 2021

The solution requires companies to institute two parallel career growth paths — one that focuses on people management and another that focuses on leadership as an individual contributor , often titled as staff or principal designers. Strategy and vision. Leadership. What do individual contributor design leaders do at Intercom?

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Your job as a product manager is to make sure designers and engineers have crystal clear targets for customer value they can easily hit. Staples of the Product Manager Job Description Most product management job descriptions still list responsibilities for vision, strategy, customer discovery, growth mindset, thought leadership, etc.,

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 6, 2019

Product engineers are experts at identifying, understanding and solving problems. Here are the five areas that we encourage product engineers to contribute to as they seek to maximize their impact. But we’re even prouder of engineers who build great products and then share that knowledge with the world. Being a brand ambassador.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

 He is also the co-author of Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management. A lot of companies have a mission statement that they think is a strategy or vision. The vision is where you intend to be in several years. A lot of work that goes into a vision. It provided a lot of clarity.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 18, 2022

The leadership side of product management reaches its pinnacle when you have the complete trust of executives, marketing, sales, engineering, finance, customer success, and customers. Product management leadership comes in two flavors. Using Customer Knowledge to Establish a Clear Vision and Priorities That Stick.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The vision to create hit records enabled Motown to build a powerful culture that turned an $800 investment in 1960 into $20 million annual revenue within six years and produced some of the biggest hits and superstars of the 20th century. Scale through strong, service-based leadership. Leadership is Culture. No Room for ego.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

Their visions, target groups, needs, standout features , and business goals must comply with the overall portfolio strategy. [1] To get started, create your own Portfolio Vision Board by downloading and adapting the Product Vision Board or by recreating it in your favourite tool.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 1, 2025

Dogfooding as a leadership practice: Sachin personally drives and delivers monthly (more than 700 trips total). Hybrid marketplace vision for autonomy: Uber divested its in-house AV unit and now partners with over 15 AV companies. This motto is the one he drills into his kids too.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Processes include forums to sync with different members of your team and other teams, forums to get leadership alignment, ensuring high quality of deliverables, and OKR planning. Typically, there are two big phases in bringing a product from vision to launch: planning and execution. How do you set the vision, strategy, and roadmap?

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

With experience as an engineer at the New York Times and as a designer at Dropbox and Square, Karina has a rare firsthand perspective on the cutting edge of AI and large language models. Create mechanisms for continuous feedback, and make rapid iteration a core part of your development cycle.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 13, 2024

Vandegriff recognized for exceptional leadership of technology and teams, positively impacting Alchemer customers LOUISVILLE, COLORADO, March 13, 2024 – Alchemer, a global leader in experience management and enterprise feedback technology, today announced that Brandi Vandegriff has won the Colorado Technology Association’s CIO of the Year Award.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

However, this is a naïve analysis that overlooks lost market share due to poor strategic thinking, or the demoralizing effect on engineers having to repeatedly rewrite code because of poor product-market fit. consulting engineer, helping customers implement Chef’s products. operations engineer across a wide variety of industries.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 10, 2022

She cofounded the Radical Product Thinking movement of leaders creating vision-driven change, along with authoring the book Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter. My path to product leadership has been through entrepreneurship and product diseases. A good vision answers: Whose world are you trying to change?

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. Simple task, right? Lessons Learned.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

At Headspace back in 2016, we had established our product roadmap and success metrics and our mission and vision, but teams were still confused about why we were working on the projects we chose. Product strategy sits in between the mission and vision and the plan, either at the company level or at the team level.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 22, 2019

Creating a product vision of the future that’s awesome for everyone. It’s all about the why and crafting a compelling vision that explains the vision to the customer and the company. In those situations, the leadership will write the OKRs in isolation and hand them down without collaboration.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. A hands on product leader, Jonathan relishes close collaboration with design and engineering teams.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Principal Engineer Todd Johnson walks the team through orchestration based on the results of the exercise. In order to find these answers—and involve the team in the process—Lisa says she decided to run a full week design sprint “so we could turn our customer research into a cross-channel orchestration vision. Tweet This.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 20, 2019

The other path, the one I’ll focus on in this post, continues along the journey of individual contributor : to mastery of the craft of design, to leadership without the need to manage, to above all else shipping great work. Another dimension on which behaviors can be assessed is whether you are demonstrating leadership in your role.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Frustrated Engineer. Product management and engineering needs to have a constant push-pull for progress to be made. Here are some of the things to keep in mind when working with engineers that I’ve gleaned from my experience. I’ve heard some variant of these phrases more than once. Don’t dictate the how.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2021

Do you want to represent a big idea concisely to your customers or your leadership? The Concept Map Target Audience: Product Teams and Leadership Intent: Sharing Vision and presenting the concept for acceptance The concept map helps you illustrate and present, well, a concept. Good things come in small boxes.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

You have this grand vision. We have some engineering teams that are so high-performing that they put a lot of pressure on PMs saying, ‘What’s next? What’s the vision? Then I come in and say, ‘We can’t waste engineering time now for six weeks on tech debt. We have plenty of ideas. We’re drowning in ideas.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 21, 2021

The Pipeline allows leadership to communicate a ranked list of priorities. Teams meet frequently and communicate, and the vision and work are visualized using Scrum. The Market Requirements Event involves customer-facing people like sales and marketing, and it’s led by product management with developers and engineers present.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This move demonstrates the importance of innovation and risk-taking in maintaining market leadership. Greg holds a degree in Industrial Engineering and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, where he also teaches courses in B2B marketing at the Katz School of Business. He has served on numerous boards, both profit and nonprofit.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. A hands on product leader, Jonathan relishes close collaboration with design and engineering teams.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Vision: Vision Narrative. Most product managers realize that defining a compelling vision for their product is a core responsibility of their role. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

Then when I heard his backstory in technology leadership roles at Xerox and Experian and the challenges he encountered with product roadmaps, I was eager to invite him to be a guest on this podcast. Many of the tools product managers use on a day-to-day basis are engineering-focused ticketing systems. Engineering had a lot of power.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 8, 2022

Many of them are in leadership roles, such as Product VPs, CPOs, and Heads of Innovation. She is leading product and engineering teams to develop a platform for embedded integrations that quickly connect various software applications. Leadership characteristics will serve you incredibly well. But many others listen as well.

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