The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Jonathan Berg Director of Product Management, Schoology.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Well, th at’s the role of a product strategy. My favorite definitions of strategy are the simplest I’ve found. The one I use most is this: a strategy is what we choose to do. A simple representation for our product strategy. Is this thing you’re asking with our mission, vision, value proposition?

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Instead of acting as a sole decision-maker, today’s product managers need to excel at facilitation, stakeholder collaboration, and building trust across teams. 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

Engineering may want to focus on technical debt, while marketing wants to accelerate a product launch. By aligning on shared business objectives, you can guide teams toward decisions that benefit the broader product strategy. As a PM, you’re often stuck in the middle, tasked with balancing both needs.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

These guide and align the strategies of the portfolio members , as Figure 1 illustrates. Figure 1: The Product Portfolio and Product Strategy Using Microsoft Office as an Example In Figure 1, the strategies of the individual products—Word, PowerPoint, and Excel—implement the Office strategy.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Tips for creating customer use cases – for product managers Today we are talking about how to create and use customer use cases to guide product design. Our guest is Dr. Lilac Muller, VP of Product Management at Kymeta Corporation. The engineers can’t design to every possible use case.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Data PM: organizations dealing in data products (building AI/ML based products) prefer a PM with data science background so that they can appreciate the problems well and being able to work with data engineers/scientists. There are many frameworks available on building products and the approach varies individual to individual.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Themes are critical building blocks for your product’s strategy, each Theme is usually a statement describing an idea that is critical to the vision of your product. Themes typically describes abstract ideas or concepts critical to your product vision. Ions Engine. Ions Engine Pilot Cockpit.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

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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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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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

If you thought there were a million ways to define product management, product strategy might have it beat by a longshot. Just think about how many ways product strategy is defined within your own organization. It’s the number one thing that makes product strategy both challenging and frustrating at the same time.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

I’ll keep this article not attached to the product itself but in the process of building it and it’s the current process up until now. Alice Product Manager”- Without Product Vision, any direction will be taken. This research was based on areas that are either directly or indirectly related to my product.

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The Product Guy

MAY 3, 2018

The cycle of creating a great product begins with listening. To create value for customers requires a series of conversations with customers, sales, marketing and their marketing goals, clients, engineers, and designers. Products are not simply about being built. They are also about bringing value.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Or some version of the converse… Product managers… they’re always giving us more sh** to do. Frustrated Engineer. Product management and engineering needs to have a constant push-pull for progress to be made. I’ve heard some variant of these phrases more than once. Don’t dictate the how.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 1 — Seed) A good product strategy is something every company needs. Here is how a product strategy can help you create business results, even when the market is not in your favor. Product strategy is such a vague term for most people.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 3, 2017

Being the first product manager at a startup typically means being the 10th or 15th employee, and recognizing that – although product management has both tactical and strategic components – you’ll initially be more focused on tactics. Strategically, this is about focusing vision and limited resources.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

You have this grand vision. I know in a lot of feature factories, product teams don’t engage with customers that often. 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? We have plenty of ideas. Our backlogs are full.

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Userpilot

JULY 24, 2024

Launching a product without a well-defined product strategy framework is similar—you risk wasting resources without a clear path to success. So, how do you outline a product strategy framework that is the foundation of product-led growth ? Product strategies help you design and grow your products.

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The Product Guy

JULY 2, 2017

You want to be the product that is useable, feasible and valuable to the target audience/customer ie you’re selling yourself as the solution to some specific company’s specific problem. You can stand out from other product managers by applying these skills to yourself. Do you have a Product Roadmap? What is your product vision?

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

Expanding on a recent post ( Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies ), I’ve been seeing lots of maker teams (product, engineering, design) struggling to form product strategies without a company strategy to hang them on.    We can’t build a sensible product strategy in a vacuum. 

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 11, 2022

What are some good product vision examples? How is the product vision different from the company vision? What makes a great product vision? How should product managers develop effective product vision statements? Product vision development takes a few iterations.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I guess that shouldn’t be a surprise since everything revolves around the products. My goal with this 10-part series on product portfolio management is to highlight the strategic ripple effect across engineering, product marketing, sales, including presales, customer onboarding, and customer success. Here’s the thing.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 25, 2024

In product management, where data and features often take the spotlight, the power of storytelling is sometimes underestimated. Yet, it is this very skill that can elevate a product from a mere concept to an inspiring vision. This narrative approach doesn’t just sell products; it sells a vision of what’s possible.

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Product Management University

MARCH 15, 2023

Product Owners If you’re a hands-on, love-my-product, into-the-details person, this is where you belong, and your title accurately reflects what you do. You own the day-to-day care and feeding of your products. Keeping engineering teams in-the-know on user jobs, outcomes and obstacles. Sprint planning and backlogs.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 4, 2021

You don’t need to do anything to keep listening, but I want you to know the name change is coming—The Everyday Innovator will be renamed to Product Masters Now. . Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [1:58] What are your responsibilities as a Chief Product Officer? His name is Anup Yanamandra.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 2, 2021

Our SVP of Product, Paul Adams, describes innovation as building something new, different, and better. This type of innovation can factor into the business strategy, product strategy, and execution levels. At the product strategy level, does this project sit within a product area that requires an innovative solution?

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Employees who have been with the company for a long time may find it difficult to adapt to new directions, especially if they’ve been successful with the original product. Additionally, he was named a Distinguished Graduate of the University of Pittsburgh’s Katz School of Business in 2006 and the Swanson School of Engineering in 2023.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 3, 2020

Our vision is to bring a messenger-first, personal experience to all customer and business communication. Our principles help us make decisions about strategy, roadmaps, design, and more. All together, our mission, vision, and principles inform and guide our daily work – they’re part of what makes us different.

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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. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables. Vision: Vision Narrative. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2023

However, I’ve learned that cutting corners early in product strategy development leads to significant hurdles later on. However, involving the design team from the outset will help you avoid common pitfalls and streamline product development. They bring unique skills to support, challenge, and refine your vision.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 21, 2023

The second part of the process is the product vision, which outlines how you will make progress toward the mission over the next two to three years. That feeds into the product strategy, which is typically set on an annual basis or for six month. The product strategy goes hand-in-hand with your KPIs and goals.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Her exposure to the product team —and the departure of a previous product manager—sparked Lisa’s interest and led to her stepping into the product manager role right around the time that Teresa began working with the product team as a discovery coach. Widening the Scope from Solutions to Opportunities. Tweet This.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

We spot important ideas, uncover customer needs, turn concepts into products or features, and work to increase market share. But there’s more to innovation than just creating new products. Innovation is the economic engine for organizations and a key source of new value.

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