Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The post includes plug-and-play strategy templates, recommended timelines, the stakeholders to involve at each step, and more 🔥 For more from Chandra, follow him on LinkedIn , and VRChat is hiring ! I worked closely with a seasoned board member to trace this back to a lack of product strategy—both articulated and aligned.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

For example, your analytics team might collaborate with your product manager to ensure the data is interpreted in the right context. Then, the product team would relay insights to the marketing and customer success teams to ensure alignment across departments. What are the 4 major elements of a product strategy?

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Userpilot

JULY 19, 2025

Otherwise, you’ll end up with guesswork-based personas that aren’t actionable enough to drive product decisions nor relatable enough to inspire, and the work of all your company’s teams will stay disconnected from real customer pain points. For example, here’s our user persona example of a Product Manager.

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

2 Unique value proposition should be the major criterion for making decisions Roger Cauvin, founder at Dadnab Product strategy should drive all product decisions. 2 Unique value proposition should be the major criterion for making decisions Roger Cauvin, founder at Dadnab Product strategy should drive all product decisions.

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Tyner Blain

MARCH 2, 2025

Here’s an example – A company is growing by acquisition, and is now faced with the integration / consolidation of two different products. I’m including a number to reinforce the need for quantification when developing problem statements for real, even though this example is not focusing on quantification.

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BrainMates

MAY 26, 2025

These are businesses offering similar products or services within the same geographic or digital footprint. For example, if you sell dog grooming kits, youll want to include other companies that sell similar kits in your region. Compare this analysis to your product strategy and positioning.

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BrainMates

JULY 9, 2025

Turning Strategy Into Outcomes: Influencing Stakeholders To Achieve Alignment By Erica Wass At a Glance This blog outlines how successful product strategy depends on aligning cross-functional stakeholders, not just building a strong plan. In product management, strategy alone isn’t enough.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

I have been helping her reshape how product management is perceived in the company by building a solid product strategy, team structure, roadmap, processes, and more. The company desperately wants the product team to take more responsibility and ownership, but the team doesn’t seem to succeed.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The SpaceX Raptor engines are a great example. Then, hearing the idea repeated — delete, delete, delete — I started to think about products in general and roadmaps specifically. We have a roadmap that is largely, if not entirely, focused on releasing new stuff while maintaining what we have. A reverse roadmap.

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Userpilot

APRIL 16, 2025

When data collection is messy, product managers lose visibility, teams waste hours chasing answers, and user experience suffers. Heres how data fragmentation hurts your product strategy and development: Fragmented data can cause flawed strategic decisions Every product decision starts with a question: Whats driving retention ?

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2025

Saying no to leadership Prioritizing customer needs over politics Aligning cross-functional teams These challenges do not reflect a lack of skill. They require balancing diplomacy, data, and leadership under pressure.

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UX Planet

JUNE 9, 2025

It bridges the gap between observation and action, transforming scattered (and messy) information into clear, prioritised insights that can drive product strategy. For example: P01: Jane — Onboarding The above signals Test Participant 1 , Interviewer Jane , on the theme of Onboarding.

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

Definition and Core Components Outsourced software product development refers to the practice of delegating all or part of the software development lifecycle to an external partner. This can include: Product strategy: Roadmap definition, market research, feature prioritization.

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Gocious Blog

JULY 8, 2025

In industrial manufacturing, product roadmaps are more than just timelines. They’re essential tools that help product managers align global teams , manage complexity, and drive long-term product strategy.

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Reveal

JUNE 27, 2025

Your roadmap is packed with features designed to meet rising customer expectations. It’s a core part of modern product strategy. Traditional tools may still check the BI box, but they don’t help your product stand out. Embedded BI as a Strategic Product Decision Modern enterprise BI is more than reporting.

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Userpilot

APRIL 8, 2025

For example, you can use it to learn how they experienced launching their first campaign or creating a new report. For example, if a user abandons the onboarding process halfway through, it could signal that they are confused about the next steps. What are customer feedback examples?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based.

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Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

The last two scenarios, (4) and (5) are actually not examples of selecting the wrong problem, they are examples of failing to solve the selected problem. Assigning the name of a good thing (like roadmaps) to the bad thing. Usually, these are not problems with the plan (the choice of problem to be solved), although they could be.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Traditionally, strategy and execution are often viewed as separate, sequential pieces of work that are carried out by different people. For example, a product manager might determine the product strategy and one or more development teams might be tasked with executing it. I call these outcomes product goals.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

An effective product strategy is key to successfully create, enhance, and manage a product. There is no point in worrying about the product details and writing user stories if a sound product strategy is missing. But what exactly is a product strategy? Figure 1: My Product Strategy Model.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] What Information Should a Product Strategy Provide? I like to think of the product strategy as a high-level plan that helps you realise your vision and that answers the following four questions: Who is the product for? Do You Need a Strategy for Your Product?

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Overview The GO Product Roadmap consists of five elements, as the image below shows: Date, name, goal, features, and metrics. The checklist I’ve created offers criteria for each element as well as the entire roadmap. Will you, for example, measure daily active users?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 15, 2024

To make this more concrete, let’s look at an example: Objective : Grow the product management team. Key result 1 : Three product managers are hired. Key result 3 : The product management processes are adapted to preserve the productivity level of the team. What are Product Roadmaps? and Android 14.0.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

Overview of the Learning Roadmap. Like a modern product roadmap, a learning roadmap states the specific outcomes or benefits you’d like to achieve to become a more competent product person, and it captures them in form of learning goals. To make these ideas more concrete, let’s look at a sample learning roadmap.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

2] Figure 1: The Power-Interest Grid The grid divides stakeholders into four groups: crowd, subjects, context setters, and players depending on how interested they are in your product and how much power they have. Smaller strategy updates and product roadmapping decisions, however, are not as critical.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2019

There are many issues with having clients drive the roadmap. Secondly, waiting for clients to drive the roadmap tends to puts companies in a situation where the backlog becomes too large to practically handle. Is there some niche that your product could fill and get ahead with in the market? Step 3: Creating the Roadmap.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Traditionally, product roadmaps are output-focussed plans that map features like registration, search, and reporting onto a timeline. Such a roadmap essentially states when a piece of functionality will be delivered. Second, it overlaps with the product backlog, especially when detailed features are used. Outcome-based).

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Melissa Perri

JULY 14, 2016

“What is your Product Strategy? YOU NEED A STRATEGY.” When I replay this scene in my head, I can hear the CTO very audibly yelling (slash pleading) with our product team. This is the way we were taught to think about Product Strategy. This isn’t a strategy, this is a plan. He was on edge.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 No Strategy The first and most crucial mistake is to have no product strategy at all. When that’s the case, a product is usually progressed based on the features requested by the users and stakeholders. The strategy is therefore either too big or too narrow.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Why a Product Strategy Process Matters. An effective product strategy process should ensure that a valid product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are always available—that a shared and valid approach to achieving product success is available at anytime, as the picture below illustrates.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Before you order the roadmap items, double-check that you have a validated product strategy in place. You should be able to confidently say why users would want to use your product and why it is worthwhile for your company to invest in it. If you haven’t nailed the answers, then do not continue the roadmapping effort.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 2, 2023

A process for improving product roadmapping using Objectives and Key Results – for product managers. Today we are talking about roadmaps. Some product people love roadmaps, while a lot hate them. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:11] What can make them better?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 10, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Traditional vs Outcome-based Roadmaps Before I share the four steps, let me briefly describe the main differences between a traditional, feature- and an outcome-based product roadmap. A traditional roadmap is essentially a list of features, which are mapped onto a timeline.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

I believe the main culprits are Mr. Roadmap and Mr. Backlog. Culprit #1: Mr. Roadmap. How should we balance technical debt vs our feature roadmap? Technical debt can be valued in terms of “future change” outcomes like improved delivery velocity or better platform scalability, for example. Why is that?

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Let’s say, for example, that the objective is to “increase engagement.” This is done by using higher-level key results as lower-level objectives, as the following example shows. Figure 2 contains a set of cascading goals: vision, user and business goals, product goals, and sprint goals. Should You Use OKRs for Your Product?

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Hold Regular Product Strategy Reviews. A product strategy , like any other plan, is subject to change. How changeable your strategy is, depends on your product’s life cycle stage. As long as your product hasn’t reached product-market fit, the strategy is usually volatile.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

Crafting a winning product strategy is crucial for SaaS success, and finding the right product strategy example can provide all the inspiration you need. This article provides concrete examples of different product strategies employed by SaaS companies. Book a demo to learn more.

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