Sequent Learning

JULY 25, 2019

Start With A Vision. Your success as a product manager is pinned directly to the positive contributions to the firm’s bottom line. Successful products begin life with a spark of inspiration and a vision. Vision is, considered a non-negotiable for a CEO, and is often non-negotiable for a product manager.

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Product Bookshelf

APRIL 15, 2024

Martin Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumels Product strategy is a set of choices informed by product vision and company objectives. Product strategy tends to be mysterious because it is typically associated with executive leadership, large-scale bets, and major inititiaves. Playing to Win by A.G. Lafley and Roger L.

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Sequent Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2023

A Holistic Skill Set with Product Management Certification Skill Amplification : Aspiring Product Managers undergo comprehensive training, gaining expertise in strategic thinking, data analysis, and leadership, further enriched by a Product Management Certification. It doesn’t just shape careers; it defines success stories.

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People-First Product Leadership

OCTOBER 22, 2023

The positive nature of appreciative inquiry resonated with me. The other AI promotes such a model by looking for the positive instead of the negative (or gaps). Dream: Unlock creativity and possibilities by imaging potential positive futures, representing multiple perspectives, opinions, and understandings.

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People-First Product Leadership

JANUARY 22, 2024

Such an exercise is called “ Elephants, Dead Fish, and Vomit ” and originates from Airbnb. an exercise I like to do is from Coda and is called “Is your team laying bricks or building a cathedral”? You could fill out a vision board or draft a PRFAQ. List the elephants in the room. To go from 1% to 3.5%

Product Management 52

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. Clarity around the product vision, market opportunity, value to the user, how to win in the market, metrics, objectives, assumptions, dependencies, constraints, and how the product delivers results for the organization. The north star was clear?—?enabling new revenue?

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Mind the Product

MAY 27, 2019

Neville started with a “nine dots” exercise (you must link all nine dots using four straight lines or fewer, without lifting the pen). He explained the rules and challenged us to complete the exercise. Start by establishing a clear vision, map out a strategy, and execute a series of tactical moves. A Game of Chess. Opening Game.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

12 months) that choices are meaningful and actionable Lends itself to OKRs or metrics Not just an airy 5-year vision with all things for all people.  I think of this first as an organizational and company culture question, not first as a Porter -meets-slideware-meets-research exercise.  Short-enough time frame (e.g.

Strategy 119

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 16, 2019

I've long found myself unsatisfied with the conventional discourse of what leadership is supposed to look like in Silicon Valley technology companies. These best practices are typically oversimplified into two high-level philosophies on leadership. These two leadership approaches couldn't be more different from each other.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

A strategic product manager (PM) is responsible for shaping and sharing a strategic vision for a product, and yet—oddly enough—finding time for strategic activities can be a very real challenge. How can you take responsibility for the vision and shape the future of your product when you don’t control strategy at the corporate level?”.

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BrainMates

OCTOBER 25, 2021

One of the biggest challenges as a Product Leader is bringing your diverse internal and external stakeholders to align their focus and resources behind the North Star you have defined in your Product Vision and Strategy. In addition, we’ve had to cope with uncertainty and change in our work and relationships.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

From prioritization to vision, you need everyone on board and moving in the same direction. That being said, it’s still a learned skill which you can begin exercising today, no matter where you are in your career. Be a keeper of the vision. This north star, the product vision, is your greatest tool for achieving alignment.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 20, 2020

With that in mind, I started to dig into these articles and relate to how we’re addressing organizational leadership with Path to Agility ®. I wholeheartedly agree with the need to “create balance from the top” as a central tenet of leadership engagement. The Agile Leadership Team. HBR article setup. Balance from the Top.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Unfortunately, it’s often common for companies without a product vision or plan to have a hard-driving unhealthy 24/7 work culture. Work With a Positive Company Culture. One of the first steps to striking a solid work-life balance is through finding an organization that offers a positive company culture. Unwind With Exercise.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

People with this competence: - Are skilled at winning people over - Fine-tune presentations to appeal to the listener - Use complex strategies like indirect influence to build consensus and support - Orchestrate dramatic events to effectively make a point A good part of our job requires the exercise of influence. It is the only thing”.

Product Management 155

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 27, 2022

With thousands of unfilled positions listed on job boards, companies compete for scarce and selective talent. Knowing the business is willing to invest time and money in these educational opportunities shows the company cares and can increase retention, loyalty, and a positive atmosphere. Product management is no exception.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2021

a clear and compelling vision. from ‘ Drive’ All top product leaders know the importance that vision plays in the success of a product. As Marty Cagan states in Inspired : “When done well , the product vision is one of our most effective recruiting tools, and it serves to motivate the people on your teams to come to work every day.”

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 10, 2018

Lead with the strength of your ideas : In my mind, thought leadership is one of the best ways to influence. The long game starts with a compelling vision for your product that you rally and inspire the entire organization around. Ultimately if there is a shared vision and as importantly shared sense for how to measure success?

Product Management 60

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The OKR methodology helps organizations measure success and stay on target with their strategy and vision. For example, you need to communicate your strategy and vision widely and cultivate an environment of transparency regarding business goals and direction. Vision and strategy should also directly inform your objectives.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

Initially JustGiving supported only registered charities on its website, but the founders’ vision was to support all good causes. We ran through various exercises in the first week to give us direction, including user journey mapping , product in a box , and the speedboat game. The initial vision was to. This is what we did.

User Testing 118

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Vision – the who and what. Just like any good product team/ squad, my team need a shared vision, which they are aligned around and that gives them a clear sense of purpose. We co-created our vision using Roman Pichler’s canvas. Our team vision is: Create exceptional digital experiences, effectively.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. The vision describes the ultimate purpose for creating the product and the positive change it should bring about. Additionally, it is based on my leadership work, especially my book How to Lead in Product Management. [2]

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2022

With thousands of unfilled positions listed on job boards, companies compete for scarce and selective talent. Knowing the business is willing to invest time and money in these educational opportunities shows the company cares and can increase retention, loyalty, and a positive atmosphere. Product management is no exception.

Data Visualization 52

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Mind the Product

MAY 16, 2018

You could point to his success at negotiating new contracts with labour unions to cut costs, increases in organisational efficiencies, or his introduction of a strong vision to enhance stakeholder value. In one session we did a values exercise to better identify his key values (five or six values that resonate with fundamental, core beliefs).

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

While behavioral interviews are guaranteed for most tech positions, they're often overlooked in interview prep. " and seek to better understand your: Leadership Problem solving Communicating Teamwork Cross-functional collaboration and more. Leadership. Specifically, they want "emergent leadership."

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Userpilot

MARCH 3, 2022

You should customize the content of your resume to match the requirements of each position you apply for. Also, this is where you present your skills that are relevant to the position you’re applying for. Ex of PM skills – Creating Product Vision, Roadmaps, GTM plan, collaboration, Data Analytics, Wireframing, etc.”

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Leadership met every day, twice a day, and passed priorities down to the product management team. Forecasting became about playing out different scenarios and informing leadership of what might happen through several different projections; this was a new exercise. Shopify likewise faced many questions and uncertainty.

Data Visualization 78

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2019

Leadership books for PMs, installment 1 When I first became a manager, I was exposed to leadership training for the first time. And should be trained in leadership fundamentals. And should be trained in leadership fundamentals. I just said that leadership applies to PMs. I have yet to see a company figure this out.

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Product Bookshelf

MARCH 17, 2017

The beginning of a Lean UX project is a hypothesis statement which clarifies vision and goals for the team and company leadership. Gothelf advocates collaborative design exercises in which designers and non-designers participate in co-creation. It shifts the emphasis from outputs to outcomes. Collaborative design.

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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 Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

You have this grand vision. That was a good exercise and that was learning number one: Breaking it down into its smallest pieces and aligning on something and learning together as a team, I think unblocked a lot. What’s the vision? The vision is flight level one for me. It is hard to do true research for a product vision.

Product Research 218

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Product leadership is about finding the right business opportunities to accomplish with the right product. But you know how it works, this initial traction is very delicate, and alongside these positive signals there are legitimate concerns, so the decision to move forward with it is not trivial. You should.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2019

Or is it like, “Hey, if this is a consistent pattern then we need to make sure no one ever repeats, we’ll have a principle about the positive behavior that we want.” The vision? It’s the predictability of the leadership team, it’s the predictability of you, of me. .” Is there a principle to be found in that?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

If you are looking to fill a position for a Product Owner in your organization, you may find the following 71 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate. derived from a vision and strategy?—?low A Product Owner is a leadership role, yielding no authority in a traditional management sense.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Your job as someone vying for a position as a senior product manager is to discover the intent behind each question. Take advantage of the time spent to position yourself as a credible, qualified, and experienced professional, befitting the senior product manager role.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

When the research is narrow-scoped, there is a higher risk of missed opportunities, blind spots, and false positives. Choose the few top metrics where positive movement could have the most impact. .” — Arthur Leonard Schawlow Tradeoffs When optimising for speed, there are tradeoffs. Prioritise the category with the biggest known gap.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

This can incrementally add new capabilities to the product and potentially quell a few customer complaints, but without a a unified vision, it can also lead to a lot of partial fixes that don’t attack and solve major pain points in a holistic manner. And senior leadership can get out of the weeds and focus on big-picture priorities.

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