Bain Public

MAY 26, 2022

Over the last decade, there has been advancements in the product world where the CEO is no longer the only one who calls the shots; now, there is a Product Leadership Team (PLT) who is supposed to work collaboratively with the product manager on defining the next set of features of a product.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

Amanda had 18 years of product management experience and was able to clearly foresee the obstacles I might encounter in my new role. We started by defining the objectives I wanted to achieve over the course of my 6 months in the product mentor program, an important exercise at the beginning of any mentor partnership.

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Tyner Blain

MARCH 31, 2024

Shaping a product strategy involves both. Your product won’t spring into existence fully formed and ready to compete like Athena emerging fully armored from the head of Zeus. ” To tease apart the difference between shaping releases vs. sequencing work, it helps to contrast two different ways to think about timing.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 19, 2022

Once the product-based revenue potential is rolled up across the portfolio, an enterprise number emerges to share with leadership. Of course, that product-driven revenue potential will be negotiated with leadership. In following this approach, you are taking an important and impactful step toward product-centricity.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 13, 2024

Product teams are responsible for creating a strategy and explaining the “why” behind the product. Product’s role is crucial to the development of effective product strategy and stakeholder buy-in. This creative thinking exercise encouraged everyone to consider a new market.

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. As a product person, and the VP of Product at Yesware , I’ve never come to fully embrace the discussion of what each team would deliver, in what sequence and within a long timeframe. Everything flows from this vision.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

As you might have noticed from reading this blog, I share many stories related to my personal relationships as a means to talk about product leadership. Often it’s because so much of product leadership is about relationships. At work, things are much more complex.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

This article assumes that you are familiar with the product vision board or the key elements of a product strategy : market, value proposition, standout features, and business goals. A good vision exercises pull—it describes a future state that people want to bring about. A Brief Guide to this Article.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

So in 2020, I took a survey of all the available product management courses out there. There were plenty of courses introducing product management to those new to the role. There was even an emerging set of courses focused on product leadership. Take product roadmaps for example.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 17, 2023

Paul acquired the breadth of experience through his leadership roles at San Francisco Bay Area startups and high-growth companies. He helps rapidly scaling early-stage startups craft their Product Strategy and everything related to it. I eventually got fired as a product manager. Not really.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

You can download the template for free from romanpichler.com/tools, and you can find more information on how to use it in my post The GO Product Roadmap. I like to use my Product Vision Board to develop a valid product strategy. Use your vision and product strategy to make the right decisions. Learn More.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

And until now, I never thought to share the view a product leader has on roadmaps — at least publicly. I want to help you if you are new to product leadership -or- if you work for a product leader who doesn’t always communicate expectations, leaving you wondering what went wrong. Why share now?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

A great roadmap helps PM’s achieve the following: 1, It ensures the product team understand what they are working towards, by aligning the product to the company’s short term and long term goals. Image credit: ProductPlan Roadmapping sits in the Product Strategy phase of a Product Management It’s very different to a Product Backlog.

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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. It can also get leadership buy-in to where a team is heading overall.”–

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

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?”. Developing a Product Strategy. Product Vision. But product vision alone is not enough. Product Strategy. Read five steps to a winning product strategy.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Impact mapping is a collaborative strategic planning technique used by product managers, product owners , and senior technical leadership, who work mostly in Agile software delivery. Impact mapping allows businesses to make sure their product strategy is aligned with business goals and that all stakeholders are on the same page.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

”)  Building software is a complex intellectual team exercise, not simply reading specs or typing.    The corporate strategy, which the product strategy supports.    (Agilists state this in the positive: “start less, finish more.”)

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Mind the Product

MAY 27, 2019

At ProductTank Montevideo (Mvd) we celebrated World Product Day earlier this month with a presentation from an awesome product leader, VP of Product Strategy at Rootstrap, Neville Reeves. Neville started with a “nine dots” exercise (you must link all nine dots using four straight lines or fewer, without lifting the pen).

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2022

This little gardening exercise and the patience it required led me to think about the things in our daily work as product leaders that simply take time, and there is nothing we can do to speed up the process. It was a lengthy process, with quite a few trials and errors, until we found the right strategy.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

The Product Leader Certificate requires a little more PM experience and demands competence in DevOps, data analytics, and hard technical skills. Key takeaways include product strategy , user research, and the UX/UI design process. It explores product leadership fundamentals and managing growth, among other takeaways.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

This is the process we go through during and after physical exercise that makes our bodies stronger.). If you’d like to delve more deeply into crisis leadership strategies, I recommend this article from ProductPlan’s Chief Executive Brad Wills: A CEO’s Tips for Resilient Leadership During Challenging Times.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 11, 2022

I got the leadership team together in front of a whiteboard. This mapping exercise, along with empathy, will help calm their fears. I lead an enterprise software company in the healthcare space. I finally have a chance to do something about dreaded implementation experiences. What did I do? What every great consultant does?—?I

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Userpilot

JULY 8, 2021

Product Management Certification by Product School is a cohort-based course that gives you a certificate recognized by hiring managers globally. A product manager course for advanced/pro product managers should teach you how to move from product execution to product strategy. Mode: Online.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

These exercises build consensus around strategic imperatives. For this reason, it’s the perfect time to align those with the product vision by conducting an annual planning session. This big-picture exercise may not put everything on the table. Annual planning and the product roadmap.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product-Led Onboarding by Ramli John and Wes Bush is a new book about how to implement user onboarding for the ultimate customer retention. Geoff Watts, Author of Product Mastery.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

It’s obvious that some companies see digital transformation as little more than a marketing exercise so that they can be seen as in touch with modern thinking. How Does Product Management Enable Digital Transformation? That’s where product management comes in. It must be driven from the top.”

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 21, 2016

I find that mindfulness is particularly helpful for product managers and product owners. Go for a walk, do some exercise, chat with colleagues (but try not to talk about work). Like any exercise, regular short meditation sessions tend to be better than an occasional, long one. Creativity needs space. Learn More.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 8, 2023

A solid product strategy takes time to build. Here is the method I use for creating a product strategy that makes sense. When I talk to the startups I consult to , or with the CPO Bootcamp participants, I always say that building a solid product strategy isn’t like solving a math equation.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 3, 2018

The same holds for product management: When you create a product strategy for the first time, for instance, you are likely to make plenty of mistakes. Are you, for example, critical of the other person’s work and quick to exercise judgement? It is also a great opportunity to and learn something about yourself.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Your customers and prospects don’t live in a vacuum, nor can your product strategy. Implementing competitive intelligence as a strategy helps uncover future opportunities and risks. And you’ll get a sense of their revenues, financial stability, leadership team, board members, and any future acquisition activity.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

Three Types of Leadership. Scrum is a simple framework with three roles: product owner, development team, and Scrum Master. Each role provides a distinct type of leadership. As the product owner, you lead the product and are responsible for its overall success. Lead the Product.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

To effectively staff the product team, I recommend including the people shown in Figure 1. [1] 1] Figure 1: The Product Team Members Let’s look at the product team members in Figure 1 in more detail starting with the person in charge of the product. 4] As you may have noticed I didn’t list the product backlog.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 27, 2022

Whether it’s staying on the same page as the development team during a sprint or creating buy-in on the product strategy and roadmap, these solutions streamline communication, minimize confusion, and provide centralized repositories for crucial information. Moreover, they strengthen work relationships and facilitate alignment.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The role did not require a lot of experience in product management because it did not involve developing and managing a product roadmap. Being responsible for a product roadmap typically requires more experience in product management because it is related to developing a product strategy based on company objectives.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

We suggest spending as little money as possible when building the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) to test it; only scale it after you know exactly how it will work. If it wasn’t already obvious, product development is an investment. This takes discipline, but it is very cheap insurance that will lower product development costs and time.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 28, 2024

Step 2: Deliver the Value Once you have a clear definition of the value, it’s time to make sure the product delivers that value. Most products begin with functionality, but as I do this exercise with the companies I work with, they often realize that something is missing, even if the technical capabilities are there.

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Sequent Learning

JULY 25, 2019

After wondering how to help those who have trouble developing vision, I came up with these exercises. People learn to list their good qualities when they can’t envision themselves realistically, and it works for a product as well.

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