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Strategy Blocks: An operator’s guide to product strategy

Lenny Rachitsky

I worked closely with a seasoned board member to trace this back to a lack of product strategy—both articulated and aligned. With her help, I wrote the first strategy document for Headspace, which eventually led to the complete reimagination of Headspace , maximizing growth for our guided mindfulness product and adjacent spaces.

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516: Strategic decision making in product management- with Atif Rafiq

Product Innovation Educators

Key Challenges in Strategic Product Leadership During our discussion, Atif identifies three main challenges that senior leaders face when developing and implementing product strategy: 1. The methods and frameworks we discussed can help product leaders work through strategic challenges more effectively.

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Unlocking the Secret to a Winning Product Strategy: The Power of a Positive Mindset

The Product Coalition

Silencing Doubts During Product Strategy As a seasoned product manager, I have experienced this struggle many times. That is until I got a chance to participate in a mindfulness exercise. It’s now a core part of my pre-launch ritual for product strategy development. It was truly eye-opening!

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Priority Starts at the Top

Folding Burritos

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. That is, how should we balance multiple, simultaneous priorities? .

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Five Ways to Use Product Management Best Practices

As you move into the new year you can help your product team prepare for success by exercising those product leadership muscles and implementing product management best practices. Here are our top tips for how you can lay the right foundations and get your product strategy off to a flying start.

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Six Types of “Product” Owners

Roman Pichler

If someone is referred to as product owner, then the individual should own the product in its entirety—like Word in the example—and not just a product part—such as the ability to save a document. While using a strategic and tactical product role is a common scaling technique , it is best applied when the product is stable.

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Product Strategy Iterations

The Product Coalition

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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How Product Managers Can Define a Product Vision to Guide Their Team

Speaker: Christian Bonilla, VP of Product Management at UserTesting

Defining the product vision is a high-stakes exercise, which makes it all the more important to avoid some common pitfalls product managers encounter: confusing the company’s vision with their product vision, defining a vision that’s too abstract to be useful in strategic planning, or combining the “what” and the “how” in the product vision.