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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

Journey Into the World of Strategy. The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. After all, many product managers tend to treat a strategy as something that’s scared and driven top-down from the executive management level.

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Strategy Blocks: An operator’s guide to product strategy

Lenny Rachitsky

Below, you’ll find what I believe is the most actionable, specific, and straightforward framework for crafting a strategy, for both your product and your company. As Chandra shares below, his framework sits on top of the best strategy wisdom out there (e.g. What exactly is product strategy?

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

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can move from ideas to action Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, I speak with Atif Rafiq about how senior product leaders approach strategy development and execution. Use Tools Wisely Add AI where it helps Keep human oversight Record what you learn 4.

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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. In other words, the strategy should define how important each goal is, relative to others. A simple representation for our product strategy.

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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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Decoding Product Leadership

Roman Pichler

1 ] In fact, some people argue that product leadership can only be exercised by a management role. Leadership can therefore be exercised without being a boss. The leadership they exercise is called emergent or lateral leadership.[ The leadership they exercise has been assigned or granted by the CEO or another executive.

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Six Types of “Product” Owners

Roman Pichler

Referring to people as product owners who do not manage a product and do not exercise the right ownership is wrong in my mind: It creates confusion and it sets wrong expectations: Someone who owns a product part cannot take on the responsibility of maximising the product’s value and achieving product success.

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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.