UX Planet

JUNE 9, 2025

Lets explore using atomic notes gathered into the wall-to-wall exercise of affinity diagrams with exploratory research scenario as the focus. Finally, revisit and refine clusters with your team by conducting a “walk the wall” exercise, gathering input from teammates who have worked on the data.

Data Visualization

People-First Product Leadership

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Regularly exercise your product judgment by making informed decisions and reflecting on outcomes. You can replace “product sense” with “product vision” When an organization implements a go-to-market and organizational change like the one described in the question, the strategy stack needs an update.

Product Research

Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 16, 2025

The Nine Lives exercise reduces the pressure of finding your “one true calling” by exploring multiple exciting life paths. This exercise helps you tap into what truly excites you and brings more energy into your current life, without making drastic changes. Then, tackle each one like any other problem: make a plan.

Vision

Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 15, 2025

Your job isn’t to get your ideas implemented but to brilliantly operationalize the CEO’s vision. ” exercise. You’re not the protagonist in your company’s story—the CEO is. Find where you can add unique value within that framework. Help them earn their seat through valuable contributions.

Leadership

Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

They take all the opportunities they’re hearing from their interviews and they do an affinity mapping exercise where they group similar opportunities together. I’ll be totally upfront: I’ve been saying that for years, and I’m not writing a book right now, but I have a vision of writing more books.

Product Research

UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

This is not just a design exercise; its the essence of building long-term trust, loyalty and engagement. Each of these touchpoints becomes a stage on which the brands identity must shine consistently. Emotional Connection Through Content and Messaging: Authentic storytelling and transparent communication help forge a genuine emotional bond.

Reporting Tools

UX Planet

MARCH 15, 2025

We often discuss strategy, vision, and long-term goals, feeling like were making progress. A vision statement can inspire, but it doesnt require anyone toact. Guide them through convergence and divergence exercises. And thats when you see whether the vision can stand up toreality. But design doesnt leave that room.

Customer Experience

Sequent Learning

JANUARY 9, 2025

Understanding what influence is and how it operates lays the groundwork, but to effectively exercise influence, you must first establish yourself as someone worth following (this is fundamental to effective leadership). You can’t dictate to anyone because you don’t have positional power like a CEO might.

Technical Advisors

Business of Software Conference

AUGUST 1, 2025

Dispelling Misconceptions Cost-Cutting Adopting asynchronous work is not primarily a cost-cutting exercise. Define what your culture promotes and discourages explicitly. Leaders must also be mindful of loneliness in remote environments and encourage employees to cultivate a social life outside of work.

Feedback Software

People-First Product Leadership

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Direction – A shared vision people believe in Alignment – Coordination so efforts don’t clash Commitment – Buy-in from the whole team When clients come to me with a similar scenario to the one I described above, I use the following questions and examples to help apply DAC. Try this interactive exercise.

Feedback Software

Lenny Rachitsky

JULY 1, 2025

My advice is to approach the interview as a game with clear rules rather than a casual conversation, and spend the first minute making a handful of assumptions at the start of the interview that narrow the scope to a manageable exercise without prematurely limiting the solution space. Focusing on the U.S.

Analytic Tools

Roadmunk

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

I think it’s also something you can exercise. Learning to write for that actually has been another pretty fascinating exercise in constrained creativity to some extent. One of the exercises we’ve adopted is co-authoring stories. Is it a protection thing? Evan: Probably, to some extent. You can get better at it.

Feedback Software

Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Describe and validate the product strategy —the path to realise your vision—before you create your roadmap and decide how the strategy is best implemented, as the following picture illustrates. 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.

Roadmap

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. Vision Captures Product Idea or Business Objective. Additionally, such a vision is hardly inspiring. Target Group is (too) Big and Heterogenous.

Vision

Roman Pichler

JANUARY 12, 2017

I capture these pieces of information using my Product Vision Board. This is not meant to be a scientific exercise but based on the information you have collected whilst identifying the key factors. The canvas therefore complements the board in my approach.) Additionally, you should know who your main competitors are.

Strategy

Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

But synthesising information into insight is an art form and an exercise in restraint. From focus groups to customer service feedback to analytics to surveys to personal experience, product teams swim in an ocean of information coming from various functional teams.

Customer Feedback

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.”

Vision

Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

These numbers will come as the result of all the micro-decisions we make every day, consciously or not–it’s an implicit strategy (which through this exercise has been made explicit). . Is this thing you’re asking with our mission, vision, value proposition? Does it contribute to our current goals at all? Does it require a large effort?

Customer Experience

The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

Let’s talk about how to define a product vision, and why the lack of a product vision is so detrimental to your team. As I’ll explain below, the “why” and “where” form your product vision, and your product team (especially your engineers), not only want this from you, but need it in order to do their best work. Directionality.

Vision

The Product Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

You have to work with different stakeholders to define the product vision and strategy, define the set of features that the product will have and figure out a rollout plan. Define Product Vision and Strategy. I recommend you also add to this board the product vision as suggested by Roman Pitchler’s Product Vision Board.

Roadmap

The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

It’ll describe some points divided as follows: Setting the product vision Getting people onboard (stakeholder management) to make it happen How to talk with other areas to get to this vision Why is setting a Product Vision important? Alice Product Manager”- Without Product Vision, any direction will be taken.

Vision

The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

Some fundamental principles I found helpful when starting this exercise, Keep it short and sweet so that you can quickly memorize the core message. Overall, some valuable lessons captured from this exercise, “How does this strategy framing help translate into actions?”. Make a list of the scope and the challenges to your product.

Feedback Software

Product Management University

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Resetting Your Customer Retention Priorities: A Team Exercise. Treat this as a collaborative product management team exercise, not an exercise for each product manager. Here’s the most important part of this exercise. Creating Your Product Vision: Two Parts Customer, One Part Product. Seize the opportunity.

Customer Experience

Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

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.

Feedback Software

The Product Guy

MAY 21, 2018

The big vision was clearly overwhelming – we wanted to change how customers interact on the site; we wanted to build the brand new structure to support a new type of customers, to build the internal admin functions to facilitate internal efficiency; and we wanted to holistically rethink everything to link all the above components.

User Friction

Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 27, 2018

The tool that brings order to the chaos is vision. The product vision is like the guiding northern light for the product team, keeping everyone moving in the same direction. It is the responsibility of the product manager to create and share the product vision. Very few great product vision examples exist.

Vision

Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 30, 2023

18:41] How does the use case impact product vision and decision-making? The use case is like a magnifying glass that bring the product vision into focus. Product vision is high-level goals matched with market expectations and opportunity. The toughest thing to do is ask the right question. [18:41]

User Testing

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. To effectively staff the product team, I recommend including the people shown in Figure 1. [1] Let’s take a look at them.

Reporting Tools

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

AUGUST 20, 2020

Product Vision or Product Vision Statement is the long-term goal for a product includes the long-term mission and the motivation behind its creation, along with why it’s important. Product visions, ultimately, serve as the guideposts for the development of the products. What is a Product Vision?

Vision

The Product Guy

MAY 3, 2018

This process of allowing these different channels to paint the clearest perspective of that user is invaluable in making sure that product is being built with the user’s goal in the products vision. The value that your product brings to your users comes from taking the vision of the user your team has assembled.

User Testing

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2022

Product design workshops are an opportunity for a team to untangle a problem together by going through a series of group exercises designed to get to a specific outcome. Take the example of a multipart workshop we ran about the vision of our support products. Warm-up exercise. Exercises (30 min). Intro (5 min).

Workshop

Product Talk

OCTOBER 4, 2023

– Tweet This I’ve written before that date-based “ roadmaps are exercises in futility.” Communicate Your Vision and Your Process Finally, you want to commit to communicating your vision and your process with your stakeholders. They set unrealistic expectations and destroy trust when you can’t uphold them.

Roadmap

Lenny Rachitsky

OCTOBER 6, 2024

To improve your vision and strategy skills: Immerse yourself deeply in your domain for an extended period. Once you have a solid vision, share it with your team. Previously, he was Head of Product for Commercialization at Waymo and led product teams at DoorDash. JM is also a coach and advisor focused on conscious leadership.

Vision

Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

Below is a brief overview of the framework that I use and a few signs of where you should start if you want to run this exercise yourself. Siloed Teams : Teams work in isolation rather than collaboratively, resulting in inefficiencies and a lack of unified vision or approach. Did it help?

Weak Development Team

Product Talk

DECEMBER 27, 2023

“The majority of the attendees had little experience with JTBD, apart from one participant who was more purist about its application and wanted to do some job-mapping exercises before doing the interview,” says Lily. Ultimately, Lily sees the chance to expand ProductPlay to a much broader audience.

User Testing

Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Prioritization is mostly a rational exercise. I love the quote, ‘Be stubborn on vision, but flexible on details.’ Start with a clear vision of what you want your mobile customer experience to be, and make sure you gather feedback and measure how you’re doing. How can teams respond quickly to what they learn?

Product Research

Productside

OCTOBER 8, 2024

To meet these objectives, Productside delivered a tailored Optimal Product Management course featuring custom exercises designed to tackle the company’s unique challenges. Productside’s ability to customize training exercises to the needs of their company was crucial in addressing the specific challenges faced by the Charles River team.

Product Research