Product Culture

JULY 6, 2022

When working on vision with stakeholders, I like the Cover Story exercise, which I outlined last week. A great exercise to follow the Cover Story is the Back-Plan. Subscribe to my weekly Nano-letter: Sign Up. Subscribe to One Thing Weekly. First Name. Our Privacy Policy. *.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 7, 2022

This vision holds true with our own organization as well. This year, we focus on the major priorities that help us achieve our vision while maintaining an easy-to-use, delightful, and flexible user experience. Through this exercise, we have uncovered helpful best practices and tips for creating your own customer-facing roadmap.

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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.

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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).

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ProductPlan

JULY 23, 2019

Product managers wear many hats, but one of the most uncomfortable ones they’re forced to occasionally don is that of the product vision “Gatekeeper.” The harder part is shooting things down that aren’t bad at face value, but don’t match up with the strategy, vision, and timeline of the overall product.

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Radical Product

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Defining your Why Before setting out to delight customers, we need to start with a clear vision for the change we want to bring about. In shifting to a purpose-driven approach, Paul defined his product vision as promoting kindness among coffee drinkers and Nack was his mechanism for bringing about his change.

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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.

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UX Studio

MAY 2, 2018

How To Create A Convincing Product Vision To Guide Your Team. The post How To Be More Creative: Simple Exercises For Your Team appeared first on UX Studio. Other posts about the relationship between creativity and UX? Distraction Is a Designer Drug. You Are an Addict, Too. The Studio Model: A Framework For Self-Organizing Teams.

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Sequent Learning

JULY 25, 2019

Start With A Vision. 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. One reason is that not all product managers have the innate sense of a vision for the product.

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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. Common themes in product strategy Product strategy writing illustrates that strategy is the link between vision and roadmaps / plans. In product development this the product vision.

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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.

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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?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 14, 2020

The Steps and Exercises of the Product Mindset Workshop The product mindset workshop comprises of seven steps, starting with the product vision to the business model to personas to ideation: 1. Product Vision We start the workshop with a recap of the product vision?—?why our product vision?—?is Show Me the Money?—?the

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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.

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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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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

These 8 dimensions will be pillars of driving the vision and business outcomes right after the launch. The important point is before jumping to create the strategy, I suggested spending a good time on a small exercise of understanding the Buyer persona to understand the buyer thinking, business goals, channels, influencers, approach etc.

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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]

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Product Culture

DECEMBER 15, 2021

There are numerous ways to come up with a product vision. Hopes and Fears is a simple exercise where each individual writes their hopes for the product’s future on one color of Post-it note or index card and then writes their fears on another color. Other ways to reach a vision? Tell me a story. Interested?

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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%

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 21, 2024

Strategies are fundamentally about what you’ll do in response to a challenge. Richard says you should replace the term strategy altogether and just call it an “action agenda.”

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2023

Sketching exercises and paper prototypes can take this one step further so you can walk away with tangible and directional potential solutions. When your brand DNA is well defined, it keeps innovation aligned with your vision for the future. It also helps your teams feel more confident when making choices about what to pursue.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

Some teams do a team brainstorm and voting exercise to develop their roadmap. In this course we’ll introduce 4D roadmaps, a tool for developing highly strategic roadmaps that balance your long-term vision with customer feedback and short-term business priorities. This is due to the very process by which the roadmap is developed.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The first one occurring in November will be on high level vision, strategy, tactics and metrics. These in person workshops will include both theory and hands-on exercises, which will give the growing startups the tools and skills to accurately explain their vision to their team.

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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. Michael Porter There I sat, facing a significant strategic choice.

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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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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

OCTOBER 5, 2020

From Product Vision to User Stories to Roadmap Tools In my experience, product roadmaps work best as an extension to the Product Backlog. In my experience, this approach has its merits if you keep the following first principles of product roadmaps in mind: You don’t have a product Vision? not just once a year.

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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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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

A thorough persona workshop, including profile building and persona activating exercise, can take up to two days. Persona Activating Exercises. If time allows, I strongly recommend you do some persona activating exercises. The two most frequent exercises I use in my workshops are: Write lines. Prioritization.

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Mind the Product

JULY 1, 2019

In this post, I look at the value of asking great questions, cover a few strong sample questions and suggest some exercises to help you generate your own insightful questions. This is not a “one size fits all” exercise. The goal here is to learn about the product vision. A Starter List of Solid Questions to Consider.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 12, 2021

It’s about turning a vision into reality. But connecting the dots between the activities of a particular product development team and the overarching corporate vision can be a bit of a stretch for those not steeped in the strategic exercises occurring at the top of the organization. Putting Vision into Context.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Without coherent and well communicated visions, strategy, and problems, shared understanding is as rare as a a vowel in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. We don’t gain understanding, move on, forget about it, and start again on the next ‘ticket’.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

When Teresa started working with the team at Airship, she led them through the “How to Make Toast” exercise to help clarify orchestration. Principal Engineer Todd Johnson walks the team through orchestration based on the results of the exercise. Widening the Scope from Solutions to Opportunities.

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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. Achieving great things takes planning.

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Modus Create

APRIL 30, 2020

Just like building a house, if a product’s vision, blueprint, or the foundation is wrong, the output has serious problems. In many software projects, there are subtle differences in understanding the ultimate vision for the project. Product Vision and Goals. This is Modus Kickstart objective #1: alignment.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2023

How can I continuously reinforce the collective vision and purpose, fostering a sense of meaning and fulfillment within the team? The most helpful exercise, in my opinion that cultivates self-awareness is meditation. Do I consistently align my actions and decisions with our shared purpose?

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