Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Product (and company) strategy is the backbone that guides product goal-setting and roadmap definition, although it’s sometimes overlooked or confused with having a vision. Without it, product teams become feature teams focused on outputs and not outcomes. The Approach (the Frameworks).

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Dear Strategy

MARCH 15, 2023

Now what about the new framework? In the spirit of using the blog to announce new happenings at Strategy Generation Company , I am pleased to present the latest revision of our acclaimed Strategy Generation Framework! With this said, I found that too many of my clients tended to use these three terms interchangeably.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Most companies don’t have a clear picture of their roadmap. Bain Public’s SOAP™ methodology and tool offers a full picture of your product strategy, tactics, metrics and roadmap all in one place. It breaks product innovation in 3 steps -- Product Mission, Product Blueprint and Roadmap Pillars.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership. Aspects which are more on the human skills end of the spectrum and vastly different from being a Product Manager. Shift #1: A leader of leaders The two top things I’ve head people reply to the question “how do I move into Product Leadership?”

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

3 Different Types of Roadmaps Every PM Needs to Master Roadmapping is not easy. Every company demands different types of Roadmaps, and every PM has their own flavour. Here is a step by step process to create roadmaps so you can influence anyone in your company like a true Jedi. So what is Product Roadmap?

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People-First Product Leadership

JUNE 11, 2023

Be Curious Not Judgmental: In my course People-First Product Leadership , I do just that - I share how to put people on your team first. The author is anti-framework, yet ultimately provides a framework for product leaders to follow when creating a product vision. We have a Product team to lead.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

A strong product strategy is often neglected because of the absence of any strategic thinking in product teams. What can product managers do to make sure they give their product strategy the attention it warrants? But today many, if not most, product teams fail this very first test.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 28, 2022

Photo by Kampus Production from Pexels I always try to practice what I preach. When I talk about product strategy, I apply the same methodologies to my own company although my product is not technological. Here is how to regain focus and help everyone understand what they need and needn’t do.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Even among experienced product professionals, a common misconception in business holds that product strategy and business strategy mean the same thing. Product professionals need to understand the distinction between business strategy vs. product strategy. A Closer Look at Each Strategy.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Scrum is a popular agile framework. This team consists of a product owner , a Scrum Master , and several developers, which are also known as development team. But what Scrum lacks in my mind, is a way to involve the key stakeholders in strategic product decisions and the product discovery work.

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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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Dear Strategy

MARCH 15, 2023

Now what about the new framework? In the spirit of using the blog to announce new happenings at Strategy Generation Company , I am pleased to present the latest revision of our acclaimed Strategy Generation Framework! With this said, I found that too many of my clients tended to use these three terms interchangeably.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I’ve been a product leader for over a decade. I’ve reviewed roadmaps for hundreds of different products. I’ve participated in more roadmap review meetings than I can remember. And until now, I never thought to share the view a product leader has on roadmaps — at least publicly. Why share now?

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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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The Product Coalition

MAY 31, 2021

Leading Complex Initiatives As a Product Leader, you will be expected to lead and drive initiatives that span across an organization. Your leadership team, stakeholders, and individuals doing the work all need to trust that your influence will result in better outcomes. But that’s the work of a Product Leader?—?lots

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

This article explores both hard and soft skills that product managers need in their everyday work, so if you’re curious to learn more, dive right in. TL;DR Hard skills, like technical knowledge, are job-specific and enable product managers to perform their core responsibilities. Product manager skills: user path analysis.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

The product management process starts with building an understanding of your users and the market, defining a vision and strategy , generating and prioritizing ideas that could solve user problems, articulating them in a clear roadmap, launching an MVP, and then gathering feedback to evolve it over time.

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Bain Public

APRIL 17, 2020

Career Development Program Details: Whether you are a Founder or part of the Product, Engineering or leadership team, you need actionable strategies and impactful techniques that drive results today. The 3 steps to product innovation. Where do I manage the roadmap? I'm not very good at Product Management.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 11, 2024

Goal-Question-Metrics (GQMs) is a strategic framework used to define goals, ask relevant questions, and improve metrics. The GQM framework was originally created while evaluating project defects in NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Define specific goals : Set specific and achievable goals in alignment with your product strategy.

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ProductPlan

JULY 16, 2021

Product Manager’s Control of Employee Expectations. As a product manager, implementing an effective product strategy should remain a priority. Setting the Stage for Successful Context-Based Leadership. As any veteran product leader knows, there’s no better tool to facilitate that than the product roadmap.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In this episode, we discuss: • How product management is different in India • How to rethink your approach to new users • How Anuj operationalizes the “working backwards” framework • Why Anuj thinks PMs should be more full-stack than they are • How to use Anuj’s “4BB” framework to get better (..)

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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. Identifying Bottlenecks I write here a lot about the pirates’ metrics framework.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

Meanwhile, the slow, steady drumbeat of cautious experimentation and incremental enhancements always makes the product better. It’s not sexy and won’t land the leadership team any TED Talks. A clear product vision Every business and product needs a vision to guide everything that follows, from strategy to staffing to roadmaps.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 12, 2022

Slack’s product strategy put it on a trajectory for success. So far, Salesforce only plans to add the messaging app to its enterprise software suite without immediately changing Slack’s functionality, branding, or leadership. Let’s explore the company’s product strategy to see what makes it different.

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Innovatemap

AUGUST 31, 2020

Some choices are long-standing and are reflected in the product vision, some play into the foundation of a product strategy, and many more reside in the plan to pull it off – the roadmap. All of these are important frameworks and tools. A roadmap often includes a visual representation of the plan over time.

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

As business advisors and executive coaches, we've worked with dozens of CEOs to help them build and grow their product leadership team as they scale their company. Getting external support, such as product management consulting, can help establish the product leadership team responsible for nurturing and guiding the product team.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

When your product can do more than it could do before, that sounds like a good thing. Added functionality, new capabilities, a more robust feature set…these are the talking points product marketers salivate over and executives search for on product roadmaps. But are you solving for actual customer problems?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

This article provides analytical framework and tactical steps to collect targeted customer feedback to improve B2B SaaS products. The same approach with a few alterations can be replicated for B2C SaaS products as well. this is my main goal for doing different analyses that I do in my current role as a Product Manager.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

Examples of different prioritization frameworks. TL;DR A feature prioritization matrix helps product teams decide which features to develop next, focusing on high-impact features and resource optimization. There are a number of different prioritization frameworks , like RICE, Story Mapping, Opportunity Scoring, ICE, and the Kano Model.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If you are the new product leader of your company, your company might be in product leadership debt. In such situations, you would typically be asked to come up with a strategy and roadmap ASAP, but you are still just learning the domain. Typically, the CEO will ask for a strategy or a roadmap.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I wanted to share what I believe are the top ten most important deliverables for product managers across each of the four dimensions of product management. I find that a product walkthrough is often needed when you are trying to make the case to leadership to green-light a new venture based on the strength of your vision for it.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

UX vision is a clear and inspiring statement that guides the long-term design strategy and keeps teams and stakeholders on the same page. Goals are the specific UX objectives the product aspires to achieve, for example, improving usability. The plan, often depicted in a UX roadmap, outlines the work necessary to achieve the goals.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

Because of the multifaceted nature of this role, it can be hard to figure out what you should look for in a new product management hire. TL;DR Product managers need to have good problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills. Leadership. What is product vision? How to set a product strategy?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This playbook focuses on the essential elements for running a Product Development Health Check, including the key concepts, five key elements to check, what healthy product development looks like, and next steps. Why is a Product Development Health Check Necessary?

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 19, 2021

I know you’re probably wondering: what does this have to do with your product roadmap strategies ? When it comes to your product, a MOAT is about building defences to break away from the competition. It’s about setting broad goals for your product and defending your company against current or future competitors.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. The best product managers are in a continuous state of discovery and know that?—? neither the product nor roadmap are ever static. That’s why we’ve listed 12 tools that the best product managers use to do their jobs better?—?and

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

The Reforge blog helps product managers with topics like analytics , team management and development, product leadership , or product strategy. Women in Product aims to empower female product managers and the blog is one of the channels they use. Teresa Torres on Continuous Product Discovery.

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