BrainMates

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Disrupting the Product - Strategy Questions Answered By DIANE SEXTON Even though periods of decline are a normal part of the economic cycle, there is no denying the enormous pressure these periods place on our organisations. I believe the best strategy is to really go back to your roots. What is the vision that you started with?

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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.

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People-First Product Leadership

JUNE 11, 2023

Does your team (or organization) have a shared Mission, Vision, Strategy, and Goals? 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. A good vision should be clear, punchy, and inspiring. We have a Product team to lead.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Grow Your Leadership Skills. Group dynamics: You know what it takes for a group of people to effectively work together , and you are able to help a group of individuals jell.

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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. Product Strategy in an Agile World Marty Cagan.

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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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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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Userpilot

APRIL 25, 2022

What is product leadership and how is it different from product management ? In the article, we’ll be discussing what the product leadership role entails and how it is different from the product management role. Product leaders are responsible for building the right teams and organizational cultures.

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Ronke PM

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Use your leadership voice to bring out change. Be passionate and always curious about your product. You must have exceptional communication skills to bring your product strategy and vision to fruition. Here are my 15 rules of great product leadership: 1. Use your leadership voice to bring out change.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

For a commercial, revenue-generating product the key stakeholders might include a marketer, sales rep, and customer service rep, for instance. Consequently, a product team is a cross-functional group that comprises everyone required to progress the product and achieve product success.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Held in the lovely Barbican Conservatory , this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum brought together a group of senior product leaders for the type of conversations that can only happen behind closed doors. The Forgotten art of Product Strategy. Visions are About the Future.

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Amplitude

JULY 29, 2020

When it comes to product strategy, there is so much conflicting advice that getting started can be confusing. Some companies’ strategies are so generic that they could mean anything, or nothing at all—as perfectly illustrated in this product strategy madlibs , which fills in the blanks with buzzwords and jargon and calls it a strategy.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

The value the product should create is not clearly understood : A validated product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are missing. If this data is actioned, bad product decisions will be made. Do this at least once per quarter, as a rule of thumb, ideally as part of the product strategy reviews.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes. They lack vision and lead nowhere. Strategic value is about aligning features with the company’s vision and long-term goals.

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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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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Grow Your Leadership Skills. Group dynamics: You know what it takes for a group of people to effectively work together , and you are able to help a group of individuals jell.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

You can download the template for free from romanpichler.com/tools, and you can find more information on how to use it in my post The GO Product Roadmap. I like to use my Product Vision Board to develop a valid product strategy. Keep your roadmap realistic: Don’t speculate and don’t oversell your product.

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

At the heart of an organization that creates product magic is a product leader who is an expert at leadership and coalition building. These leaders understand that bringing effective products, solutions, and services to market requires consensus building and engaging cross-functional teams in the journey.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

The product manager role meets at the intersection of three disciplines: Business Technology User experience (UX) With those skills, you contribute to everything from product vision to product development. You will also leverage your strategic thinking skills to create a product vision and its corresponding roadmap.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

TL;DR Hard skills, like technical knowledge, are job-specific and enable product managers to perform their core responsibilities. Soft skills, like communication or leadership , are more general and can be used in different contexts. Hard product management skills Let’s start with the hard skills.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder).

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

We’re a scheduling company, so we make finding mutual availability between groups of people fairly easy. You have this grand vision. I know in a lot of feature factories, product teams don’t engage with customers that often. What’s the vision? The vision is flight level one for me. Do some tech debt.’

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Mind the Product

JUNE 7, 2018

Map Your Products to the Lifecycle. You need to map each of your products to the lifecycle. This then gives you the objectives and investment required for each of them – which is the start of a product strategy. You Have to Kill Some Products. Be a virus. Get some air cover.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

The main difference between product management and project management is the focus. A project manager is focused on the completion of a specific project, whereas product managers focus primarily on the long-term vision and evolving a product to deliver value over time. Champions a customer-centric approach.

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People-First Product Leadership

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Today I am going to cover Part 1 of how to create a strategy stack for your organization and product team. The focus will be on the Mission, North Star and Vision. In Part 2 , we’ll cover the Organization’s Strategy and Goals. Ignore your strategy.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

You have to earn the necessary digital product management and lead skills and demonstrate them to potential employers with confidence. A product lead or the lead product manager is often an experienced senior professional who drives the product strategy, leading and supervising a product team.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 16, 2020

So if there’s one thing that I hope our Pulse for Product attendees feel, it’s that product has never been more important. There’s no blank slate; there’s simply the product manager’s vision for what it could be. The Impact of NRR on Valuation for Public SaaS Companies, Software Equity Group; July 2020 [link].

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Assess product strategy and adjust if necessary.

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Sequent Learning

JULY 25, 2019

Start With A Vision. Your success as a product manager is pinned directly to the positive contributions to the firm’s bottom line. That means, your product’s business needs to hit the target in the market and fulfill your commitment to the bottom line of the company. Vision stems from passion for an idea, a cause, a goal.

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Bain Public

APRIL 15, 2018

But this is an article about your CEO’s duty to set a vision, to define why your company exists. For some product managers, the thought of talking openly about the void left by a missing vision statement is paralyzing. And as a product leader gets more senior, the need to clearly define the product strategy intensifies.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 9, 2021

We had a group of new hires ready and excited to join Intercom the following Monday, expecting to meet lots of folks in the office, join brainstorming sessions in a conference room, and grab a nice cup of coffee or a cold beer at a local bar with their new teammates after work. Product demos . They are: . Core business learnings.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

That gives you the experience and expertise to get to the next level, where you start managing other product managers. Over time, potential product directors need to show an ability to lead the entire product team. On top of that, they need to show success in every product strategy they own.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A robust UX strategy is also a valuable differentiator helping you stand out in competitive markets. According to Jamie Levy, the main tenets of a UX strategy are business strategy, value innovation, validated user research , and frictionless UX. Start designing your strategy by clarifying the business goals.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables. Vision: Vision Narrative. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2022

primarily focused on product teams, helping them be great at the discovery work that is at the heart of what they do Leadership coaching?—?focused focused on helping product leaders thrive and lead the product organization effectively as well as the product strategy in the right direction Transformational coaching?—?working

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