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

Product Innovation Educators

Key Challenges in Strategic Product Leadership During our discussion, Atif identifies three main challenges that senior leaders face when developing and implementing product strategy: 1. The methods and frameworks we discussed can help product leaders work through strategic challenges more effectively.

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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. A simple representation for our product strategy. Every release or sprint can use it as a guideline.

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A Learning Roadmap for Product People

Roman Pichler

Second, a learning roadmap allows you to leverage your product roadmapping skills and use them to create an actionable learning plan. For example, the guidelines I have developed for the GO product roadmap template directly apply to the roadmap in figure 1. If that’s the case, then don’t feel bad.

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Product Strategy Lessons From Henry Ford

The Product Coalition

In our world, this would have been considered a great product strategy. As you are reading this, replace Ford’s car with your own product. Are you following these guidelines, or are you making avoidable mistakes? What people usually call strategy is in many cases just a general direction. reliability for example?—?and

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10 Tips for Effective Product Management Meetings

Roman Pichler

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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527: The truth behind “CEO of the Product” – with Francesca Cortesi

Product Innovation Educators

Instead of preparing perfect presentations for the boardroom, successful product managers: 1. Incorporate diverse viewpoints into product strategy 4. As organizations grow, product management roles typically become more specialized and focused on smaller components of the overall product strategy.

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Product Strategy 101: It’s About Depth, Not (Just) Vision

The Product Coalition

Product strategy is one of the most important tasks of the product leader, and definitely one of the hardest things to do. This should be your first step into product strategy. Since product strategy is so hard, many companies simply skip it. in detail?—?which

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