The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

But how does this translate to product management and organizational strategy? This perspective can help product managers identify root causes of challenges, anticipate unintended consequences, and understand how small changes in one area might ripple across the organization.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In this ProductTank Wellington talk, Andrew Tokeley, Product Leadership Coach, explains why strategy is a big part of trying to help product managers connect the dots and prove the value of what they’re working on and why many can struggle with lack of strategy. [.]

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Leadership without authority is product management 101. But as a product executive, you must take it to the next level — and this time use it with the entire management team. Image by Denis Doukhan from Pixabay In the CPO Bootcamp we talk a lot about product strategy.

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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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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 14, 2021

What really is the difference between managing and leading your product. Don’t product managers need to be able to both manage and lead? In this piece, we'll delve into why product leaders should care about both. [.]

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Unlike a line manager, you usually don’t manage the development team and stakeholders as the person in charge of the product, and the individuals don’t report to you. The stakeholders come from different business units, for example, marketing, sales, support, and service for a commercial product. No Transactional Power.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Unlike a line manager, you usually don’t manage the development team and stakeholders as the person in charge of the product, and the individuals don’t report to you. The stakeholders come from different business units, for example, marketing, sales, support, and service for a commercial product. No Transactional Power.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

Expanding on a recent post ( Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies ), I’ve been seeing lots of maker teams (product, engineering, design) struggling to form product strategies without a company strategy to hang them on.  Why is this so critical to Product Management and the larger maker organization? 

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

A four-layer framework to create a winning product strategy Today we are talking about creating product strategy. Bob is the author of the book Creative Strategy Generation. I first heard of Bob when he was the president of Sequent Learning, the product management training company.

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Userpilot

JULY 24, 2024

Launching a product without a well-defined product strategy framework is similar—you risk wasting resources without a clear path to success. So, how do you outline a product strategy framework that is the foundation of product-led growth ? Product strategies help you design and grow your products.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

There’s no separate ‘product strategy’ from company strategy?—?strategy strategy needs to be cross-departmental. Using the ‘Kernel’ from Richard Rumelt’s ‘Good Strategy/Bad Strategy’, specifically insights and developing a guiding policy allows you to enable your team and avoid micro-managing.

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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. A good strategy consists of a diagnosis, guiding policy, and coherent actions. Why is product strategy so hard? “What is product strategy?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2022

The success of any product strategy depends on the attributes and dedication of a quality product manager. Let’s explore 40 attributes… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. Here is how it works.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Often we talk more about the technical skills, like, portfolio management, being more strategic, etc but being good at those things mean nothing if you can’t build a culture conducive to good product management practices. Setting an awesome strategy without building the enablers to executing on it is just a pipe-dream.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. Here is how it works.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

I've been reflecting on the last decade in Product Management. Not every company has seen all these changes, but by and large I think it's been a positive push forward and I'm proud of where we've come from and where we have gotten to. -- 2014: "I do not need Product Managers, I can run my company myself,I have the strategy."

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 16, 2022

Imagine that John is a sales rep and a key stakeholder who hardly ever attends the product strategy workshops you’ve invited him to. Instead, he requests product roadmap changes by talking directly to you. Why is Empathy Important in Product Management? Cultivate Curiosity and Open-mindedness.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 1, 2022

How product managers can empower teams to create a winning product strategy. We hear a lot about strategy and that product managers need to create a product strategy. In practice, what does that mean and how does a product strategy help you be more successful?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Jack Welch Product strategists = coaches You, as the product strategist, are the coach. The product strategy acts as the playbook for the team, taking them to victory. Products without a product strategist are like athletes without a coach, wandering campus unable to find the gym, let alone execute a successful practice.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The Eight Core Elements of a Winning Product Strategy “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”?—?Michael After what seemed like months of work, our product was emerging from stealth mode. The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. No choices = no product strategy. Choice made.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2019

One of the biggest challenges product leaders face is convincing leadership of changes in product strategy. In addition, setting the proper expectations with leadership is a key element for managing your stakeholders. That enables you to ask leadership what they want to change.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Leadership without authority is product management 101. But as a product executive, you must take it to the next level?—?and and this time use it with the entire management team. Last week’s learning session in the CPO Bootcamp was dedicated to product strategy. You have what it takes to do it well.

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Bain Public

MAY 26, 2022

Over the last decade, there has been advancements in the product world where the CEO is no longer the only one who calls the shots; now, there is a Product Leadership Team (PLT) who is supposed to work collaboratively with the product manager on defining the next set of features of a product.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

To survive and succeed, your product leadership must be sharper than ever. You need to have a product strategy. As I said in the past, a product strategy has to make sense to you before you invest anyone else’s work in it. The World Health Organization just removed the travel warning for the area.

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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. Also, be mindful that the team who are left will find themselves with a case of survivor guilt. What about AI?

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

There are many moving parts to product success, including understanding your market and the problems customers in the market face, … Continue reading → Building software platforms and applications that customers love, and will recommend to their peers, takes extreme focus and hard work.

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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

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 1 — Seed) A good product strategy is something every company needs. Here is how a product strategy can help you create business results, even when the market is not in your favor. Product strategy is such a vague term for most people.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Goals in Product Management. As I explain in my book How to Lead in Product Management , setting the right goals is crucial to align stakeholders and development teams and to achieve product success. Does this mean that there is a natural fit between goals in product management and OKRs?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 27, 2024

The role of Product Management has dramatically transformed over the past two to three decades. To dive deeper into this topic, we spoke with John Zilch, a passionate product leader with over a decade of product experience in various product roles. John’s journey in Product Management is insightful and inspiring.

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People-First Product Leadership

JUNE 11, 2023

He stood out from the other managers as he didn’t come across as a hot head, prima donna or just a total jerk. Yet the principles he espoused are and apply directly to today’s working environment - especially for manager’s seeking to create top performing product teams. We have a Product team to lead.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 20, 2019

In addition to my formal coaching of product leaders (Directors, VPs and CPOs who directly manage teams of product managers), I talk with lots of senior individual contributors about the risks and challenges of moving “up the ladder” into product leadership roles. Growing others, strategy, air cover?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

What’s more, it makes it unlikely that the stakeholders will fully support the product decisions and that they will follow them through. But do not accept inappropriate behaviour and do not allow people to treat you like a project manager, team lead, or personal assistant. Increase your product management expertise.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 7, 2020

When I started my career as an engineer, I didn’t set my sights on becoming a product manager. Flash forward fifteen years later, and I’m the Director of Product Management at HG Insights. So, what qualities does it take to become a product manager ? 4 Key Differences in Skills Engineer to Product Manager.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 12, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] The Core Product Team Product teams come in different shapes and sizes. But all product teams I have seen consisted of the person in charge of the product—the product manager or Scrum product owner —and development team members.

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