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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? Tanya shares her ideas for nurturing a strong product strategy from this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum. But today many, if not most, product teams fail this very first test. MORE
Melissa Perri is the product manager’s product manager – she’s able to do the job, explain it, and teach you how to do it better. So when we got her on the line, we covered everything… including Japanese deployment strategies, Marmite and peanut butter, product leadership and team organisation, how companies scale, how to pick the right environment for you, and even her new book, Escaping the Build Trap. MORE
Leadership without authority is product management 101. But as a product executive, you must take it to the next level?—?and Last week’s learning session in the CPO Bootcamp was dedicated to product strategy. Why should I as a product leader even get into this? MORE
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. So I have a strong sense of what product managers want. But — like all good product folks — I also want to anchor my personal opinions in market data. What does a product leader actually do? MORE
This time, our meetup theme was “Product Management, Strategy & Leadership” and it was a great pleasure for us to host our invited speakers: Jay Fong, Product Strategy Lead ( honestbee Singapore ). Mike Dickinson, Chief Product Officer ( Xendit ). Jay’s talk covers how startups and organizations can leverage on data analytics to enhance their understanding of users and build customer-centric products. MORE
Topic: Covid19’s Impact On Your Product Strategy. But now many of us in product or development organizations are shifting attention to how this crisis changes priorities and product plans. Product Management Upcoming Events agile customer thinking economics leadership markets product management roadmapsWhen: Tuesday 12 May , 10am PT / 12:00pm CT / 1pm ET. Hosted by: Synerzip. Register here. MORE
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. If you can clearly present to leadership that you have product-market fit and stickiness of customers, that’s a strong justification for more focus or resources on the growth side of the equation. MORE
Choosing the right product strategy framework is very important for every product manager. Remember, choosing the right product strategy will go a long way in making sure that the entire product life cycle proceeds flawlessly. To put it more bluntly, many product managers do not spend sufficient time in choosing the right strategy. Learn the top skills of product management. The wrong strategy can result in the failure of a product. MORE
Having received far more questions than she could answer in a single session, Beth is back by popular demand to share her expertise on collaborating closely with product teams and how experience research can influence and advance product strategy. How do you organize and store research data for future product planning? Can you give an example of a case where your research findings have changed product focus or strategy? MORE
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. You rely on them to design, implement, market, sell, and support the product. Show people that you value their ideas and concerns and involve them in product decisions. The stakeholders come from different business units, for example, marketing, sales, support, and service for a commercial product. MORE
Strategic product thinking is hard. Especially when done as an afterthought - when the product is already in the market?—?it These four components are the market, the problem, the solution, and the product itself. Finally, make sure to conduct product validation once you’re done. MORE
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. MORE
There are many moving parts to product success, including understanding your market and the problems customers in the market face, … Continue reading → Leadership Product Management Team Building Trust collaboration discipline execution markets roadmap strategy success value MORE
In this talk from ProductTank London, Susana Lopes (Director of Product at Onfido), talks about how Onfido moved from prioritising at the sprint & quarterly level to setting strategic direction and prioritise at a much larger scale. MORE
In the latest of our Prioritised AMAs, we were joined by Marty Cagan who took your questions on empowering teams, discovery challenges, Product Owners, transitioning from product role to a leadership role, and much more. MORE
The Times and The Sun, flagship brands of News UK, are on a journey to become more product led in how they develop and maintain their digital assets. To move them forward, Jo has introduced product lifecycle thinking, shared KPIs, product portfolios, and a lean process for testing new ideas. When starting to move an organisation to be more product centric, you’ll find some common characteristics. Move From Product Delivery to a Product Function. MORE
The post Making Better Predictions – Margaret Heffernan on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. Chat to us on Twitter or in our dedicated Mind the Product #podcast Slack channel. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. MORE
When it comes to product strategy, there is so much conflicting advice that getting started can be confusing. Besides being vague or gimmicky, another common product strategy pitfall is to list tactics as an overall strategy. Product Mission and Vision. MORE
Eighteen months ago travel tech company Almundo started to refine its processes to become a product-driven company. Our goal was to define how we would set and communicate the company strategy, and how that strategy would lead OKRs and backlog definition. 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. Blue Ocean Strategy – W. MORE
At ProductTank Montevideo (Mvd) we celebrated World Product Day earlier this month with a presentation from an awesome product leader, VP of Product Strategy at Rootstrap, Neville Reeves. Neville took us through how he used new mental structures to change the status quo of the company and looked at how you can rethink an organization as a product itself. Presenting the solution, he said: “This is organization as a product.” MORE
What is product leadership? In this ProductTank London talk, Hakim Mendjeli – Managing Director of French Digital , shares his perspective and experience as a practitioner of product leadership in the financial services industry. Products in the financial sector. What a product leader does. Hakim shares his background working in product strategy at large organizations as well as product management at smaller startups. MORE
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 ? Great products take time. MORE
You may have experienced this yourself working on a digital product that never came close to realizing it’s potential. One of the reasons that so many organizations fail at delivering valuable products and services is the lack of a well-defined strategy or the complete absence of a strategy. […]. The post Taking Your Digital Product Strategy from Vision to Execution appeared first on EMERGE | Digital Product Agency. MORE
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. You rely on them to design, implement, market, sell, and support the product. Show people that you value their ideas and concerns and involve them in product decisions. The stakeholders come from different business units, for example, marketing, sales, support, and service for a commercial product. MORE
Your Product strategy is the most important long-term document you ever create for a Product. It helps you imagine the future of your Product. But before you can craft your Product strategy you need to know — what’s going on? What’s going on with your existing customers should be the first area you focus on in the strategy development process. Some things you should know are: What problem is your Product solving? MORE
Your Product strategy is the most important long-term document you ever create for a Product. It helps you imagine the future of your Product. But before you can craft your Product strategy you need to know — what’s going on? What’s going on with your existing customers should be the first area you focus on in the strategy development process. Some things you should know are: What problem is your Product solving? MORE
Neil Rahilly is our VP of Product and Design at Mixpanel and formerly our VP of Engineering. In addition to running product and design, he also oversees our support and education teams. Neil recently sat down for an AMA session and spoke on a wide range of topics, from product strategy and process pipelines to team composition and building a great career, among many other things. How do you define your product strategy? MORE
Stepping up into a leadership role is especially daunting. Product leadership is made even more challenging, as there are very few models (if any) that cover the complexities and requirements of this -broad role which varies significantly between organisations. MORE
Three Types of Leadership. Scrum is a simple framework with three roles: product owner, development team, and Scrum Master. Each role provides a distinct type of leadership. As the product owner, you lead the product and are responsible for its overall success. Lead the Product. Providing the right product leadership is demanding; it requires a specific skills set and usually your full attention as the person in charge of the product. MORE
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. As a result, all of the issues discussed were under the Chatham House rule , so you won’t see any direct quotes, but everything reported here comes from the most forward-thinking people in the world of product. The Forgotten art of Product Strategy. MORE
As Mixpanel’s VP of Product and Design, and our former Head of Engineering, Neil Rahilly brings a blend of strategy, hiring, management, and career advice to those who want to push innovation at their companies forward. Distilling knowledge from multiple disciplines, this AMA session from Rahilly helps turn amorphous concepts in product management into a tangible guide. How do you define your product strategy? MORE
Challenging situations are great opportunities to grow as a human being and by doing so, you increase your leadership power. To increase your expertise, strengthen your understanding of the market or domain and the product, as well as your product management savviness. You may want to combine reviewing the market development together with the product performance in form of regular strategy and roadmap review meetings (as I discuss in more detail in my book Strategize ). MORE
When everything around you is changing, what’s a Product Manager to do? In a Q&A a couple of months ago, someone in the (virtual) audience asked if they should be working on their strategy now, or if they should wait until things calmed down again. Read more about Product Strategy. MORE
This year doesn’t just mark the start of a new decade, but also the 10th anniversary of the first ever #ProductTank (and my 20th as a Product Manager). What started as a simple meetup in London has evolved into the world’s largest product community, with chapters in over 200 cities around the world and 200,000 [.]. The post A Decade in Product – a Retrospective appeared first on Mind the Product. MORE
At our first-ever Pulse for Product event, we got inspired by this idea of video games, the nostalgia of 8-bit classics, the 90s (or really any year excluding 2020 – the bar is low), and leveling up (which ultimately became our theme for the event). But what’s life in Product like now? MORE
Increasingly product managers are expected to think and operate “strategically”, but, as this post will reveal, it’s a requirement that can lead to misaligned expectations and be full of traps for the unwary. Surely we’ve all noticed the increased emphasis on “strategy” as a core competency for product managers? But the actual work of product strategy is neither straightforward nor glamorous, and often leaves ample room for misaligned expectations. MORE
At Amplitude, we are creating a new category; using customer behavior data to help every company build better products and grow. Over the last year we have continued to see increasing demand for leveraging behavioral data at scale across the world of digital products. Today, I am excited to share that we are growing our leadership team at Amplitude with world-class executives to take on these challenges. MORE
Martin Eriksson – veteran product leader, and Mind the Product co-founder – presented his “Decision Stack” to ProductTank Lagos. The post The Product Decision Stack – Martin Eriksson appeared first on Mind the Product. MORE
He is the Chief Product Officer at Zava, a digital healthcare company offering remote diagnosis and prescriptions. If you, like Joe, feel there is a lack of resources about product management in [.]. MORE
Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. As a product person, and the VP of Product at Yesware , I’ve never come to fully embrace the discussion of what each team would deliver, in what sequence and within a long timeframe. Output-focused product roadmaps provide a false sense of certainty, all while limiting product work to a few big bets, which may or may not pan out. MORE
Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
In this talk from ProductTank London, Susana Lopes (Director of Product at Onfido), talks about how Onfido moved from prioritising at the sprint & quarterly level to setting strategic direction and prioritise at a much larger scale.
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? Tanya shares her ideas for nurturing a strong product strategy from this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum. But today many, if not most, product teams fail this very first test.
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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 → Leadership Product Management Team Building Trust collaboration discipline execution markets roadmap strategy success value
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 Last week’s learning session in the CPO Bootcamp was dedicated to product strategy. Why should I as a product leader even get into this?
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As you move into the new year you can help your product team prepare for success by exercising those product leadership muscles and implementing product management best practices. Here are our top tips for how you can lay the right foundations and get your product strategy off to a flying start.
Roman Pichler
MAY 8, 2018
Three Types of Leadership. Scrum is a simple framework with three roles: product owner, development team, and Scrum Master. Each role provides a distinct type of leadership. As the product owner, you lead the product and are responsible for its overall success. Lead the Product. Providing the right product leadership is demanding; it requires a specific skills set and usually your full attention as the person in charge of the product.
Emerge Insights
JULY 18, 2019
You may have experienced this yourself working on a digital product that never came close to realizing it’s potential. One of the reasons that so many organizations fail at delivering valuable products and services is the lack of a well-defined strategy or the complete absence of a strategy. […]. The post Taking Your Digital Product Strategy from Vision to Execution appeared first on EMERGE | Digital Product Agency.
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. You rely on them to design, implement, market, sell, and support the product. Show people that you value their ideas and concerns and involve them in product decisions. The stakeholders come from different business units, for example, marketing, sales, support, and service for a commercial product.
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. You rely on them to design, implement, market, sell, and support the product. Show people that you value their ideas and concerns and involve them in product decisions. The stakeholders come from different business units, for example, marketing, sales, support, and service for a commercial product.
The Basics of Product Management
JULY 17, 2020
Choosing the right product strategy framework is very important for every product manager. Remember, choosing the right product strategy will go a long way in making sure that the entire product life cycle proceeds flawlessly. To put it more bluntly, many product managers do not spend sufficient time in choosing the right strategy. Learn the top skills of product management. The wrong strategy can result in the failure of a product.
BrainMates
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
When everything around you is changing, what’s a Product Manager to do? In a Q&A a couple of months ago, someone in the (virtual) audience asked if they should be working on their strategy now, or if they should wait until things calmed down again. Read more about Product Strategy.
Gainsight
OCTOBER 16, 2020
At our first-ever Pulse for Product event, we got inspired by this idea of video games, the nostalgia of 8-bit classics, the 90s (or really any year excluding 2020 – the bar is low), and leveling up (which ultimately became our theme for the event). But what’s life in Product like now?
Amplitude
JULY 29, 2020
When it comes to product strategy, there is so much conflicting advice that getting started can be confusing. Besides being vague or gimmicky, another common product strategy pitfall is to list tactics as an overall strategy. Product Mission and Vision.
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. So I have a strong sense of what product managers want. But — like all good product folks — I also want to anchor my personal opinions in market data. What does a product leader actually do?
BrainMates
MARCH 11, 2020
Your Product strategy is the most important long-term document you ever create for a Product. It helps you imagine the future of your Product. But before you can craft your Product strategy you need to know — what’s going on? What’s going on with your existing customers should be the first area you focus on in the strategy development process. Some things you should know are: What problem is your Product solving?
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. As a result, all of the issues discussed were under the Chatham House rule , so you won’t see any direct quotes, but everything reported here comes from the most forward-thinking people in the world of product. The Forgotten art of Product Strategy.
Mind the Product
JANUARY 4, 2021
Martin Eriksson – veteran product leader, and Mind the Product co-founder – presented his “Decision Stack” to ProductTank Lagos. The post The Product Decision Stack – Martin Eriksson appeared first on Mind the Product.
Amplitude
MARCH 11, 2020
Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. As a product person, and the VP of Product at Yesware , I’ve never come to fully embrace the discussion of what each team would deliver, in what sequence and within a long timeframe. Output-focused product roadmaps provide a false sense of certainty, all while limiting product work to a few big bets, which may or may not pan out.
Mironov Consulting
APRIL 30, 2020
Topic: Covid19’s Impact On Your Product Strategy. But now many of us in product or development organizations are shifting attention to how this crisis changes priorities and product plans. Product Management Upcoming Events agile customer thinking economics leadership markets product management roadmapsWhen: Tuesday 12 May , 10am PT / 12:00pm CT / 1pm ET. Hosted by: Synerzip. Register here.
Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
What is product leadership? In this ProductTank London talk, Hakim Mendjeli – Managing Director of French Digital , shares his perspective and experience as a practitioner of product leadership in the financial services industry. Products in the financial sector. What a product leader does. Hakim shares his background working in product strategy at large organizations as well as product management at smaller startups.
Roman Pichler
APRIL 19, 2017
Challenging situations are great opportunities to grow as a human being and by doing so, you increase your leadership power. To increase your expertise, strengthen your understanding of the market or domain and the product, as well as your product management savviness. You may want to combine reviewing the market development together with the product performance in form of regular strategy and roadmap review meetings (as I discuss in more detail in my book Strategize ).
BrainMates
MARCH 11, 2020
Your Product strategy is the most important long-term document you ever create for a Product. It helps you imagine the future of your Product. But before you can craft your Product strategy you need to know — what’s going on? What’s going on with your existing customers should be the first area you focus on in the strategy development process. Some things you should know are: What problem is your Product solving?
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 5, 2020
He is the Chief Product Officer at Zava, a digital healthcare company offering remote diagnosis and prescriptions. If you, like Joe, feel there is a lack of resources about product management in [.].
Mixpanel
OCTOBER 6, 2020
Having received far more questions than she could answer in a single session, Beth is back by popular demand to share her expertise on collaborating closely with product teams and how experience research can influence and advance product strategy. How do you organize and store research data for future product planning? Can you give an example of a case where your research findings have changed product focus or strategy?
Mind the Product
JUNE 7, 2018
The Times and The Sun, flagship brands of News UK, are on a journey to become more product led in how they develop and maintain their digital assets. To move them forward, Jo has introduced product lifecycle thinking, shared KPIs, product portfolios, and a lean process for testing new ideas. When starting to move an organisation to be more product centric, you’ll find some common characteristics. Move From Product Delivery to a Product Function.
BrainMates
JULY 21, 2020
Stepping up into a leadership role is especially daunting. Product leadership is made even more challenging, as there are very few models (if any) that cover the complexities and requirements of this -broad role which varies significantly between organisations.
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 ? Great products take time.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 1, 2020
In the latest of our Prioritised AMAs, we were joined by Marty Cagan who took your questions on empowering teams, discovery challenges, Product Owners, transitioning from product role to a leadership role, and much more.
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. If you can clearly present to leadership that you have product-market fit and stickiness of customers, that’s a strong justification for more focus or resources on the growth side of the equation.
Amplitude
MAY 29, 2019
At Amplitude, we are creating a new category; using customer behavior data to help every company build better products and grow. Over the last year we have continued to see increasing demand for leveraging behavioral data at scale across the world of digital products. Today, I am excited to share that we are growing our leadership team at Amplitude with world-class executives to take on these challenges.
Mixpanel
MAY 12, 2020
As Mixpanel’s VP of Product and Design, and our former Head of Engineering, Neil Rahilly brings a blend of strategy, hiring, management, and career advice to those who want to push innovation at their companies forward. Distilling knowledge from multiple disciplines, this AMA session from Rahilly helps turn amorphous concepts in product management into a tangible guide. How do you define your product strategy?
Mind the Product
MAY 27, 2020
This year doesn’t just mark the start of a new decade, but also the 10th anniversary of the first ever #ProductTank (and my 20th as a Product Manager). What started as a simple meetup in London has evolved into the world’s largest product community, with chapters in over 200 cities around the world and 200,000 [.]. The post A Decade in Product – a Retrospective appeared first on Mind the Product.
Mind the Product
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
Increasingly product managers are expected to think and operate “strategically”, but, as this post will reveal, it’s a requirement that can lead to misaligned expectations and be full of traps for the unwary. Surely we’ve all noticed the increased emphasis on “strategy” as a core competency for product managers? But the actual work of product strategy is neither straightforward nor glamorous, and often leaves ample room for misaligned expectations.
Mixpanel
MAY 12, 2020
Neil Rahilly is our VP of Product and Design at Mixpanel and formerly our VP of Engineering. In addition to running product and design, he also oversees our support and education teams. Neil recently sat down for an AMA session and spoke on a wide range of topics, from product strategy and process pipelines to team composition and building a great career, among many other things. How do you define your product strategy?
Bain Public
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
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.
Nulab
APRIL 3, 2019
This time, our meetup theme was “Product Management, Strategy & Leadership” and it was a great pleasure for us to host our invited speakers: Jay Fong, Product Strategy Lead ( honestbee Singapore ). Mike Dickinson, Chief Product Officer ( Xendit ). Jay’s talk covers how startups and organizations can leverage on data analytics to enhance their understanding of users and build customer-centric products.
Mind the Product
MAY 8, 2019
Melissa Perri is the product manager’s product manager – she’s able to do the job, explain it, and teach you how to do it better. So when we got her on the line, we covered everything… including Japanese deployment strategies, Marmite and peanut butter, product leadership and team organisation, how companies scale, how to pick the right environment for you, and even her new book, Escaping the Build Trap.
The Product Coalition
JANUARY 13, 2021
Strategic product thinking is hard. Especially when done as an afterthought - when the product is already in the market?—?it These four components are the market, the problem, the solution, and the product itself. Finally, make sure to conduct product validation once you’re done.
Mind the Product
JUNE 9, 2020
The post Making Better Predictions – Margaret Heffernan on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. Chat to us on Twitter or in our dedicated Mind the Product #podcast Slack channel. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers.
Mind the Product
MAY 27, 2019
At ProductTank Montevideo (Mvd) we celebrated World Product Day earlier this month with a presentation from an awesome product leader, VP of Product Strategy at Rootstrap, Neville Reeves. Neville took us through how he used new mental structures to change the status quo of the company and looked at how you can rethink an organization as a product itself. Presenting the solution, he said: “This is organization as a product.”
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