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(Product) Strategy by Andrew Tokeley

Mind the Product

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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395: Creating business and product strategy – with Sean Kim

Product Innovation Educators

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? 2:31] What is strategy?

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3 Empowerment Levels in Product Management

Roman Pichler

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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My Experience Transitioning From Engineering to Product Leadership

ProductPlan

My Journey Transitioning from Engineering to Product Management. Then, I started gravitating towards product strategy questions, like, “Why am I building products?, I worked with the product leadership to plan out a product strategy. 4 Key Differences in Skills Engineer to Product Manager.

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A Learning Roadmap for Product People

Roman Pichler

For the first two quarters, the area is strategy; for the last two, it is leadership. The first goal is about creating a new strategy, the second one talks about the product life cycle model, the third one covers decision-making, and the last one addresses active listening. Figure 2: A Product Mmgt Skills Model.

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Why Product Strategy is More Often Reactive than Proactive

ProductPlan

If so, chances are you were working without the benefit of a concrete product strategy. Product strategy helps with feeling overwhelmed because it Helps your product team see how your product contributes to your company’s goals. Guides your product decisions. Their product strategy is reactive.

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Backstreet Boys, Zork, and Product Strategy

Gainsight

Two sentences and a blinking cursor was all it took to capture my imagination back when I first started leveling up in the ZORK I text-only video game. . What I love about ZORK I is probably also what led me to become a product manager, my very first software job. . B2B product management has always been strategic.