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.    Product management malpractice.    Stymied. 

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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. We knew our market inside and out. Back to the dilemma?—?As

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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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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. As a product strategist, you are the coach for your athletes?—?err err I mean product team, as they execute. Objectives and Key Results.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Why a Product Strategy Process Matters. An effective product strategy process should ensure that a valid product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are always available—that a shared and valid approach to achieving product success is available at anytime, as the picture below illustrates.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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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. Sound familiar?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How do product management and marketing teams work together to build successful products? TL;DR Product managers define the overall product direction and oversee the entire product lifecycle. Product marketing sits between product development and the market.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Hold Regular Product Strategy Reviews. A product strategy , like any other plan, is subject to change. How changeable your strategy is, depends on your product’s life cycle stage. As long as your product hasn’t reached product-market fit, the strategy is usually volatile.

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Userpilot

JULY 31, 2023

What does a product marketing manager (PMM) do? This is the question on the lips of many marketing professionals browsing through opportunities at tech companies. Chances are you already know their broad responsibility is to develop and implement a marketing strategy roadmap for a specific product.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The roadmap guides and informs everyone involved with the product from ideation to market. Using Your Product Strategy and Product Vision to Plan Your Roadmap. Product strategies must be rooted in the overall vision of the company and product. 6 Roadmapping Best Practices.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 7, 2021

But as Brown notes, this could result in “dreaming up alluring but essentially meaningless products destined for the local landfill—persuading people … ‘to buy things they don’t need with money they don’t have to impress neighbours who don’t care.’” But it’s even better to use them when you make strategic product decisions.

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Innovatemap

JUNE 27, 2023

There are so many educators who played a meaningful role in my journey to becoming a product marketer,” said Maria Otteson , Senior Product Marketer. But before any product can go to market, you must define your positioning. The design process — iterate, get feedback, iterate again.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In most B2B organizations, it’s more the exception than the rule that customer success managers inherit accounts where they’re in a position to play offense because the customer is thrilled with your products. Let’s dream for just a minute. Economic buyers are thrilled with the partnership they’ve formed with your organization.

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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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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The static nature of traditional product planning cycles fails to consider quickly-improving technologies and unforeseen changes in the market. Iterative planning enables product management teams to respond quickly to changes in the market and emerging trends. Firstly, you want to review your product vision.

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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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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Be Prepared to Look after People, Not Products. When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. 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. Carefully Plan the Career Step.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

The spectrum of roles in product management is broad, ranging from highly specialised to more generalist positions. There’s a clear distinction between technical and business-oriented roles, as well as between those focused on B2C and B2B markets. Customers expect the product to be customised to their needs. For example.

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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. Drives product success.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

Effective KPIs help you understand if your product is creating the desired value for the users, the customers, and the business. Without KPIs, you end up guessing how well your product is performing. Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs. Step 3: Add Health Indicators.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

While product managers are more customer and business-centric, technical PMs focus on the technical development and implementation of solutions. TPMs are responsible for market and customer research , but their main focus is on satisfying market needs from a technical point of view. Product vision.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 17, 2024

Noam’s example at YouTube shows that reallocating resources away from a draining project, even if it risks your own position, can lead to team success and open new impactful opportunities. The best product managers keep an eye out for potentially successful situations and snap them up.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In the article, we’re looking at the responsibilities of strategic product managers and how they can use data effectively to shape product strategy and deliver delightful experiences to users! Product strategy defines who we are building for, what to build, and how to build it. What is product strategy?

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Roman Pichler

MAY 3, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Make Time to Keep up with Technology Trends As new technologies come and go, it’s important for you—the person in charge of the product—to stay on top of the developments. This will not only benefit your product. It will also have a positive impact on team morale and productivity.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

How product managers can get market-driven data to make product decisions quickly This episode is sponsored by PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association. PDMA is also the longest-running professional association for product managers, leaders, and innovators, having started in 1976.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Carrying out product discovery involves answering the following questions: What is the specific value the product should create for the users and customers? Which market and market segment should the product address? What makes the product stand out? How might people use the product?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 23, 2020

Since releasing both a webinar and book on the impact of feature-less roadmaps on your product strategy recently, we’ve gotten a lot of questions about why we’re so hostile to including features on product roadmaps. Features have long been the basic unit of measurement that product development teams track. Of course not.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

Improve customer acquisition with positive word-of-mouth. The product management team is primarily responsible for owning the product experience but is supported by the engineering, marketing, and customer success departments. Why is product experience management important? However, they don’t do it all alone.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes. They lack vision and lead nowhere. It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. Strategic value is about aligning features with the company’s vision and long-term goals. A roadmap example.

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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. List any other positives you can think of.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 11, 2023

With that as the backdrop, the integration of those products on to the platform would have been done with a completely different purpose – to support the operational integration of specific customer business processes. Product management has set everyone else up for success.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2024

Our product was evolving rapidly and haphazardly. Facing a company funding deadline, we pivoted to a new market with more potential. And we now had a handful of committed customers in the new market. As a matter of practice, review your vision and product strategy at the same time as you review your roadmap.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2021

At its most basic level, a customer-led product strategy means that your customers are the top priority at all times. Start with the product vision statement, then set out your goals and initiatives. Having your customer service and marketing departments work together is a good way to boost the customer experience.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2018

I’ve realized that people use the words mission, vision and strategy interchangeably. Wanted to jot down some thoughts on my perspectives on this, and the topic of product vision in general - both to solidify my own thinking and in case it can be helpful to anyone reading this. Why does the product or company exist?

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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. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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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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